This is a photographic journey through the life of Gaza inhabitants. It began during the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, (that ended with 2143 people killed, 480 of them children and more than 11,500 wounded) to continue with the immediate aftermath that left the Strip frozen in misery six months later, without options or hope for a better future. Nowadays, the situation of Palestinians in Gaza continue to worsen. The lack of electricity, water and heating, coupled with a null drainage system, lack of employment, blocked materials and fuel to help rebuilding and revitalizing the damaged economy, make survival a real challenge.
This is a photographic journey through the life of Gaza inhabitants. It began during the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, (that ended with 2143 people killed, 480 of them children and more than 11,500 wounded) to continue with the immediate aftermath that left the Strip frozen in misery six months later, without options for a population that has lost all hope of a better future.
The war that I witnessed, proved an unprecedented situation, a relentless accumulation of indiscriminate bombing of civilians, not asurgical operation against military positions. The bombings followed one another relentlessly, throughout the city, destroying buildings, hospitals, entire neighborhoods, reducing bodies, lives and feelings to ashes. The saddest feeling was that it was a "war children". Day after day hospitals, the ones still standing and that weren't bombed, were filled with women and children with lost stare and terrified expression. Morgues, crowded, hectic keep swallowing and spiting dead. Cemeteries filled their holes with too small coffins.
Six months after the end of that bloody war, the situation of Palestinians in Gaza continues to worsen. The lack of electricity, water and heating, together with low winter temperatures, the very heavy rains of the season, which have caused flooding, the null drainage system, coupled with the lack of employment, blocking materials and fuel to help rebuild and revitalize the damaged economy of the region, makes survival a real challenge.