The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is set to take center stage at the upcoming 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival .

Hundreds of local political and grassroot groups announced on Monday that they would be joining a march protesting Israel ’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, on the main Santa Maria Elisabetta avenue on August 30.

“At a time when the eyes of the world will be on Venice and the Film Festival, we have a duty to make the voices of all those who are outraged and rebelling heard: let us therefore turn the spotlight of the Festival on Palestine ,” the bodies said in a statement.

“The genocide is there for all to see. The Israeli army in Gaza is massacring the Palestinian civilian population, targeting hospitals, refugee camps, foo

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