Which Banksy artwork on the West Bank barrier shows a girl frisking a soldier?

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Banksy’s West Bank barrier artwork showing a girl frisking a soldier is titled Stop and Search.

The image reverses the expected power relationship between a child and an armed soldier. Banksy painted it on the Israeli West Bank barrier, a structure he repeatedly used as a prominent canvas for political and satirical works.

Stop and Search belongs to Banksy’s broader body of art about militarism, borders, surveillance and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Its title refers to a police procedure, while the image shifts that procedure onto a small civilian girl inspecting a soldier.

It is sometimes confused with Banksy’s other barrier murals, including Love Is in the Air, which shows a masked protester throwing flowers, and the works depicting openings or landscapes cut into the wall.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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