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       The artist running Israel’s Venice Biennale pavilion says she won’t
       open it until hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire is reached
       
       By Benjamin Brown, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       7:40 AM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Israel’s representative at Venice’s Biennale exhibition has said
       she won’t unveil the country’s pavilion until a hostage and
       ceasefire deal has been reached .
       
       Artist Ruth Patir said the exhibit in the Italian city “will only
       open when the release of hostages and ceasefire agreement happens” in
       a statement shared on Instagram Tuesday.
       
       Patir said she would raise her voice “with those I stand with in
       their scream, ceasefire now, bring the people back from captivity. We
       can’t take it anymore.”
       
       The Venice Biennale, an eight-month-long international festival and
       culture, is staged every other year, showcasing some of the world’s
       most prominent creatives in one place.
       
       Each year, an artistic director is appointed to curate the central
       exhibit which in many ways sets the tone for the .
       
       A petition signed by more than 23,000 people had recently called for
       Israel to be excluded from the international cultural exhibition, as
       calls for truce and an independently Palestinian state .
       
       Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza on October 7 after the
       militant group Hamas, which governs the strip, killed at least 1,200
       people and abducted more than 250 others.
       
       Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed at least 33,797
       Palestinians and injured another 76,465 people, according to the
       Ministry of Health there. Human Rights Watch and Oxfam have accused�
        “indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks in violation of
       international law” and imposing collective punishments on the
       civilian population.
       
       Patir on Tuesday said that she and commissioners Mira Lapidot and Tamar
       Margalit had become the news in recent weeks rather than the art and
       the exhibition entitled, “(M)otherland.” “If I am given such a
       remarkable stage, I want to make it count,” Patir said, adding that
       she “firmly objected” to cultural boycott but chose to take action
       as she felt there was “no right answer.”
       
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