Children flee land where even the sun cries

The pictures tell the story.

In the pages of school copybooks, kept at the Al-Jalil Children’s Centre in the Waivel Camp in Lebanon, children from Syria have sketched their memories of the conflict that has driven them out of their country.

Some of the drawings show friends and cousins that the Syrian children don’t see anymore, but other illustrations are more stark and unsettling. There’s the picture of an apartment block being bombed from above, orange flame jutting out of the roof.