KUWAIT CITY (MEMO) – Kuwait has banned a new movie adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunnit “Death on the Nile” starring Zionist actress Gal Gadot who is known for her support of the occupying regime’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Kuwaiti Ministry of Information spokesperson, Anouar Murad, confirmed to AFP that the movie has been banned.
Kuwait’s Al-Qabas newspaper said the decision came in response to demands on social media to ban the movie.
Social media users pointed out Gadot’s praise of the occupying regime’s army and her criticism of the Palestinian resistance during the 2014 war on Gaza which left 2,251 Palestinian civilians dead including 551 children.
The Gaza Strip, home to some two million people, has been under a blockade imposed by the occupying regime for over 14 years. The tight blockade has caused a sharp decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
The occupying regime has also launched three major wars on Gaza since 2008.
Kuwait has previously banned ‘Wonder Woman’ which starred the same actress.
The Persian Gulf state has refused to normalize ties with the occupying regime and its officials have publicly criticized the occupation regime’s actions against Palestinians.
In May last year, Kuwait’s National Assembly unanimously approved bills that outlaw any deals or normalization of ties with the occupying regime.
On August 18, 2020, 37 Kuwaiti lawmakers called on their government to reject a normalization deal between the Zionist regime and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Anti-Israeli sentiments run high in Kuwait. A poll conducted in 2019 by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an American think tank, showed that 85 percent of Kuwaitis oppose normalizing ties with the regime.
Last month, Kuwaitis honored 14-yar-old Muhammad al-Awadi, a tennis player who withdrew from the Dubai Tennis Championships U-14 because he was due to face a Zionist opponent.
Pictures of al-Awadi were posted on street billboards with “Thank you, hero” written on them.