Palestinian scriptwriter and film producer Majed Jendiyeh dies

Palestinian scriptwriter and film producer Majed Jendiyeh passed away on Sunday at the age of 50, Quds Press reported.

Jendiyeh, who was born in 1967 in Gaza and studied film production in Belin in 1995, produced several Palestinian films and series, most of them about the Palestinian resistance.

In 2009 he produced a film about the life of Imad Aqel, the icon of the Palestinian resistance during the first Palestinian Intifada. Israeli assassinated Aqel in 1993 in Al-Sheja’ia, Jendiyeh’s birthplace.

In 2013 Jendiyeh started a new film about the capture of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on the eastern borders of Gaza.

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Twenty-eight Palestinian actors and 12 Palestinian actresses will play on the film, which sheds light on the suffering of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails.

It also reflects how the Palestinian resistance was pushed to capture Shalit in order to forge a prisoner swap that ends the suffering of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails.

Deputy Palestinian Minister of Culture Anwar Al-Bar’awi said that Jediyeh’s death is a “big loss for the Palestinian art [scene],” noting that he was one of the most prominent scriptwriters who highlighted Israeli oppression against the Palestinians.