22/01/2026: In the occupied West Bank, Israel has mobilised all military and settler-colonial means to make Palestinian life impossible.
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24/12/2025: Christian activist Kisiya regains access to family land after an Israeli court ruled against settlers in the occupied West Bank.
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21/12/2025: US, Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye urge restraint in Gaza as Israeli attacks continue
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17/12/25: India’s new suicide crisis: Poll workers take lives amid voter recount rush
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8/11/25: Turkiye accuses Israeli officials of ‘genocide and crimes against humanity’ over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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5/11/25: Zohran Mamdani elected as New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
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#ArtistsForDemocracy #ContemporaryArt #CurrentEventsArt #Equality #Hope #NYC #ZohranMamdani #PoliticalChange
31/10/25: Supporters are making a final push to convince voters that Mamdani is the man for this historic New York City mayoral moment.
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30/10/25: Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba after killing dozens in Haiti, Jamaica
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#ArtAndPolitics #ArtAsWitness #ClimateCrisis #Caribbean #Haiti #Cuba
#ContemporaryArt #CurrentEventsArt #ArtistsForDemocracy
27/10/25: Protesters killed in clashes in Cameroon’s Douala as opposition accuses President Paul Biya of seeking to rig elections.
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19/10/25: Afghanistan, Pakistan agree to immediate ceasefire after talks in Doha.
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18/10/25: French massacre of WWII African riflemen ‘premeditated’, covered up. 👉 [pierremertens.be/en/current/](pierremerte...
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17/10/25: Israel’s exploding robots still terrorise Gaza neighbourhoods
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16/10/25: Gaza medics find signs of torture on Palestinian bodies returned by Israel. 👉 pierremertens.be/en/current/
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14/10/25: US Speaker Johnson warns government shutdown could be longest in history. 👉 pierremertens.be/en/current/
#CoversProject #PierreMertens #OnKawara #DailyDrawing #ContemporaryArt #ArtAsWitness #PoliticalArt #ArtistsForDemocracy #MassVsIndividual #CurrentEventsArt
12/10/25: Taliban, Pakistani forces trade heavy fire along Afghanistan border.
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10/10/25: BREAKING, Hamas gets guarantee of complete end to Gaza war, Israel approves ceasefire. 👉 pierremertens.be/en/current/
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8/10/25: Burkina Faso’s military gov’t arrests European NGO workers for ‘spying’
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8/10/25: Trump walks back offer to talk to Democrats as government shutdown extends
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5/10/25: Israel pounds Gaza, killing 70, despite Trump’s call for it to halt bombing.
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4/10/25: Hamas says it agrees to parts of Trump’s Gaza plan but seeks more talks
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2/10/2025: Israeli forces intercept Gaza flotilla; detain activists, Greta Thunberg
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#CoversProject #ArtAsWitness #DailyQuote #Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #GretaThunberg #HumanRights #CurrentEventsArt
20/9/25: Israeli forces kill 91 in Gaza, including civilians fleeing Gaza City. 👉 pierremertens.be/en/current/
#CoversProject #ArtAsWitness #DailyQuote #WestBank #Palestine #HumanRights #CurrentEventsArt #PierreMertens
15/09/25: Ai Weiwei and the lost backpack: A Chinese exile’s brush with bureaucracy 👉 pierremertens.be/en/current/
#AiWeiwei #China #Exile #Bureaucracy #CoversProject #ArtAsWitness #CurrentEventsArt
14/09/25: Clashes in London as 110,000 join far-right rally against immigration 👉 pierremertens.be/en/current/
#London #FarRight #Immigration #Protest #CoversProject #ArtAsWitness #CurrentEventsArt
20/7/25: Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party rallies for fair elections
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28/03/25: South Sudan on brink of renewed civil war, UN warns
(Since On Kawara’s death on July 10, 2014, I have been responding to world news on social media with a daily drawing) #peace #ArtisticJourney #ArtistsForPalestine #contemporaryart #AmnestyInternational #CurrentEventsArt #OnKawara
27/3/25: Hassan Abo Qamar: The world’s indifference to Palestinian suffering allows Israel to destroy us and our homeland with impunity
#peace #love #ArtisticJourney #ArtistsForPalestine #contemporaryart #AmnestyInternational #CurrentEventsArt #OnKawara
24/3/25: South African ambassador expelled by Trump receives hero’s welcome at home
(Since On Kawara’s death on July 10, 2014, I have been responding to world news on social media with a daily drawing) #peace #ArtistsForPalestine #contemporaryart #AmnestyInternational #CurrentEventsArt #OnKawara
23/3/25: Turkish court orders Istanbul mayor Imamoglu jailed pending trial
(Since On Kawara’s death on July 10, 2014, I have been responding to world news on social media with a daily drawing) #peace #ArtistsForPalestine #contemporaryart #AmnestyInternational #CurrentEventsArt #OnKawara
22/3/25: Trump targets Biden, Harris in US security clearance purge
(Since On Kawara’s death on July 10, 2014, I have been responding to world news on social media with a daily drawing) #peace #love #ArtistsForPalestine #contemporaryart #AmnestyInternational #CurrentEventsArt #OnKawara
