Every day, Ammar Abu Shammalah gives some colors to the drabness of the drab life in the Gaza Strip by loading his van with paintings that he displays and sells in the streets and markets.
Abu Shammalah and his wife Arwa, both unemployed and graduated from university, were practicing the hobby of drawing at leisure, before they had the idea of making use of this hobby.
"We loved showing our paintings to people in all the vital places, in all the streets, in all alleys, and in light of the (Corona) crisis, we wanted the matter to be a source of livelihood," Abu Shammalah said.
Abu Shamala and Arwa focus their paintings on landscape painting, flowers and faces, and hang the paintings on the sides of the car, then Abu Shammalah pulls out more interior after he stops it and the crowds gather.
Three other artists from the sector are participating in the project, and the couple say that they have sold about 200 paintings during the past few weeks at a price ranging between four and 10 dollars for the painting, which is a relatively high price in the besieged sector, where the unemployment rate reaches about 50%.