After a week of continuous work, the Palestinian artist Rana Ramlawi ended a sandstone model that embodies the suffering of refugees around the world.
Rana tried to highlight - through her sculpture - the suffering of refugees who were displaced from their homes on their world day, which was agreed on Saturday, June 20.
On an area of 3 meters inside her home in Gaza City, Ramlawi, 25, carved a figure of a grouchy woman, holding her hands with a mattress of mats and raising her shoulders on her shoulders.
The refugee woman is adjacent to her daughter, who carries some of the belongings of the house from which they were displaced, surrounded by a carved map of the world.
"This lady and her children, who have been displaced from their homes and countries, are marching towards the unknown, they have no specific destination," Rana told Anatolia correspondent.
She continued: "My message today from the sculpture is full of humanity. We - Palestinian refugees and refugees around the world too - dream about returning to our homelands and lands from which we were displaced."
She indicated that refugees around the world - especially the Palestinians among them - are living in difficult conditions that "require international attention to them."
Rana al-Ramlawi is a refugee from the "town of Kufkha" in historic Palestine, according to what she said to Anatolia.
The world celebrates "Refugee Day" on June 20 each year, and it is dedicated by the UNHCR to publicize their cause, highlight their suffering and needs and discuss ways to support them.
The total number of Palestinian refugees who were displaced from their cities and villages in 1948 was about 5.6 million, according to the latest UNRWA census in 2019.