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# New Banksy Anti-War Piece Stolen in Broad Daylight
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-banksy-anti-war-piece-stolen/
- Published: 2023-12-22T19:41:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:46.000Z
- Description: A video online shows two men removing the work less than an hour after the artist posted about it on Instagram.
- Author: Elaine Velie
- Tags: News, Banksy, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:29 (2023, 2024, part 1)

In London, a new anti-war artwork by the British street artist Banksy was stolen less than an hour after he authenticated it on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C1J5-%5F1sRf0/?ref=hyperallergic.com) earlier today, December 22.

[Footage](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/22/banksy-artwork-stolen-south-london-peckham?ref=hyperallergic.com) circulating online shows two men removing the work, a stop sign onto which Banksy had painted three aircraft resembling the American MQ-9 Reaper drones, recently seen flying over Gaza.

Onlookers are heard muttering "Oh, my god," and "makes me so annoyed," as a man is seen fleeing the scene with artwork.

Banksy depicted the same series of aircraft in a 2017 artwork titled "[Civilian Drone Strike](https://hyperallergic.com/400121/new-banksy-piece-targets-london-arms-fair/)," in which the unmanned vessels soar over a framed childlike drawing of a girl with her pet witnessing the bombing of a house. The work was displayed at the Art the Arms Fair, an event organized by artists and activists to protest against a weapons trade show in London.

Meanwhile, the Banksy-designed Walled Off Hotel in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the West Bank has been shuttered since October 12, citing the escalation in the region. The artist has also [painted murals in Gaza](https://hyperallergic.com/185876/new-banksys-highlight-plight-of-palestinians-in-gaza/) whose fate is currently unknown.