Untitled by 24-year-old Ziyad Dahalan

Lama Shakshak, 16, was rescued from the rubble that was once her home in Gaza. This was during the 51-day Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip in 2014. The invasion claimed 2,205 lives including 520 children, displacing thousands of families. Shakshak survived and took to art, painting and writing, to deal with her trauma. Similarly, Mahmud Al Khurd, 22, took to expressing himself through photography after the 2008/09 invasion. In 2014, he taught himself digital art. His paintings feature his sister, whom he lost in the invasion, as the protagonist.