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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Kamal Taha

Portraits Of Pain: Smuggled Palestinian Art Shows Trauma Of Gaza

A close-up view of a painting at the Gaza exhibition (Credit: AFP)

When war erupted in Gaza, Palestinian artists had only one way to share their work expressing the harrowing reality of the conflict: having it smuggled out of the besieged territory.

For six months, they handed over paintings and other artworks to people leaving Gaza through its Rafah border crossing with Egypt until Israeli ground forces closed it in May when they took control of the frontier.

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