In this February 27, 2015 photo, a Palestinian woman works with her children near a mural of a playful-looking kitten painted by British street graffiti artist Banksy is seen on a wall destroyed in the 2014 Gaza war, at Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. In a short film posted on his website, he appears to have sneaked into Gaza through an underground tunnel from Egypt. Photo: AP
In this February 27, 2015 photo, Palestinian children walk next to a mural of children using an Israeli Army watch tower as a carnival ride, painted by British street graffiti artist Banksy, on the main road in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: AP
In this February 26, 2015 photo, a Palestinian girl looks on as a mural of a playful-looking kitten, painted by British street artist Banksy, is seen on the remains of a house that was destroyed by Israeli shelling during the 2014 Gaza war, at Biet Hanoun in Gaza Strip. “A local man came up and said ‘Please — what does this mean?’ I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website – but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens,” the arists says in commentary posted in his site. Photo: Reuters
In this February 27, 2015 photo, a mural of children using an Israeli Army watch tower as a swing ride, painted by British street graffiti artist Banksy, is seen on a wall at the main road in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. “Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day,” says commentary in Banksy’s site. Photo: AP
Screengrab from a short film posted by British street graffiti artist Banksy in his site shows him drawing a Greek goddess cowering against a remaining concrete slab of a destroyed structure.
In this screengrab from a short film posted by British street graffiti artist Banksy in his site shows two men looking at the artist’s drawing of a Greek goddess cowering against a remaining concrete slab of a destroyed structure in Gaza Strip.