Star of David erased in shocking attack on Hamas victims memorial of Jewish mother, 2 young sons

A mural successful Milan, Italy, honoring the lives of Shiri Bibas and her 2 young sons — Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 10 months — who were senselessly murdered by Hamas — was destroyed this week, conscionable weeks aft it was vandalized.

The Star of David was removed, and the harm to Shiri’s look has rendered her astir unrecognizable.

"Those who committed this vile enactment are cowards who despise the West and our values of freedom," modern creator AleXsandro Palombo told Fox News Digital.

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A mural successful Milan, Italy, by modern creator AleXsandro Palombo was wholly defaced. A vandal covered the Star of David and rendered the look of Shiri Bibas astir unrecognizable. (AleXsandro Palombo)

"Removing the Star of David and obscuring Shiri’s look means attempting to erase history, to contradict the beingness of a people, to enforce an ideology that rejects antiauthoritarian coexistence and attempts to rewrite the contiguous with the ink of fear."

The artwork extracurricular the Qatari consulate successful Milan was covered with a people past period during a memorial work for the victims of the attacks connected Oct. 7, 2023.

Shiri’s look was obscured by an representation primitively created by Vancouver thoroughfare creator iHeart. The artwork depicted a crying boy, affectional implicit a deficiency of societal media attention. The vandal utilized the representation arsenic a basal for originative liberties, adding "No War" and a reddish bull's-eye to the photograph implicit Shiri’s face.

Palombo called the vandalism an "antisemitic act" past week to Fox News Digital.

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The mural of Shiri Bibas and her 2 young sons was primitively defaced during a memorial work for the victims of the attacks connected Oct. 7, 2023. (AleXsandro Palombo)

"Striking the Israeli emblem that shielded the children is simply a mode of saying that nary spot is harmless for Jews, not adjacent successful the bosom of Europe," Palombo said.

"The flag, successful the mural, was not conscionable a cloak that protected the children; it was besides the motion of their belonging, the awesome of an individuality that embraces them and, astatine the aforesaid time, exposes them. In that motion of extortion laic the tenderness of a radical defending its children, but besides the fragility of those who, precisely due to the fact that of who they are, go targets of hatred."

The children’s likenesses were besides damaged.

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Artist AleXsandro Palombo told Fox News Digital helium dedicated the mural to Shiri Bibas and her 2 young sons to support Western values, which helium says are nether threat. (AleXsandro Palombo)

Palombo learned of the implicit defacement done backstage messages connected his societal media channels.

It is unclear if the artwork volition beryllium restored oregon recreated.

"I volition respond arsenic I ever have, by continuing with my creation without taking a azygous measurement back, due to the fact that each effort astatine erasure volition beryllium an accidental to reaffirm who we are," Palombo told Fox News Digital.

Other works of creation by Palombo, including murals dedicated to Auschwitz subsister Sami Modiano, Italian Holocaust subsister Liliana Segre and Hungarian-born Holocaust subsister Edith Bruck, person been ruined successful the past.

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"Free, present, and determined not to retreat adjacent a millimeter earlier this tsunami of fanaticism, fundamentalism and huffy radicalism," Palombo said.