Stirring artworks made since October 7 massacre tour London

Another piece portrays a baby lying inside a bleeding poppy, symbolising the some 40 children who were kidnapped by the terror group Hamas and brought to Gaza.

An art exhibition created by artists based in Israel following the October 7 attack displayed in London (Credit: Amanda Rose/@amandarosephoto)© amanda rose

Orit Eyal-Fibeesh, co-founder of the 7/10 Human Chain, said the installation was “particularly important considering the growing hatred seen in the streets of London over the last few months. Hatred that is often fuelled by bias and lack of awareness.”

She said the works were originally meant to be in 12 locations but was reduced to 5 due to security reasons. Reactions from the public, according to Orit, ranged from “blatantly ignoring them and looking the other way” to a few people “in tears.”

She added that “with the exception of an altercation in Trafalgar Square on Sunday when two individuals pretending to be Lebanese journalists vandalised the exhibition, [we have not witnessed] violence but it’s certainly been tense.”

Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, visited the installation in Oxford Circus on Tuesday.

Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom, visits the mobile art exhibition in London (Credit: Amanda Rose/@amandarosephoto)© amanda rose

Matan Bar Noy, head of WZO in the UK and Europe, said the art was selected “out of hundreds of works created after October 7.”

He added, “I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Jewish community for embracing Israel during this difficult period and as Theodor Herzl said in 1897 at the first Zionist Congress in Basel, ‘we are a people – one people’.”