‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

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Veteran Israeli director Amos Gitai's documentary "The Road to Jericho" highlights the "school of tires" in the Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar, which faces demolition threats in the occupied West Bank. Gitai describes the current situation as the worst he has known, marked by violence and savagery, and reflects on the loss of dialogue following Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.

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The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West BankThe Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar sits off dust-blown Highway-1, between Jerusalem and Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the village centre is the “school of tires”, a fragile construction of rubber, wood and adobe which is attended by around 300 Bedouin boys and girls.

‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

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