An art exhibition of pictures drawn by children caught up in the war in Gaza is now touring across Ireland.
It was started in Co Sligo by Féile Butler, an architect, whose children had sent some of their pictures over to a friend of hers, Mohammed Timraz, at the Deir al-Balah camp in central Gaza at the start of the war.
He shared the drawings with his nieces and nephews in the enclave and then they and their friends began to draw and share their own artwork.
The drawings sent back from children, the majority of whom were displaced from their homes, is part of the 'heART Gaza exhibition', which is also available on Instagram and has led to an additional 55 exhibitions worldwide including in France and Germany.
"It's really about rehumanising the absolutely dehumanised Palestinians," she explains.
Ms Butler said: "Drawings obviously, they cross borders and they cross language.
"They started sending drawings back that initially were basic childhood fare and then they started to get much darker and that's when I said to Mohammed, we need to share it with the world.
"They're sending their messages out to the world so the world can actually see directly, straight from the heart of the children, totally unfiltered, what their experience of living through a genocide is."
She added some of the artists are as young as three and some are teenagers as old as 17.
"There's everything from themes of trauma naturally to themes of displacement, but there's also themes of hope, friendship and resilience and defiance," she said.
Ms Butler said it is a way for the most voiceless to communicate directly with the public.
She said one of the most impactful drawings was done by seven-year-old Shahed Al-Zaqzouq, who included an image of one of the pet cats she had been tasked to look after, bleeding after a missile attack.
"The extra layer that broke my heart is outside the house, there's a little cat and the cat is bleeding, the cat has been injured by a missile ... and that was just another layer that a seven-year-old is depicting this horror that I knew we had to share their perspective with the world," she said.
"The world has to see what damage we are doing to these children," she added.
Of the children whose pictures form part of the exhibition, two have since died.
They were nine-year-old Reema Musbah Timraz who was killed in October 2023 after she had moved to the camp.
Her 13-year-old brother Mohammed also died on the same day when the house where they were staying was bombed.
In the attack, 28 people including their mother, father and another brother died.
Only their 17-year-old brother Wassem survived as he had gone to a local shop.
Reema's picture shows her holding hands near a tree, with her older cousin.
Mohammed's picture shows the Al-Aqsa Mosque and his desire that Palestine should be free.
