Activists unfurl banner at Madrid museum to demand Gaza ceasefire


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Activists unveil US artist Shepard Fairey's illustration, which depicts a photograph by Gazan photojournalist Belal Khaled of a Palestinian child crying for help. The banner was placed outside the Reina Sofia museum, home of Picasso’s 'Guernica', in Madrid on Jan 24. Photo: Reuters

Rights and environmental activists demanding a ceasefire in Gaza unfurled a giant picture of a Palestinian child crying for help above the entrance to Madrid's Reina Sofia museum, home to Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica" that depicts the horrors of war.

In Wednesday's action, global campaigning group Greenpeace and the Unmute Gaza movement that supports photojournalists reporting from the war zone used a banner with an illustration by US artist Shepard Fairey based on an image taken by Gazan photographer Belal Khaled.

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