‘She stood in silence, remembering’: photographing Gaza under airstrikes
by Sarah Johnson from on (#5TF46)
Fatima Shbair's photo of a girl in her ruined home is an indelible image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's resurgence in May
For 11 days in May, Fatima Shbair hardly slept. When the most recent rounds of fighting in Gaza broke out between Israelis and Palestinians on 10 May, the 24-year-old freelance photographer said goodbye to her mother and left her home to document the stories of her neighbours in Gaza, as their lives were racked by terror.
The conflict featured waves of pre-dawn Israeli air raids and rocket fire from Gazan territory. Palestinians made up the vast majority of more than 250 people killed.
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