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Osama Nawaf Nazzal, born in Kuwait - Jahra 1982, is a Palestinian cartoonist and contemporary visual artist, residing in Ramallah. He is from Qalqilya. He holds a BA in Contemporary Visual Art (Keio) National University of Art, Oslo, and traveled to Norway twice. He started his caricature career after being influenced by the school of the late Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali, who was famous for (Banzala) in black and white. 8 years from 1996 to 2004 without publishing a single caricature through the media. The first caricature that saw the light and spread in the press was in 2004. Then the journey began for a year until he was arrested in the Israeli occupation prisons in 2005 and sentenced to 6 and a half years imprisonment. His release in 2007 drew a group of drawings and held the first caricature exhibition inside the prison. He participated in a number of exhibitions, and one of his caricatures culminated in drawing the keffiyeh. A video that is now displayed in the Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah. Nazzal is famous for his political drawings against the occupation and social drawings demanding freedom, justice, equality and spreading peace. He still uses black ink pens and white paper and uses colors through the computer. He created a cartoon character named (Abu Ali) and the Ka family. The rhyme used for social caricature. The artist Osama Nazzal participated in the Caricature Contest for Integrity and Fighting Corruption in 2014, and was ranked second at the national level. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas honored him and awarded him the Transparency Shield and the Anti-Corruption Commission Prize. Nazzal is a member of the General Union of Plastic Artists and a member of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Society for Contemporary Art. He volunteered at the International Academy of Arts, and worked with children through children’s clubs to encourage them to express themselves in peaceful ways and through drawing, and releasing energies. He publishes cartoons on daily news sites, weekly and monthly magazines, and on the social networking page.
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In 2014, during the war on Gaza, he was subjected to a waterfall of harassment by settlers and Israelis via emails via Facebook and e-mail to discourage him from drawings that criticize excessive force and unjust aggression against his people and his just cause that the defenseless Palestinian citizen pays for.
The Israeli media websites specialized in monitoring the Palestinian media, especially the caricature field, were monitored and published. A large group of artist Nazzal's drawings, in which he criticizes the repeated aggression by the occupation forces, the settlers, and the policies of the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, and accuses him of inciting media incitement that serves the Palestinian resistance.
In 2014, the 66-year anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on his personal page - the Israeli Prime Minister - speaking in Arabic, published a cartoon of Nazzal and likened it to a cartoon by a German Nazi cartoonist in 1930 criticizing German Jews, accusing the artist Osama Nazzal of being Anti-Semitic and practicing media incitement and aggression.
In 2015, he was threatened by ISIS, the Wilayat of Libya, through a group of messages on Facebook, after he published a cartoon criticizing ISIS’s terrorist behavior and actions against civilians and people there after the fall of the Gaddafi regime. He asked him to repent and return from heresy and blasphemy before the arrival of ISIS and his execution or the punishment of Hell in the end.
In 2016, and through a French website that monitors radicals in the Middle East, a personal picture, private information and cartoons of the artist Osama Nazzal were published accusing him of being intolerant and extremist and calling for incitement against Semitism, which angered the artist, and his return to communicate with them and prove that he is a Canaanite Arab Semitic who is neither hostile nor hostile to himself. Monotheistic religions, and he paints for freedom, independence and peace for his people and the peoples of the region, and he criticizes the aggressive and excessive practices of the Israeli army and gangs against a defenseless people who demand the most basic human rights, which is freedom. The artist contacted the site directly and proved the opposite of the accusations and evidence that his name was removed from the list of supporters of violence and terrorism in the Middle East.
In 2017, the administration of Facebook deleted a cartoon drawn and published by the artist Osama Nazzal on his personal page, proving and showing the motive of a Palestinian resistance who ran over a group of occupation soldiers in Jerusalem and accused the cartoon of being undesirable media material on Facebook and considered it inflammatory material with a warning, in case The ball is returned again with a two-week ban from publication.
At the end of March 2017, the Israeli occupation forces stormed a cartoon library located in the town of Kafr Nima, Ramallah District, 12 km to the west. The main door was destroyed, the studio was completely destroyed, the contents of archives and holdings were destroyed, and cartoons were confiscated. His family was detained in a room until their intrusion ended. From his father, he brought Osama from Ramallah, but it did not work for them.
In April 2017, he was subjected to three calls by the Israeli intelligence, to surrender himself at the occupied Qalandia checkpoint, which separates the city of Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. The artist Nazzal made his contacts with the concerned authorities and the artist received assurances from the Palestinian Authority through the Palestinian connection with the National Security, and surrendered himself to an interview with the occupation intelligence on Thursday 1.5.2017 at 2 pm. The interrogation took 3 continuous hours, and he was released at 5 pm.
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