Flying Balloon Girl, also known as Balloon Debate, is a 2005 stencil mural in the West Bank by the graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a young girl holding a bunch of seven balloons floating above the 8 meter-high wall built around the Palestinian enclave near the Qalandia checkpoint.

[1][2] It represents perhaps the first piece of West Bank Wall graffiti art to have received international acclaim, serving as a form of "transnational and experiential empathy".

[4] It has been described as: "poignantly simple", with its message "as basic as the artwork: through magic realism and notions of childhood innocence, the young girl embodies a dreamy, supernatural hope as the balloons lift her up from her stark surroundings.

"[5] As such its message has become universal, as John Lennon, associate professor of English at the University of South Florida, describes:[5] As an image alone, though, there is of course no connection between this girl and the Palestinian desire to return.

Instead, Flying Balloon Girl represents a universal desire to magically escape life's difficulties.