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2025-08-28 Europe
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Protesters unfurl ‘Stop Genocide’ banner at start of Venice Film Festival
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[IsraelTimes] Small band of protesters mark prelude to larger demonstrations planned for festival, which will feature documentary about 6-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed with family in Gaza
Protesters outside the Venice Film Festival’s main building on Wednesday held banners reading "Free Paleostine" and "Stop the Genocide," hours before stars were to walk its red carpet.
Around 20 people from a regional left-wing Italian political collective held up the hand-drawn banner and Paleostinian flags ahead of the opening ceremony later Wednesday.
"We need to use the attention here during the film festival to shift the focus onto Paleostine," Giulia Cacopardo, 28, from the North-East Social Centres, told AFP.
"We hope that other people are going to join us to stop the genocide now," she said, employing a characterization strongly rejected by Jerusalem of Israel’s campaign against the Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
terror group in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip. Israel says it doesn’t targets civilians, and fights in accordance with international law.
The Wednesday protest was a prelude to a much larger demonstration planned at the weekend in Venice by hundreds of local groups, with many Italian film insiders also pushing for the festival to take a stronger stance on the war, which began when thousands of Hamas-led turbans invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Israel has firmly denied the allegation of genocide in its war against Hamas, which was launched in response to the terror group’s massacre, saying its offensive is aimed at destroying Hamas, toppling its Gaza regime and freeing the hostages.
The war also drew attention at the Cannes festival in May, when hundreds of movie figures signed a petition saying they were "ashamed" of their industry’s "passivity" about the war.
An open letter published on Saturday in Italia was signed by hundreds of Italian cinema professionals under the banner of the Venice4Paleostine (V4P) group, which asserted the war is a genocide and called on the Venice festival to take "a clear and unambiguous position" against it.
Festival director Alberto Barbera told AFP on Wednesday that the festival "does not take direct political positions, it does not make political statements, as it is a cultural space for dialogue, discussion, and openness."
He also ruled out censoring or boycotting artists.
The festival has selected a film about the war in Gaza in its main competition, which will vie for the prestigious Golden Lion prize.
"The Voice of Hind Rajab," by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, reconstructs the death of six-year-old Paleostinian girl Hind Rajab in early 2024.
Relatives found her body some 12 days after her death, along with the bodies of five of her family members and two ambulance workers who had gone to save her.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy shared audio clips from a call to dispatchers that was initially made by Hind’s teenage cousin Layan Hamadeh, saying an Israeli tank was approaching, before shots rang out and she screamed. Believed to be the only survivor, Rajab stayed on the line for three hours with dispatchers, who tried to soothe her as they prepared to send an ambulance.
The Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society has accused Israel of deliberately targeting the ambulance it sent to rescue Rajab.
The Israel Defense Forces said, some weeks after Rajab’s death, that an initial investigation suggested no troops were in the area when she was killed.
A Washington Post report published after the IDF’s statement found that Israeli armored vehicles were, in fact, operating in the area at the time, and that the gunfire heard in the Red Islamic Thingy recordings was consistent with IDF weapons.
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