11/29/2024–|Last updated: 11/29/20246:13 p.m. (Mecca time)
Kuala Lumpur- The ongoing Israeli war in the Gaza Strip has brought a Malaysian architect in his 90s back to the hobby of drawing.
The artist, engineer Hajidar Abdel Majeed, told Al Jazeera that the war launched by Israel against Gaza since October 7, 2023 pushed him to return to the talent of art and express in his drawings the aspirations of the Palestinian people to freedom and independence.
Abdel Majeed organized an exhibition of his paintings that he painted since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, in which he combines the sufferings and hopes of the Palestinian people, the justice of its cause and its humanitarian centrality and religious.
One of his paintings combined the struggle of the South African people to get rid of apartheid and the struggle of the Palestinian people to get rid of occupation and apartheid together, and recognized the role of South Africa South in the transfer of crimes of genocide to the International Court of Justice.
“These two hands are raised in prayer that all these tragedies must end, that all the brutalities going on in Palestine must stop, and we can only do that by supporting every human being in this world, because any of These atrocities could happen to any of us. “, says Abdel.
The octogenarian engineer featured other paintings in his exhibition that embodied the bewilderment of the world’s people over international powers’ support for Israel, as well as other works that expressed the artist’s personal dreams of seeing an independent Palestine during his lifetime, when he reached the age of 83, and his country and others were freed from colonialism.
It is noteworthy that Sultan Mukhriz bin Munawar – the Sultan of the Malaysian state of Negri Sembilan – opened the exhibition at the National Museum of Arts, in the presence of a large number of artists, engineers and writers who expressed the importance of the impact of the works. of art because of their great long-term impact.