Masked gunmen have fired at close range to kill the Israeli actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis in the Palestinian city of Jenin. Mer-Kamis, 53, was a known political activist and advocate for Palestinian rights, who lived halfway between Haifa, Israel, and Jenin. At the time of his death was going to call the Liberty Theatre, which he founded in 2006, following the family trail in the Jenin refugee camp.
Her mother, Arna Mer, also pro-Palestinian activist, married to a Palestinian Christian leader of the Communist Party set up a theater group for children of Jenin, a city known for its violent incursions by the Israeli army often considered suicide Quarry Palestinians. The theater was founded by their mother was destroyed by Israeli tanks and years later, Juliano Mer-Khamis put it back up with Zakaria Zubeidi, a former militant of the Brigades of the Martyrs of Al Aqsa, who gave up their weapons in exchange for amnesty.
The Freedom Theatre has since been the scene of numerous plays, but also served as a meeting of international activists advocates of the Palestinians. Police in Jenin has indicated that they have launched an investigation to find the culprits. Mer-Khamis had received threats in the past and the theater had been burned in a couple of occasions.
Part of the programming and the troupe who paraded through the Liberty Theater was not liked by local extremist sectors. Also suspicious of a project put in place by an Israeli and, thinking, diverts attention from the younger of the struggle against the occupation. Michael Handesaltz, theater critic for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was considered to Mer-Kahmis "a great actor and an extraordinary human being whose life story is part of the tragic reality of this country." 
Her mother, Arna Mer, also pro-Palestinian activist, married to a Palestinian Christian leader of the Communist Party set up a theater group for children of Jenin, a city known for its violent incursions by the Israeli army often considered suicide Quarry Palestinians. The theater was founded by their mother was destroyed by Israeli tanks and years later, Juliano Mer-Khamis put it back up with Zakaria Zubeidi, a former militant of the Brigades of the Martyrs of Al Aqsa, who gave up their weapons in exchange for amnesty.
The Freedom Theatre has since been the scene of numerous plays, but also served as a meeting of international activists advocates of the Palestinians. Police in Jenin has indicated that they have launched an investigation to find the culprits. Mer-Khamis had received threats in the past and the theater had been burned in a couple of occasions.
Part of the programming and the troupe who paraded through the Liberty Theater was not liked by local extremist sectors. Also suspicious of a project put in place by an Israeli and, thinking, diverts attention from the younger of the struggle against the occupation. Michael Handesaltz, theater critic for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was considered to Mer-Kahmis "a great actor and an extraordinary human being whose life story is part of the tragic reality of this country."
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