Mohammad Bakri, acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker, passed away at 72

Exam-focused facts from the 27 December 2025 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Mohammad Bakri died at Galilee Medical Centre in Nahariya after suffering from heart and lung problems.
He was best known for his 2002 documentary Jenin, Jenin, which captured testimonies from Palestinian residents following an Israeli military operation.
Israeli authorities banned the documentary from screening in 2021, and the Supreme Court upheld the prohibition in 2022.
Bakri was born in 1953 in the Galilee village of Bi’ina and studied Arabic literature and theatre at Tel Aviv University.
He made his film debut at age 30 in Costa-Gavras’s Hanna K, playing a Palestinian refugee.