Damascus, Syria - Aug 14, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV)
1. Various of painters painting at ruins of Yarmouk Camp
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Jalbout, organizer of painting event "wild grass":
"All the paintings we are working on today is about Yarmouk camp, which has gone through incredible changes from our memory until how it looks now. We depict what is on our mind, what we expect, as well as our wishes. We want to picture life and hope inside the ruins."
3. Various of Amjad Joudeh, painter, working on paintings
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amjad Joudeh, painter (ending with shot 5):
"I came here and see these scenes in the camp. I am hoping to acquire the inspiration here at the ruin that I can not get from pictures and videos. These paintings are a kind of record to tell the next generation of what happened in the Yarmouk camp and what happened in the war, just like a class to let them know what we have been through."
5. Various of Amjad Joudeh working on paintings
6. Various of painters painting at ruins
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanna Kibaby, painter (partially overlaid with shot 8):
"This is a kid who lost one of his eyes during the war, but still wants to exhibit hope by covering the injured eye with a picture of an eye. The ruin scenes behind him tell that many children lost their lives during the war. So I painted him, and I hope what is on the picture can be real."
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8. Various of Hanna Kibaby painting
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9. Various of painters painting at ruins

FILE: Damascus, Syria - April 24, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV)
10. Various of bombarding scenes

More than ten artists returned to the Yarmouk camp located south of the Syrian capital in recent days, saying that they hope to depict their dreams of future over the war-torn ruins where they once lived.

The Yarmouk camp, established in 1950s for the Palestinian refugees expelled from their land by Israel, is in fact not an officially refugee camp. It is home, and the largest gathering places in Syria for the Palestinian people and their offspring, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

It had suffered the strict siege from the Syrian government since 2012 after the Free Syrian Army and other rebelling groups took its control as the nation's civil war went when most areas in Yarmouk camp was under the occupation of the extremists groups.

The country's governmental force and its allies launches several-weeks-long military offensive on the camps earlier this year before they declared the regain of the entire Yarmouk camp in May of 2018.

The intensive bombings also reduced large amounts of building to mound during the weeks, with most of the Palestinian refugees evacuated to al-Hajar al-Aswad District, a neighborhood seven kilometers to downtown Damascus.

As no more sounds of bombardment can be heard at the camps now, a group of artists came back to the rubbles in Yarmouk hoping to depict the ruins.

The organizer, Muhammad Jalbout, called their event as "wild grass", which stands for the braveness and persistence of the camp.

"All the paintings we are working on today is about Yarmouk camp, which has gone through incredible changes from our memory until how it looks now. We depict what is on our mind, what we expect, as well as our wishes. We want to picture life and hope inside the ruins," said Muhamma Jalbout, adding that the painting will be displayed at the entrance of the camp once completed.

Amjad Joudeh, one of the painters, was raised at the Yarmouk camp, and said all the beautiful memories have turned into ruins so he wants to tell the world they have lost their home.

"I came here and see these scenes in the camp. I am hoping to acquire the inspiration here at the ruin that I can not get from pictures and videos. These paintings are a kind of record to tell the next generation of what happened in the Yarmouk camp and what happened in the war, just like a class to let them know what we have been through," said Amjad Joudeh.

Others also depict a colorful future with hope, rather than heart-broken memories.

"This is a kid who lost one of his eyes during the war, but still wants to exhibit hope by covering the injured eye with a picture of an eye. The ruin scenes behind him tell that many children lost their lives during the war. So I painted him, and I hope what is on the picture can be real," said Hanna Kibaby.

The painters believe that now that they are back, blacksmiths and carpenters will come back too soon, and when people come back to do their jobs, it's time for the camp to revive, in near future, hopefully.