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26 Oct, 2014

Bloodied and crumbling sculptures installed in destroyed Gaza neighbourhood – The Independent

Broken, crumbling and splattered with “blood”, these haunting sculptures have been made by an artist in Gaza to show the pain of conflict.

The 50-day war between Israel and Hamas earlier this year left more than 2,200 people dead and razed thousands of homes in the narrow strip to the ground.

Most of the casualties were civilians, including hundreds of children, according to the UN, reflected in artist Iyad Sabbah’s depiction of a family.

The sculptor, who is Palestinian and lives and works in Gaza, created them using mud and waste materials found in bombsites.

In an installation entitled Worn Out, the family of sculptures including a small child and a baby appear to move through debris and rubble and past shelled homes.

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