The Route Back Home: How Gaza's children use art to express the nightmares of genocide

The Route Back Home: How Gaza's children use art to express the nightmares of genocide Submitted by Joe Gill on Thu, 04/30/2026 - 08:48 The project at Old Palestine House in Brighton features paintings by children who have lived through Israel's atrocities in the besieged territory A painting by one of the children that features in the project shows a girl walking amid the shrouds of the dead in Gaza (Joe Gill/MEE) Off Amid the remarkable, moving artwork and written testimonies of children from Gaza on display at the Old Palestine House in Brighton, there is one blank canvas suspended among the others. It belongs to Ghazi Ramadan. The eight-year-old Palestinian boy wanted to draw a shopping mall where he could go and buy things.