The Sea Huts are a coastal resort in Rafah, Palestine, a kilometer from the Egyptian border.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
Despite Israel’s crippling siege of the Gaza Strip, the hotel’s proprietors have engineered a solution to every need for their establishment, with the possible exception of paying customers.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
Because of the difficulty of importing building materials, the detached apartments, as well as the sculptures surrounding them, have been sculpted almost entirely from local clay.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
Many of the sculptures serve practical purposes. This whale, for example, stores an assortment of hookahs and other shisha paraphernalia.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
Another one conceals the entrance to a tunnel, from which much of the clay used in the resort’s construction was extracted.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
The tunnel’s design is conventional, if unusually spacious and well-lit.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
But unlike most in Rafah, it leads to the beach only meters away.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
SOOO COOL JOE!
Joe
You must find the whole situation absurd . there was a video last year of a viva Palestina convoy arriving in Gaza and it was so striking to see how the failure of politics can betray a whole people. They don’t celebrate the arrival of trucks of food in Rafah in Sinai but across the border in Gaza they do. All because of Zionism. The Zionist space has 6 castes
Ashkenazi Jews
Mizrahi Jews
1948 Palestinians
East Jerusalem Palestinians
West Bank Palestinians
Gazans
And the Gazans are right at the bottom.
so many decent people forced to live in a senseless system.
beauty amidst suffering.
Quoting Uri Avnery: “The best solution is to reintegrate Palestinians, a great people with tremendous commercial and economic skills, into Israel.”