Premiere of first Hamas-produced cinema movie

Deposed Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haneya (R) honors Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas' senior leader who wrote the scenario of the first Hamas-produced cinema movie in Gaza city, July 17, 2009. Mahmoud Zahar, an Islamic movement hard-liner, wrote the scenario which features the establishment of Hamas military wing in the early 1990s and the life and death of Imad Aqel, the brigades' founder. Senior Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniya, attended the premiere of the movie on Friday.

(Xinhua/Wissam Nassar)