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 .

With severely limited resources, they have turned the beach into an open space for expression that also serves to provide the displaced Palestinians surviving in the area a chance to take a short break from the pressures of more than two years of war.

Yazid Abu Jarad and his team carve letters in the sand using tape measures, drawing a crowd, including children scarred by the relentless I

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