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Palestinian artist Farah Qarmout, 36, draws paintings expressing the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

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RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Gaza - 24 January 2023. Palestinian artist Farah Qarmout, 36, draws paintings expressing the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

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Qarmout was born in Syria 1986 for a Palestinian family. From a young age, she was always looking for a promising future in art domain

Artworks that speak about the catastrophic impact of the 15-year Israeli blockade on the lives of the youths.

The successive years of the blockade pushed Gaza's unemployment rate to about 50 percent, and about 83 percent of its population live below the poverty line, according to a report issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in 2021.

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