“Innocence Under the Dark” is the title of caricature paintings that reflect the suffering of Gaza children, whereas each painting reflects the sad and ironic situation of those children whose only sin that they are Gazans, sole reason to be deprived from food, medicine, and treatment.

Those sad and ironic paintings were displayed on the walls of the Arts and Handicraft’s Village in Gaza Strip, being drawn by tiny fingers from Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, and Jordan through the society of Baladna Center for Arts and Culture, to express solidarity with Gaza children by colors, and even by blood.

From those paintings colored in red and black, is one drawing that depicts with sad lines a child’s tear where the word Gaza was written on his face.

On the other wall of the gallery was a painting of an amputee child, while encircled by blood to express one side of the sad situation of Gaza children who were deprived from the right of treatment.

A third painting was depicting a child while pointing to his mother’s tomb and his brother’s tomb , cause the Israeli occupation killed his mother pregnant by his brother.

Those paintings tried to express the sad situation of the Palestinian child who suffers from difficulties in all life aspects, as many studies have demonstrated that Gaza children are suffering from malnutrition because of poverty and unemployment of their parents.

Gaza children were not only besieged by being deprived from healthy food, but also by being deprived from suitable treatment for their diseases, that led to the death of a big number of them, let alone the terrorizing sounds of Israeli warplanes raiding their residential areas from time to time.

Hereunder are some of those paintings :