The art is washed away every evening, but the artists are back every morning with enthusiasm.

Everything around Gaza’s shoreline has been reduced to rubble by the Israeli military, but the coast still offers some fleeting solace from the horrors of ongoing death and destruction in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

Local artists have been creating sand sculptures on the beach, gathering people on the shoreline that used to attract large crowds before the devastation of Israel’s genocidal war.