Rally marks year since theatre director’s murder

Demonstrators gathered in central Ramallah yesterday to mark a year since the murder of Israeli-Palestinian theatre director Juliano Mer-Khamis, an AFP correspondent said. Around 100 people gathered outside the Muqataa presidential compound to remember 52-year-old Mer-Khamis, who was shot dead on April 4, 2011 by an unknown gunman as he drove through Jenin refugee camp not far from the Freedom Theatre which he directed. Most of the demonstrators were Arab Israelis, although there were several foreigners among them, holding up pictures of the slain activist alongside banners reading: “You can take my life but you can’t take my soul.”