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(NewsNation) — A French-Israeli filmmaker says the planetary effect to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack connected Israel, peculiarly pro-Palestinian demonstrations astatine American universities, compelled him to make a documentary astir the conflict.
Pierre Rehov, speaking from Ashdod, Israel, said helium was disturbed by reactions that seemed to excuse the attack.
"I was expecting each cities successful the world, each people, everybody successful the streets of Washington and Paris with T-shirts saying 'I'm Israel,'" Rehov said Sunday connected "NewsNation Prime." "It was precisely the opposite."
Rehov said helium began moving connected the documentary, titled "Pogroms," aft United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made comments that Rehov felt inappropriately connected Hamas' actions to the Palestinian situation.
The filmmaker experienced the onslaught firsthand, awakening to aerial raid sirens astatine 6:30 a.m. connected Oct. 7. He recalled receiving a informing from a person to fastener his doors and windows due to the fact that "Palestinians are invading Israel."
Rehov said helium was incapable to scope his wife, who was staying person to the Gaza border, for 2 hours.
The documentary aims to explicate the governmental and humanities inheritance of the conflict, Rehov said. About 100 hostages stay successful Hamas custody 1 twelvemonth aft the attack.
What to know: The Israel-Hamas war
Protests person been taking spot crossed the world since the opening of the Israel-Hamas war which erupted after Hamas and Islamic Jihad, 2 militant groups backed by Iran, carried retired a devastating cross-border onslaught connected Oct. 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 radical successful Israel and kidnapped 250 others.
The Israeli violative successful Gaza has caused wide devastation and killed thousands, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
American officials and Israeli leaders are striving to discourage Iran and different neighboring countries from further escalating tensions successful the region. However, the Palestinian contented is simply a pulverization keg among the Arab populace who judge that the Palestinians person been denied the promised two-state solution outlined successful the Oslo Accords decades ago.
Hamas said its onslaught was successful effect to the continued Israeli concern of the Palestinian territories, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the enlargement of amerciable Israeli settlements, threats to the presumption of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the plight of Palestinian refugees and prisoners.
On the Israeli side, there’s immense choler and a beardown propulsion to bring the remaining hostages back, a extremity Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is committed to achieving done this subject offensive.
