Gaza- Aid Watch Palestine concluded the art exhibition “Gaza Is Not Complete” which went on for two days in the Palestinian Council for National Empowerment headquarters in Gaza City. The exhibition was attended by a large audience from civil society organizations, members from the Palestinian Parliament, and many artists from the Gaza Strip.
The exhibition included photography, sculptures and caricatures, in addition to an artistic installation assembled from the toys of children and the belongings of people who were affected by the Israeli aggression on the Strip in the summer of 2014. The exhibition featured the screening of documentaries that highlighted Gaza reconstruction mechanism, the delay of reconstruction, and its consequences on the daily life in Gaza.
In conjunction with the exhibition, activists launched a social media campaign under the hashtag (Gaza is not complete). The campaign displayed facts, figures and messages from Gazans about the reconstruction process.
The exhibition, organized by Aid Watch Palestine in Gaza in partnership with a wide array of civil society organizations, aimed at portraying the situation in Gaza two years after the Israeli aggression, in order to shed light on the extent to which the donors are committed to their aid pledges, and the Palestinian efforts seeking to achieve the outputs of the Cairo Conference on reconstruction, in addition to the Israeli obstacles and delays of the process. The exhibition was also an endeavor to show the other side of the suffering of affected families, through its various angles.
The coordinator of the exhibition, Haneen Al-Sammak, said that its main objective was to “deliver the messages of the people of Gaza, especially those who were affected by the destruction, to the international community, with regards to the reconstruction issues. Gaza is not complete and that is an interpretation of the costs of the donors’ policies on the lives of these people. It answers the questions of: What could we do in Gaza if we had aid were we not exposed to aggression? Why haven’t we seen the generosity of donors in the years of siege that preceded the war? As well as many other questions. The exhibition is a space to explain to people how the normal life should be like. Gazans dream of a decent life, and we must describe what it is like for them”.
Aid Watch Palestine is an independent Palestinian initiative, striving to stimulate and support efforts to make international aid more accountable to Palestinians and before the public opinion, including the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
