Inside a damaged home in Deir al-Balah in Gaza, contemporary visual artist Maysa Yousef is giving children a lifeline.
Through Maysa Atelier, children traumatized by the genocidal war on Gaza are using art to release fear, grief, and psychological distress.
With few supplies and walls still cracked from Israeli strikes, the children of Gaza draw on whatever they can find, even rubble. Their paintings no longer reflect only destruction and a gloomy world, but butterflies and the life they are still holding onto.
