Mark Ruffalo Calls For Ceasefire In Gaza: “We’re Not Going To Bomb Our Way To Peace” – DGA Awards
deadline.comMark Ruffalo is calling for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. At the DGA awards in Beverly Hills on Saturday night he told Deadline the pins on his lapel represented “peace lillies and Artists for Ceasefire”.
Ruffalo said that Artists for Ceasefire is “calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. There are 1,200 Israelis dead and 2,700 Palestinians,” he continued. “We’ve come to understand this bombing isn’t working, we’re not going to bomb our way to peace, and all we’re saying is, what’s wrong with giving a ceasefire a chance?
We have a million refugees on the border of Rafah right now, who are looking at another bombing surge, and we have 400,000 people starving to death right now, without any humanitarian aid being able to get in there.
So we’re asking the leaders of the world, especially President Biden, to demand a ceasefire, a lasting ceasefire, and give peace a chance instead of just a continued bombing, the escalation of violence and what will soon become a regional war that America will be dragged into.” Ruffalo explained he had no plans to make a statement during the awards ceremony itself since, he said, “it’s really for Yorgos tonight.” Ruffalo is set to present the Feature Film Nomination to his Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos.
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