Hope Through Art: Happy New Year from Mohammed Tutah (PHOTOS)
Palestinian artist Mohammed Tutah. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)
By Mahmoud Ajjour - Gaza
Mohammed Tutah lost his leg when an Israeli missile fell on his house in the Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City on December 29, 2008.
Several members of his family were killed on that day. Tutah survived, but only to live with a permanent disability. At the time, he was only 19 years old.
Since then, this young Palestinian artist has fought for a permit to leave the besieged Gaza Strip. His desire to leave Gaza was not merely in search of freedom but to find a way to receive a prosthetic implant for his right leg.
For many years, Tutah has been sending messages to the world through his art, mostly on the Gaza beach. This year, he used the an...










