Street art campaign brightens Palestinian refugee camp
The “Better Gaza” campaign aims to bring color and cheer to the Al-Shati camp, home to some 82,000 Palestinian refugees.
- Palestinian children look out of a house painted by Palestinian artists in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on December 19, 2015. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
- In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 photo, a Palestinian boy sits atop a wall with an elephant painting in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. A group of two dozen artists has painted the walls, doorsteps and facades of all the houses along a one-mile-long (1.5 kilometer-long) edge of the camp, including in the area where Hamas chief Ismail Haniya lives. Arabic at left reads: “Osama Sabeeta.” (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- A Palestinian man and a boy stand in front of a house painted by Palestinian artists in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on December 19, 2015. (AFP Photo/Mahmud )
- A Palestinian boy sits outside his family house that was painted by Palestinian artists in the al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. More than 30 artists took part in the “Gaza More Beautiful” project funded by Padico Holding, a leading investment and development company in the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- A Palestinian family sit outside their house painted by Palestinian artists in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 12, 2015, as more than 30 artists take part in a project funded by Padico holding, a limited public shareholding company traded on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
- A Palestinian woman walks past a house painted by Palestinian artists in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on December 19, 2015. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
- In this Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo, a Palestinian boy climbs on a painted wall in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. A group of two dozen artists has painted the walls, doorsteps and facades of all the houses along a one-mile-long (1.5 kilometer-long) edge of the camp, including in the area where Hamas chief Ismail Haniya lives. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- In this Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo, Palestinian boys run by a painted house in the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. Shati has always been a symbol of poverty, a grey concrete jungle with 87,000 people packed into one fifth of a square mile (half a square kilometer). But now, overlooking the sewage-contaminated Mediterranean beachfront, the campís houses are covered in vibrant colors. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- In this Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo, a Palestinian walk past a painted house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Shatihas always been a symbol of poverty, a grey concrete jungle with 87,000 people packed into one fifth of a square mile (half a square kilometer). But now, overlooking the sewage-contaminated Mediterranean beachfront, the campís houses are covered in vibrant colors. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 photo, Palestinian children stand in a doorway of of their home painted by artists in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. ìThey cleaned the camp. I came here and they were coloring, and I was like, ëWhatís this?í I did not recognize the area,î said Karam Abdel-Bari, an unemployed camp resident. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- In this Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo, a Palestinian boy runs by a painted house in the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. A group of two dozen artists has painted the walls, doorsteps and facades of all the houses along a one-mile-long (1.5 kilometer-long) edge of the camp, including in the area where Hamas chief Ismail Haniya lives.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- In this Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo, a Palestinian boy hangs on a door of his home that was painted by artists in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. ìItís a voluntary work to bring joy and happiness for our families and children in the Shati camp,î said Mohammed Dahman, a painter who worked for a month on the project. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- In this Saturday Dec. 19, 2015 photo, a Palestinian woman hangs laundry in front of her painted house in the Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. A group of Palestinian artists have just completed painting the walls, doorsteps and facades of all the houses on the one-mile-long (1.5 kilometer-long) western edge of the camp, which was a gray concrete symbol of poverty of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- A Palestinian child looks of a building painted by Palestinian artists in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 12, 2015, as more than 30 artists take part in a project funded by Padico holding, a limited public shareholding company traded on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
- Palestinian artists paint the facade of a house in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 12, 2015, as they take part in a project with more than 30 artists funded by Padico holding, a limited public shareholding company traded on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
- A Palestinian artist paints the facade of a house in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 12, 2015, as he takes part in a project with more than 30 artists funded by Padico holding, a limited public shareholding company traded on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
- A Palestinian artist paints houses in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 12, 2015, as he takes part in a project with more than 30 artists funded by Padico holding, a limited public shareholding company traded on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
- A Palestinian artist paints the facade of a house in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, on November 12, 2015, as he takes part in a project with more than 30 artists funded by Padico holding, a limited public shareholding company traded on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)