On the Town: The image of a cow being butchered on the floor of a shop in a refugee camp caught the eye of many. Another photograph that stopped people in their tracks was the city skyline of Tyre rising elegantly above a turquoise sea. Many wondered what the cityscape must look like today.
The Forgotten People, an exhibition of photographs taken by Irish Times photographer Frank Miller during a visit with fellow journalist Déaglán de Bréadún to refugee camps in Lebanon last April was opened at Dublin's Central Library by David Andrews, chair of the Irish Red Cross, on Thursday.
Photographer and broadcaster Tom Lawlor loved the "absolute poignancy" of a photograph of two men using their mobile phones to record the "almost biblical" image of a woman hugging her destroyed olive tree.
"It's journalists like these that keeps us wise to what's going on in the Middle East," said Amnesty International's David White, co-organiser with Aoife Daly, a NUI Galway lecturer in international law on rights of the child.
Among those at the opening was Hikmat Ajjuri, the Palestinian ambassador to Ireland; PA photographer Niall Carson and Trócaire's Enda Saul and Deirdre Ní Cheallaigh, who will all be helping to raise funds for Lebanon and Palestine at tomorrow night's special concert in Dublin's The Village on Wexford Street.
Looking at the pictures, Amnon Vidan, of Amnesty International's Israeli Section, spoke also: "first and foremost I feel like human being. There's no contradiction in sympathy and empathy and working for human rights for those considered to be your enemies."
• The Forgotten People continues at the Central Library, in the Ilac Centre, Dublin 1 until Sat, Aug 26
continues at the Central Library, in the Ilac Centre, Dublin 1 until Sat, Aug 26