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Turning bullet holes into cartoon characters

Lebanese artist Jad El Khoury, is trying to help people get over the country's civil war through street art. He paints over bullet and missile holes which scar its capital, Beirut. He told Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Minute he decided to highlight these war traces to 'make people look at them again in a new way that will spread positivity instead of bad memories'. It's estimated 150,000 people died in Lebanon's civil war which raged for 15 years from 1975 to 1990.

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