The organizers of the Gaza march say “hundreds” to participate
With a curtain on the verge of ascending at the eighty Venice Festival, a press conference was held this morning in front of the main place of the event to promote a march that will be held in LEDO on Saturday, condemning Israel’s treatment for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
At the forefront of Sala Grande, dozens of supporters or so chanted of the Palestinian flags, “Palestine is free, and” stop, stop genocide “before a spokeswoman for Martina Vergano, media members, spoke.
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is scheduled to occupy the lead in the festival.
Hundreds of local political and popular organizations said that they will join “stopping the genocide in Palestine”, which occur on the sidelines of the Meltra and not part of Biennial. Earlier this week, they wrote, “While the eyes of the world will be in Venice and the Film Festival, we have the duty to make the voices of everyone who hears anger and rebel.”
“The appeal has been greatly launched” with “hundreds of signatures from political groups, societies and groups from the Veneto region, but also outside it. That is, hundreds of signatures and approvals, even from the world of cinema and from within the exhibition.”
She said that the intention of the march is “highlighting the Film Festival in the right direction.”
She noted that on Saturday there will be a motor boat leaving from Margerra “to allow even those who do not come from Venice to reach the Film Festival together.”
“There are hundreds of people who have been recorded” and that “there are artists, managers and actors wandering in this direction, so we hope that many of us will be.”
I was asked if it was right for some Israeli artists, directors or personalities to be removed as a sign of the operation, or does the culture should build bridges? ”
Its response: “I think … the institutions must take a position, and it is clear, in this sense, from the archery how the institution chooses to relate to this, what is happening abroad.”
At the end of last week, an open message was signed by hundreds of Italian cinema professionals who gathered under the slogan of Venice4palestine (V4P).
Call at the Venice Film Festival. The Mother’s Authority, Biennale, and the independent parallel divisions of Giornate Degli Autori (previously known as the Basem Venice) and the week of international critics, “to be more courageous and clear in condemning the continuous genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing through Palestine implemented by the Israeli government.”
Biennial and the festival responded to the message in a written statement saying that throughout their history they were always “places of open and sensitive discussion regarding all the most urgent issues facing society and the world.”
As evidence of this, they cited the selection of the main competition this year by Tunisian director Cole Ben Hania Hind Rajab’s voiceThe killing of a six -year -old girl, while her family fled Gaza City in January 2024, as well as From dogs and men By Israeli director Danny Rosenberg, who seized the aftermath of October 7, 2023, for the Orizzonti sidebar in 2024.
As I mentioned the deadline earlier today, the prominent stars in Hollywood Brad Pitt, Joaxin Phoenix, Ronnie Mara, Alvonso Quaron and Jonathan Glazer are among the heavy weights that are left behind. Hind Rajab’s voice Before the first show in the Global Venice next week.
The Venice Film Festival begins this evening, which is six shy weeks of the second anniversary of Hamas terrorist attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
At least 61,000 people living in the Gaza Strip died in the subsequent Israeli military campaign aimed at wiping Hamas and restoring the hostages.
Israel said that the accusations of genocide are “baseless” because the country does not act with “intention”. The leading human rights groups in Israel and doctors for human rights faced this, saying last month that Israel was carrying out a “clear and deliberate attack on civilians to destroy a group.”