2023-11-20 19:43:24
By VM
Published 9 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
The 59-year-old actress will be starring in Noé Debré’s new film, The Last of the Jews, which will be released on January 24. LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP
The 59-year-old director and actress gave a long interview to Le Parisien and spoke about the misfortunes that struck her family, in a context of rare violence in the war between Israel and Hamas.
«I don’t want to let hatred win“. In an interview given on Sunday au Parisian actress and director Agnes Jaoui spoke about the devastation caused by the war between Israel and Hamas within her family. Carmela Dan, 80, and her 13-year-old granddaughter Noya Dan, belonging to Agnès Jaoui’s paternal family, died in Hamas attacks on October 7. In the columns of the Ile-de-France media, the 59-year-old actress explains that the bodies of her loved ones were found a few days later, “thanks to a drone which made it possible to identify them».
«It was Hamas’ aim to assassinate precisely those who are for peace» deplores Agnès Jaoui, whose family lived on a kibbutz “very left-wing and pacifist, working with the Palestinians and working for peace“. She also explains having learned, in the days following the massacre, of the disappearance of five other members of her father’s family, “kidnapped at Kibbutz Nir Oz on the Gaza border».
A state of vulnerability that I had never known
Agnes Jaoui
In these particularly turbulent times, Agnès Jaoui admits to being in a state of intense fragility. The director of Tastes of others talks about “a state of vulnerability (that she had) never known, of infinite sadness“. Despite this, she continues to advocate a discourse of peace and solidarity, and does not wish “let hatred win».
«I see everyone blaming each other, with as much savagery as ignorance», Testifies the actress. “Myself, while recounting the tragedies my family is experiencing, I hear the criticism: the Palestinians are also dying and their homes are destroyed, I am deeply hurt by this.».
Regarding Sunday’s march, Agnès Jaoui was not able to go there due to lack of schedule, but she said:support the initiative” as well as “the idea that we can, together, seek solutions“. Optimistic, Agnès Jaoui also wants to believe in better days. “There are people of common sense, moderate, who work for peace (…) they are the ones who will make the world of tomorrow» hopes the filmmaker, before launching a final appeal concerning the question of the hostages: “Don’t abandon them. Continue to make them exist, as human beings, not just numbers» she concludes.
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