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35.2033</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opened</th><td class="infobox-data">March 3, 2017<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2017-03-03</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://walledoffhotel.com/">walledoffhotel<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Close up of entrance in January 2023" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg/220px-The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg/330px-The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg/440px-The_Walledoff_Hotel_Bethlehem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p><b>The Walled Off Hotel</b> is a boutique hotel in <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestine</a>. It was designed by anonymous London-based artist <a href="/wiki/Banksy" title="Banksy">Banksy</a> alongside other creatives. Established in March 2017, and initially set out to only be a temporary exhibition and a word play on the <a href="/wiki/Waldorf_Astoria_Hotels_%26_Resorts" title="Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts">Waldorf hotel chain</a> name,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the hotel has since attracted nearly 140,000 visitors,<sup id="cite_ref-New_York_Times_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_York_Times-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thanks in part to its location opposite the portion of the <a href="/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_Barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli West Bank Barrier">Israeli West Bank Barrier</a> separating Bethlehem from the holy site of <a href="/wiki/Rachel%27s_Tomb" title="Rachel's Tomb">Rachel's Tomb</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Established on 3 March 2017, the hotel is generally considered to be a follow-up to Banksy's 2015 <a href="/wiki/Dismaland" title="Dismaland">Dismaland</a> project, held for five weeks in <a href="/wiki/Weston-Super-Mare" class="mw-redirect" title="Weston-Super-Mare">Weston-Super-Mare</a> in the South-West of England, making a commentary on life in coastal towns in 21st-century Britain.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The reaction to the hotel as a work of art and social intervention has been mixed, especially given its location and subject matter. Critics have argued that such a building profits off tragedy, and is a case of <a href="/wiki/War_tourism" title="War tourism">war tourism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the topic of Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, Palestinian artist and activist Rana Bishara criticized the initiative for commodifying the Israeli separation wall while the real wall remains a source of oppression for Palestinians. Bishara also expressed concern over the potential dehumanization of socially disadvantaged areas like the West Bank due to "dark tourism" or "tourism of suffering."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, evidence has suggested that the hotel has brought more tourism to areas of the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, in turn raising awareness of the realities of the Palestinians affected by the conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-the_National_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the_National-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Committee_for_Accuracy_in_Middle_East_Reporting_in_America" title="Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America">CAMERA UK</a> denounced a painting in the hotel of <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a> with a sniper’s red dot sight on his head as in support of the <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitic</a> belief of <a href="/wiki/Jewish_deicide" title="Jewish deicide">Jewish deicide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the <a href="/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel">2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel</a>, the Walled Off Hotel announced its closure "for the time being", "due to major developments in the region" <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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