"Over the past two years in Gaza, the world has witnessed one of the worst onslaughts against a civilian population in recent history and has been unwilling or unable to stop it. More than 66,200 people have been killed and nearly 169,000 injured, meaning that about one in 10 of Gaza's Palestinian population have been casualties of Israel's military campaign. After the Israeli army destroyed a mosque and wrote on it in Hebrew, someone from Gaza wrote on the dome: A promise we will construct it.' Gaza City, 24 February 2025"
"Israel says its target is Hamas but more than 80% of the deaths have been civilians. A UN human rights report has deemed that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. The survivors have endured prolonged famine as a result of a deliberate Israeli policy of cutting off food supplies, and the Israel Defense Forces have made much of the Gaza Strip uninhabitable. According to a recent survey by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, about 70% of Gaza's buildings have sustained severe damage."
"The statistics are shocking but impersonal. Through her photographs, Enas Tantesh has recorded what those crude numbers mean in intimate terms what it looks like when your home and community are pulverised. Before the war started, with a deadly Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Tantesh had never considered being a photographer. She was finishing high school and following in the footsteps of her father, a locally celebrated and widely beloved swimming instructor, and had started to teach children in her home town of Beit Lahiya. However, as the Israeli bombardment took its toll and increasing numbers of Gaza's journalists either fled or were killed, her older sister Malak began writing for the Guardian and other European newspapers. Around the same time, in the spring of 2024, Enas sta"
More than 66,200 people have been killed and nearly 169,000 injured in Gaza over two years, with about one in ten Palestinians becoming casualties of the Israeli military campaign. Israel says its target is Hamas, but more than 80% of the deaths have been civilians, and a UN human rights report has deemed Israel's actions genocide. Survivors have endured prolonged famine after food supplies were deliberately cut off, and much of the Gaza Strip has been made uninhabitable. A recent survey found about 70% of buildings sustained severe damage. Local photographer Enas Tantesh, a former high‑school student from Beit Lahiya, began photographing in spring 2024 to record intimate human losses as journalists fled or were killed.
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