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Page last updated at 16:11 GMT, Thursday, 2 July 2009 17:11 UK

Palestinian animation of breast cancer battle

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Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer.

In this climactic scene in Fatenah, a new Palestinian animation, the heroine flunks the security check and is not allowed to enter Israel for treatment.

The 30-minute film is inspired by the story of a Gazan woman whose battle against breast cancer included fighting inept Palestinian doctors and indifferent Israeli soldiers.

It was documented in a report by the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights after she died in 2004.

Director Ahmad Habash said he used animation to make the grim subject more appealing.

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