Activist group Greenpeace rose this Wednesday Reina Sofia Art Museum in Madridan international icon, at one of the glass elevators, condemning Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip and demanding a ceasefire.

For an action that was different from the usual because it was not environmental, Greenpeace chose the Reina Sofia Museum because it houses Pablo Picasso’s mythical painting Guernica, a symbol of the pictorial depiction of the suffering of the population during the Spanish War. civil war, they explained EFE sources from environmental group.

Activists unfurled a large poster with an illustration by American artist Shepard Fairey, “Obey,” depicting Palestinian child full of blood and the message “Can you hear us?” (‘Can you hear us?‘).

The idea, in collaboration with Palestinian photojournalism support organization Unmute Gaza, is to pay tribute to the photographers and journalists who risk their lives to report from conflict zones to draw attention to the nightmare of death, pain and destruction. that are observed in this area.”

The illustration hanging on the facade of the Reina Sofia building is based on an image taken by Gaza-based photojournalist Belal Khaled and is one of dozens of works created by thirty artists from around the world since the Turn Up the Gaza movement.

Executive Director of Greenpeace, Eva Saldanacalled the situation in Gaza “desperate” after 109 days of conflict.

We are faced with a humanitarian catastrophe of enormous proportions.

He later added in a statement.

We can’t sit idly by, we want you to know we hear you. Today, we join your voices and call on the parties involved and the international community to put the preservation of human life above all else.