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Wisam Salsaa, 42, said the nine-room establishment named "The Walled Off Hotel" will officially open on March 11th, but he offered a handful of reporters a tour of the hotel looking directly at the West Bank separation barrier erected by Israel to protect against Palestinian attackers.
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The view (Photo: AFP)
The barrier is heavily decorated by artists, and Banksy has previously painted several murals on a walled segment of it.
The hotel is awash in the trademark satirical work of the mysterious artist.
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Scene recreating signing of Balfour Declaration (Photo: AP)
The highlight is room number three, known as "Banksy's Room," where guests sleep in a king-size bed underneath Banksy's artwork showing a Palestinian and an Israeli in a pillow fight.
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Palestinian and Israeli in pillow fight (Photo: AFP)
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The hotel also features a presidential suite and a museum with the artist's politically-charged work. The cheapest rooms were available from $30 a night.
Banksy has made previous forays into the Palestinian territories.
In one secret visit, he drew a painting of a girl pulled upward by balloons on the barrier facing his current project.
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Last year, he is believed to have sneaked into Gaza to draw four street murals, including one on a metal door that depicted the Greek goddess Niobe cowering against the rubble of a destroyed house.
The painting, titled "Bomb Damage," was drawn on the last remaining part of a two-story house that was destroyed in the 2014 war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.
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Photo: AFP
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Photo: AP
The artist's satirical stencils-rats, kissing policemen, riot police with yellow smiley faces-first appeared on walls in Bristol before spreading to London and then around the world. His artwork comments on war, child poverty and the environment. His identity remains a mystery, but his works have fetched as much as $1.8 million at auctions.