Overview
- Mansour’s family announced his death on his verified Instagram account on Monday, August 24, 2026, saying he had passed away in Jerusalem; no cause of death has been released and funeral details were pending.
- Earlier the same day the family posted that Mansour was in critical condition and asked for prayers and support from friends and followers.
- He is best known for Jamal Al Mahamel, commonly called Camel of Hardship, an image that came to symbolize Palestinian sumud, or steadfastness, across homes, posters and public spaces.
- During the First Intifada Mansour co‑founded the New Visions collective and adopted locally sourced materials such as mud, henna and straw as an aesthetic and political choice that tied art materially to the land.
- Mansour helped build Palestinian cultural infrastructure through the League of Palestinian Artists, the Al‑Wasiti Art Centre and teaching, won regional prizes including the 1998 Grand Nile Prize and the 2019 UNESCO–Sharjah Prize, and is being remembered in tributes and museum retrospectives.