The Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Tunisia announced the cancellation of the 34th session of the “Carthage Film Days” Festival, which was scheduled from October 28 to November 4, in solidarity with the Palestinian people who have been subjected to continuous Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the 7th of the month. The current one.

This festival dedicated to Arab and African directors is a major annual cultural forum in Tunisia.

A statement by the Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs said, “In solidarity with our brotherly Palestinian people, and taking into account the critical humanitarian conditions witnessed in the Gaza Strip and all the occupied Palestinian territories as a result of the brutal Zionist aggression, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs decided to cancel the organization of the 34th session of the Carthage Film Days.”

Several demonstrations were organized in different regions of Tunisia to denounce the occupation forces’ bombing of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths in the hospital courtyard, a large number of whom were children and women.