Iran ready to make film on Gaza 22-day war

TEHRAN,Jan.31(MNA) – Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini announced that Iran is ready to make a movie about the 22-day resistance of the Gazans against the Zionist regime. In 2009, in the course of the 22 days Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, a total of 1,434 Palestinians were killed. Of these, 235 were combatants. The vast majority of the dead however, were civilians and non-combatants. Hosseini paid a visit to the Palestinian Minister of Youth and Sport Mohammed Ibrahim Al Madhoun Sunday morning in Tehran and stressed on cultural affinities between the two countries. He pointed to the Iranian film “33 Days”, a film directed by Jamal Shurjeh on the Israeli 33-Day War of 2006 against Lebanon, and said that Iran aims to make another joint film with Palestine about the 22 days of resistance by Gaza’s people. Hosseini also announced that Iran is ready to equip schools in Gaza and also hold side programs for schoolchildren including screening movies. “We hope that Persian language courses will be held in different cities of Palestine in the foreseeable future and we are ready to host university students for further academic education in Iran,” he said. After that, Al-Madhoun expressed his pleasure over meeting the Iranian minister of culture after a long time. “Iran is the only country that supports Palestine, unlike other countries having difficulties, and actually helps Palestinians,” he said. He welcomed making a film on the 22-day war saying that it should be registered in history, adding that culture is not a form of entertainment. “There are cultural and artistic developments in these cultural activities, especially cinema in Iran, and we expect to have more artistic cooperation between our countries,” he added.