"They are making the movie theaters lose, the employees, the Lebanese economy ... What did they get out of this?" The Israeli actress also appeared in the movie "Batman v Superman" and in sequels of "Fast and Furious", all of which played in Lebanese theaters. Idriss, whose group had unsuccessfully campaigned to stop "Batman v Superman" last year, described the ban as "a victory". The 2006 war killed around 160 Israelis, most of them troops fighting inside Lebanon, while 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, died in Israel's military barrages. A UN-monitored ceasefire has largely held since the 2006 war, which also displaced a million people in Lebanon and nearly 500,000 in Israel.

Source: bd News24 May 31, 2017 19:41 UTC