The war in Gaza — which began with the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, in which some 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 250 were taken hostage, and continued for the next two years, during which the Israeli response claimed the lives of approximately 70,000 Palestinians — has largely faded from the news since the adoption of a Gaza peace plan in October that resulted in the freeing of 20 Israeli hostages in return for the release of 2,000 incarcerated Palestinians. But the aforementioned traumatic events are at the center of three very different but worthwhile nonfiction films — Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk , Holding Liat and Coexistence, My Ass! — each of which could land on the best documentary feature Oscar shortlist that will be announced Dec. 16

The war in Gaza —

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