PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - A theater director killed in Jenin

The Palestinian-Israeli actor Juliano Mer-Khamis, director and activist for peace, well known, was killed April 4 in Jenin, the Israeli newspaper ad. A masked person was shot five times on the actor, who was in his car, the newspaper said. Juliano Mer-Khamis ran the Freedom Theatre, founded by his mother, Arna Mer, as the Theatre of stones during the first Intifada and located in the Jenin refugee camp.

Destroyed in 2002 by the Israeli army, the theater was reopened in 2006.

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