A Palestinian feeling which ensures estafado- sold for 700 shekels (about $ 174) a work that British street artist Banksy quoted painted in a ruined building in the Gaza Strip reported the string BBC .
Rabie Darduna, a local trader, told the BBC how “a young foreigner” appeared one day and painted a mural at the door of his house, the only element left standing in an old two-storey building destroyed in the recent conflict with Israel, in August 2014.
The graffiti Banksy, whose identity remains a mystery, got to reach prices of hundreds of thousands of euros in the most prestigious auction houses worldwide.
When the work executed in Gaza, which represents the character from Greek mythology Niobe, appeared in some media, a group of men appeared before Darduna and made an offer to take the door.
“One man told me: ‘We are part of the group that made’. They made me sign a paper and said that he accepted the 700 shekels. I pushed and I accepted, because I need the money, “said Darduna, father of six children.
The man explained that since her house was destroyed along with other 18,000 Gaza Strip lives with 19 family members in two rooms rented.
BBC contacted the buyer Banksy said that l * a transaction was legal. *
“I feel depressed and very angry. The door belongs to us. We have deceived, is a fraud, what we ask is that we return it “Darduna said.
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