Motaz Malhees, who plays a call center operator desperately trying to help 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab as she’s trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, revealed on Thursday that he is unable to represent the film at the awards due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Palestine.
“Three days left to the Oscars. Our film ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ is nominated for an Academy Award. I had the honor of playing one of the lead roles in a story the world needed to hear. But I will not be there,” Malhees wrote on Instagram. “I am not allowed to enter the United States because of my Palestinian citizenship.”
Malhees continued, “It hurts.
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