Creart in Palestine
Creart has been working in Palestine since its foundation in 2006, and has maintained a constant presence since then, especially in the Gaza Strip.
Context
Since October 2023, Gaza has been suffering an unprecedented military aggression that has led to a genocide of its population. By early October 2025, more than 66,000 Palestinians had been killed, including nearly 18,500 children, and almost 170,000 had been injured. The massive destruction of infrastructure and essential services has turned the entire Strip into a large-scale humanitarian emergency.
In this context, Creart works in Gaza based on a clear commitment to cooperation, dignity, and culture as tools of resistance. We do so in close collaboration with our local partner, the Palestinian Organization for Development, through various complementary lines of action:
- Distribution of emergency kits with essential items
We contribute to sustaining daily life in the Gaza Strip by distributing food and non-food kits, responding to the urgent needs of the affected population. - Creation of decent work to resist the genocide
We implement international cooperation projects that place the employment of Gazan people at their core, thereby supporting the economic sustainability of families and communities in a context of extreme vulnerability. - Mental health care and psychosocial support
We provide psychosocial support spaces for children and young people, using art and creative expression as therapeutic tools to alleviate the effects of the collective trauma that the genocide has inflicted on mental health. - Strengthening cultural resistance with local artists
We promote artistic residency programs for Gazan women and men artists, enabling them to resume their creative activity and develop community initiatives in spaces of refuge. Through these actions, culture remains alive as a form of resistance and social cohesion. - Preservation of historical memory and documentation of cultural genocide
We collect and compile the testimonies and stories of Gazan artists to help preserve Gaza’s historical and cultural memory, and to give voice and visibility to the ongoing cultural genocide.
June 2026: We Publish the StripArt Gaza Book
After more than two years of work, we are delighted to finally share some exciting news: we have published the StripArt Gaza book.
This book is much more than a publication. It is the result of a project developed hand in hand with the Palestinian Organization for Development (POD) and Ruido Photo, and, above all, with the Palestinian women and men artists who, amid the devastation in the Gaza Strip, have continued to create, resist, and make art a space for life, dignity, and hope.
The pages of StripArt bring together Nima Hasan’s poems and the works of twelve visual artists from Gaza. Every poem, every illustration, and every photograph draws us closer to stories of loss, survival, and resistance, while also revealing the transformative power of culture, even in the most extreme circumstances. For Creart, this book reflects our commitment to the right to artistic freedom, to memory, and to ensuring that the voices of those who continue creating against all odds continue to be heard.
The publication is part of the project “StripArt: Promoting Cultural Resilience and the Exercise of the Right to Artistic Freedom in the Gaza Strip, Palestine”, implemented with the support of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD).
📖 The book is available in Catalan, Spanish, English and Arabic.
You can download it free of charge here:
