Gaza Strand in the year 2030: This cartoon shows what the sandy beach of the Gaza Strip will look like in five years. Cartoonist Peter de Wit (67) wins the 2025 ink spot price. He drew the best political drawing of the past parliamentary year. The cartoon ‘Gaza Beach 2030’ was published on 8 February in de Volkskrant; De Wit has been signing the Strip called the Volkskrant for 31 years. Sigmund. The prize was awarded this Tuesday by Stichting Pers & Prent in the Nieuwspoort press center in The Hague.
On the illustration You can see a toddler who digs out skeletons and skulls. He proudly walks to his parents to show what he has found under the sand. Nice and lazy, lying back, his parents enjoy the Middle Eastern sun. It looks like there was no war between Israel and Gaza recently; Whether Israel is not guilty of genocidal violence. So, sand over it. “The airy cheerfulness [van de spotprent] Strongly contrasts with the subject, “says the jury.
On social media, viewers describe the cartoon as “harsh reality and the narcissistic fantasy of an American president.” Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump placed an AI-generated movie On his Instagram account. In the video he was together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a luxury resort in ‘the future’ Gaza.
Tjeerd Royaards in ‘Trouw’, May 12, 2025.
Kamagurka: ‘Trump draws a circle’, in ‘De Groene Amsterdammer’, March 6, 2025.
Hein de Kort: ‘Efteling’, in Het Parool, May 5, 2025.
Eliane Gerrits in ‘EW’, October 5, 2024.
Trump: recurring pattern
A total of 145 drawings were submitted for the ink -spot price, five of which were nominated: Hein de Kort, Eliane Gerrits, Tjeerd Royaards, Kamagurka and (winner) Peter de Wit. Trump occurs in three of the five illustrations or is indirectly referred to him. None of the cartoons were published in NRC. The head of the jury is Stine Jensen, NRC columnist and philosopher; Together with former Minister of Defense Klaas Dijkhoff, writer and political scientist Kiza Magendane, comedian David van Rosmalen and cartoonist Babette Wagenvoort, they form the five -member jury.
According to the jury, ‘Gaza Beach 2030’ is a deceptively light -hearted drawing, which cuts in and is characteristic of one of the most important topics of this political year. The cartoon also criticizes the way in which people close their eyes before the war in Gaza and how national and international politics deals with it. Jensen: “Anyone who has seen this image once, don’t forget it quickly.”
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