Summary
Guerrilla graffiti artist who went to Gaza in February 2015, created three pieces indicting Israel’s most recent assault, and released the satirical tourist promotional video Welcome to Gaza (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.216-219).
Details
- The video’s captions include “Well away from the tourist track”, “(Access is via a network of illegal tunnels)”, “The locals like it so much they never leave” and “(Because they’re not allowed to)” (PDF p.216).
- Its pieces are a weeping Niobe on a demolished building’s standing wall, a surveillance tower turned into an amusement park swing, and a cat playing with coiled debris; a Palestinian man in the video comments: “The cat found something to play with. But what about our children?” (PDF p.217).
- Banksy explained the cat as commentary on internet audiences who only look at pictures of kittens; the Gaza Parkour Team answered the video with After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza (PDF p.219).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Gaza, Gaza Parkour Team, Solidarity Tourism