Before the genocide, life in Gaza was both unbearably hard and unbearably beautiful.
As the world has focused on the Gaza genocide, a massive Israeli campaign of violence and displacement has taken place across the West Bank. Photojournalist David Lombeida tells the stories of families in the South Hebron Hills and Jordan Valley.
Many Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt since the start of the war and suffer from poverty as they struggle to contact their loved ones. “Whenever I watch TV, I die a hundred times a day,” says Amnah Alshimbari, whose family remains in Gaza.
References to ‘cycles of violence’ dominate the mainstream media’s coverage of Palestine, but this ignores the violence of Palestinians’ daily reality living under Israeli colonialism.
As the siege of Shu’fat refugee camp enters its fourth day, Palestinians there have launched a massive civil disobedience campaign to oppose Israel’s policy of collective punishment.
Palestinians in Gaza have been demonized to the point that their humanity is often lost. Through his photography Mahmoud Nasser seeks to capture the people of Gaza beyond images of pain and misery; to see them as the people they are.
It does not take long to realize the true value of Gaza’s shores to its people. In no other place do you see the people in such a joyful state, and it is exactly for this reason that the shores of Gaza hold such deep meaning.
Photos from the last day in Gaza, where 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes.
Artists are responding to Israel’s annexation threat by producing posters in solidarity with Palestine. Here is a collection of 20 images from protests around the world curated by the Palestine Poster Project Archives.
Ramadan is underway in the tightly packed Gaza Strip. Officials have eased some restrictions on social distancing allowing Palestinians a reprieve from isolation to buy sweets and gifts to celebrate the Islamic holy month.