Self-portrait drawing offers a safe and supportive space where they can explore their identity, feelings, and inner world without fear or pressure.

What can we learn from these children’s lives? And how will the world respond to an entire generation growing up under the shadow of genocide?

The PHRC has produced and published The Witness, an archival book that brings together drawings and testimonies by children in Gaza.

These are the words of children living in Gaza today. Their wishes for 2026 are simple: a clean place with electricity to live in, a home to sleep in instead of a tent, a school to return to, time with relatives and friends, and moments of normal childhood.

A theatre show written and performed by our children, ages 9–12, created over 10 sessions (3 hours each) as part of the Storytelling & Theatre Path.

Step by step, we try together to rebuild life for our children emerging from the devastation, who have lost so much. This will not be easy, but a great mountain begins with a small stone.

For 20 months, children in Gaza have been experiencing severe psychological trauma. Fear, anxiety, nightmares, and emotional numbness are only some of the reactions to the violence they are exposed to.

Circumstances have been deteriorating by the day and our team is being displaced once again. But even before, since the break of the ceasefire in March, we have been struggling to reach our children as the situation was too dangerous to gather in a central place. Here’s a recap of our journey. 

In July, the PHRC launched Witness | شاهد an exhibition featuring drawings made by the children in the Children's Village in Gaza. Read on for upcoming exhibition details.

"I came here to play and fly my kite. I want to feel that I can live my life like how I used to before the war."

As long as the genocide and the occupation keep going, we won’t rest. During last days of Ramadan we initiated a kite event to offer a small window of hope for the children.