Britain's Banksy takes aim at Gaza's privations in mini-video

posted on: Feb 27, 2015

The eminent but anonymous British street artist known as Banksy has posted a mini-documentary on his banksy.co.uk site showing squalid conditions in Gaza six months after the end of the war between the enclave’s Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel.

Israel was criticised over the large number of Palestinian civilian deaths during the conflict, including by its main ally the United States. Over 2,100 Palestinians were killed during the fighting, most of them civilians and many of them children, while 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians were killed.

The two-minute documentary was posted on Thursday and like many of Banksy’s murals and other art is politically charged and whimsical at the same time. It starts off with a view of clouds from an airplane window while text on the screen says “Make this the year you discover a new destination”.

That destination is Gaza, which the film, using mostly text rather than narration, says is “watched over by friendly neighbours” – meaning Israel which patrols the sea and land borders apart from a closed crossing with Egypt. The result is Gaza can only be entered through one of the tunnels shown.

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com