Netflix launches a 'Palestinian Stories' collection featuring award-winning films

The streaming service launched the"Palestinian Stories" collection, featuring 32 award-winning films created by Palestinians or about Palestinian stories, on October 14, the company said in a press release.

The filmmaker is referring to recent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians this summer that escalated rapidly into one of the worst rounds of violence between the two sides in the last several years. Nayfeh wrote and directed"The Crossing," a 10-minute short film included in the collection. The film is based on the true story that happened to him and his siblings at an Israeli checkpoint while they were trying to visit their sick grandfather, who lived on the other side of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory.

As Palestinian demonstrators threw rocks at police, Israeli forces entered the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site, firing stun grenades at protesters and worshipers. But Nayfeh says he believes strongly in the power of storytelling, and the launch of Netflix's"Palestinian Stories" collection brings him"a lot of hope."

"The diversification of our content sits close to my heart as Netflix works to become the home of Arabic Cinema, a place where anyone in the world can access great Arab stories," Nuha El Tayeb, the director of content acquisitions, MENAT at Netflix, said in a press release.

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