On Saturday December 27th 2008 the Israeli army launched
a sudden attack on Gaza. It was in contrast to the attack on
Lebanon in August 2006, which by comparison was judged to be
badly planned and unsuccessful; its objectives to bring Hamas to
submission for their rocket launches over the past eight years into
Israel.
After its own foreign minister said that Israel s army had
been allowed to go wild there, the sense of morality that
should accompany conflict and violence seems to have been
lost.
Here we get a visual feeling of what it means for a school,
sheltering civilians, to be subjected to white phosphorous bombs
- a rain of inextinguishable fire balls falling from the sky in all
directions, deliberately designed to cause maximum death and
destruction.
During the two month-long seige the international media
was denied access to cover the true extent of the escalating
attack, and so it was left to Palestinian photographers within the
territory, and Jan Grarup, a respected Danish photojournalist.
Even these images found little exposure to the outside world.
The BBC for the first time controversially blocked an appeal by
the Disasters Emergency Committee for aid.
Jan Grarup, Mohamed Elzanoun, Aberdhaman Elkhateeb and
Mohamed Papa captured the images that nobody wanted to
show, and that Israel tried to censor. On one side the view of a
European, on the other three Palestinian photographers. Two
points of view, one reality of brutal attack to innocent civilians,
Aid Agencies and the Press.
a sudden attack on Gaza. It was in contrast to the attack on
Lebanon in August 2006, which by comparison was judged to be
badly planned and unsuccessful; its objectives to bring Hamas to
submission for their rocket launches over the past eight years into
Israel.
After its own foreign minister said that Israel s army had
been allowed to go wild there, the sense of morality that
should accompany conflict and violence seems to have been
lost.
Here we get a visual feeling of what it means for a school,
sheltering civilians, to be subjected to white phosphorous bombs
- a rain of inextinguishable fire balls falling from the sky in all
directions, deliberately designed to cause maximum death and
destruction.
During the two month-long seige the international media
was denied access to cover the true extent of the escalating
attack, and so it was left to Palestinian photographers within the
territory, and Jan Grarup, a respected Danish photojournalist.
Even these images found little exposure to the outside world.
The BBC for the first time controversially blocked an appeal by
the Disasters Emergency Committee for aid.
Jan Grarup, Mohamed Elzanoun, Aberdhaman Elkhateeb and
Mohamed Papa captured the images that nobody wanted to
show, and that Israel tried to censor. On one side the view of a
European, on the other three Palestinian photographers. Two
points of view, one reality of brutal attack to innocent civilians,
Aid Agencies and the Press.
