Skip next section Film on last moments of Palestinian girl’s life in contention for Golden Lion
09/06/2025September 6, 2025
Film on last moments of Palestinian girl’s life in contention for Golden Lion
The 82nd wraps up on Saturday evening with the anticipated announcement of the awards still to come.
The festival’s jury, led by director Alexander Payne, is set to announce the top awards.
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” by French-Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania is in contention for a coveted Golden Lion award.
The film tells the story of the last moments in the life of a Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab in the Gaza Strip, who died at the age of 5.
Rajab was killed by Israeli forces while fleeing Gaza City last year.
The film recontructs Rajab’s last moments with the narrative anchored in real emergency call recordings, providing an intimate and harrowing portrayal of the events
When it premiered on Wednesday, it received 23 minutes of applause.
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09/06/2025September 6, 2025
Gaza City residents urged to evacuate to ‘humanitarian zone’
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a notice to Palestinians living in Gaza City to leave and head towards a “humanitarian zone” in Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, to the south.
“Take this opportunity to move early to the (Al-Mawasi) humanitarian zone and join the thousands of people who have already gone there,” said IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee.
The IDF said there were field hospitals, water pipelines and desalination facilities, food and medicine at the humanitarian zone.
The announcement comes as Israel continues its offensive to capture the Palestinian territory’s largest city by pre-war population after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to capture it.
Netanyahu says the city is a Hamas stronghold and capturing it is necessary to defeat the Palestinian Islamist militants who led the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel that sparked the ongoing war.
Before the war, around a million people lived in the city. The current offensive threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
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09/06/2025September 6, 2025
Welcome to our coverage
Israel’s military is pushing on with an offensive to capture Gaza City and has urged residents to move to a designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis.
And we’re also following developments from the 82nd Venice Film Festival where a film about the last moments of a Palestinian girl’s life is in the running for a coveted Golden Lion award.
DW brings you the latest on those developments and other major news from on Saturday.
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