The American film "Death on the Nile", adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie and featuring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, has been banned from broadcasting in Kuwait, the country's authorities said on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information, Anouar Mourad, confirmed information from the local press according to which the film directed by Kenneth Branagh, which will soon be released in several countries, will not be authorized in theaters in Kuwait, without explain the reason for the ban.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, this decision would have been taken after calls for a boycott launched on social networks by Internet users, the heroine of the film Gal Gadot having defended the murderous offensive of Israel against the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in the summer of 2014. During this devastating war - which resulted in the death of at least 2,251 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and left 74 dead on the Israeli side, mainly soldiers - Gal Gadot had greeted on Facebook the Israeli army and attacked the ruling Hamas in Gaza.
In support of the Palestinian cause, Kuwait still refuses normalization with Israel, unlike several Arab countries in the region which have signed agreements with the Jewish state in recent years.
The "Abraham Accords" have reshuffled the cards between Israel and the Arab countries
On September 15, 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain became the first Gulf Arab countries to publicly normalize their relations with Israel, at the instigation of Washington.
These “Abraham Accords” had also resulted in similar pacts with Morocco and Sudan.
They have been denounced by the Palestinians as a "treason", the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict having long remained a prerequisite for any normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel.
In May 2021, Kuwait summoned the Czech ambassador who expressed on social media his support for Israel during the deadly clashes between the Jewish state and Hamas in Gaza.
He eventually apologized.