Alareer Refaat – Gaza unsilenced by Gaza Unsilenced (2023)

Author:Gaza Unsilenced (2023)
Language: fra
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-10T18:00:40+00:00

they demonstrated for people in Gaza. That’s why international solidarity is so important now.”

Waging Nonviolence, August 8, 2014, http://bit.ly/1FaQxaB

Gaza Traces

Kim Jensen

A shorter version of this essay will be published in Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine (New York: OR Books, Fall 2015) edited by Ru Freeman.

We have been asked where we stand, as writers and artists, in relation to the systematic human rights violations against the Palestinian people. In order to approach this question, I want to draw closer to this mesmerizing image of three children on a beach in the Gaza strip that was widely shared on social media during the Israeli assault this past summer. Studying the photograph and the story of its origins may shed light on what it means to bear witness to a human catastrophe.

During the military siege on Gaza in the summer of 2014, many international journalists were staying at Al-Deira Hotel, overlooking the Mediterranean. Reporters and cameramen often watched the children of fishermen playing on the beach in front of the hotel, and sometimes went down to play with them.

At 4 pm on July 16, a day of heavy bombardments, the Israeli navy targeted a ramshackle hut where fishermen stored their nets.

No Palestinian resistance fighters were present, as numerous eyewitnesses testified, but a group of children was playing nearby.

After the first explosion, the survivors ran for safety. A few seconds later, the Israelis let loose a second attack directly aiming at the fleeing children. Four of them—Ismael Muhammad Bakr, ZakariaAhedBakr, AhedAtifBakr, and Muhammad RamizBakr—were killed. Journalists who witnessed and filmed the incident later

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