'Our children's blood isn't worthless - this crosses a red line'

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Bereaved families from the Choosing Life Forum faced off today against a handful of artists who came to protest outside Israel's national lottery, Mifal HaPayis, over the lottery's decision to pull its funding for the winning film at the DocAviv film festival.

Mifal HaPayis' decision to halt its funding of the prize came following public protests from bereaved families and members of Mifal HaPayis over the 150,000 NIS prize set to be awarded to this year's winning film that lauded the work of terrorist-defending attorney Lea Tsemel.

Tsemel has gained notoriety for her persistent defense of terrorists with blood on their hands, including dozens of Hamas terrorists and Abdel Aziz Salha, who was pictured in the infamous photograph waving his blood-soaked hands after the lynching of two IDF soldiers in Ramallah in 2000.

The bereaved families dipped their hands in red paint and waved them in the air symbolizing the lynch, and held signs with a quote from Tsemel: "What lynch? As if you could really call it that."

Mifal HaPayis, a national institution in Israel, enjoys a wide array of government benefits, including an exemption from paying income tax on its revenues.