“I wanted to draw things that would make people happy, like things about childhood and beautiful scenery, as I did in my early days. I tried to draw them, but I couldn’t. Instead, what I drew were painful, distressing images that describe our current situation.”
Mennatullah Hamouda once had plans to open a training centre for artists.
Now she uses chalk and charcoal on the walls of a school in Gaza where she shelters with her family, documenting the pain and suffering around her.
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