11/29/2024–|Last updated: 11/29/202406:13 PM (Mecca time)
kuala lumpur- The ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip brought back a Malaysian architect in his nineties to the hobby of drawing.
The artist, engineer Hajidar Abdel Majeed, told Tel Aviv Tribune 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 for freedom and independence.
Abdel Majeed held an exhibition of his paintings that he painted since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, in which he combined the suffering and hopes of the Palestinian people, the justice of their cause, and its humanitarian and religious centrality.
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 South Africa’s role in transferring genocide crimes to the International Court of Justice.
“These two hands are raised in prayer that all these tragedies must end, all the ongoing brutality in Palestine must end, and we can only achieve that by supporting every human being in this world, because any of these atrocities could happen to any of us,” Abdel says. Glorious.
The octogenarian engineer displayed other paintings in his exhibition that embodied the bewilderment of the peoples of the world regarding international powers’ support for Israel, along with other works that expressed the artist’s personal dreams of seeing an independent Palestine in his lifetime, when he reached the age of 83, and his country and others were liberated 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 Arts Museum, in the presence of a large number of artists, engineers and writers who expressed the importance of the impact of works of art due to their great impact in the long term.
