Gaza International Airport (GZA) — Remade

In 2009 I launched gazaairport.com as an experience of booking a ticket and imagining a flight. Through the familiar language of online ticket order and purchase, visitors were invited to do something Palestinians are denied: to choose a destination, reserve a seat, and picture themselves departing and arriving freely. The project grew out of a personal wish — that of an immigrant Palestinian who wanted his family to attend his wedding in Oslo, a wish made impossible by the political realities that impose a travel ban on Palestinians. Palestine Airways Limited, realized as an art installation at the Open Academy in 2008, promoted and marketed the total project through a real setup of travel.

Since then, Gaza has been devastated. A genocide is taking place now, and the right of free movement that the project imagined has been replaced, for many, by displacement, siege, and loss. The airport that never fully carried passengers now stands as a symbol of what was taken — and of what must be reclaimed.

This remade version of Gaza International Airport responds to what is happening in Gaza today. It does not look away from the destruction. It holds the grief and the anger of stolen movement alongside the insistence that imagination is itself a form of resistance.

We will keep imagining our future. We will rebuild Gaza.

The booking experience remains — but it is no longer only a wish. It is a promise. Every imagined flight is a claim to the right to move, to return, to live freely. Every ticket is a small act of refusal against erasure.

Gaza International Airport is a shared record — and it belongs to everyone. You are invited to add your own material to this archive:

Images and video from Gaza and the airport — historical, contemporary, or personal.

Imagined designs for the airport — drawings, renderings, sketches, or concepts for what the airport of Gaza could become.

Anything connected to Gaza — memories, documents, artwork, or visions of the future.

Choose a chapter: Archive (historical) / Contemporary documentation / Imagined future.

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