{"id":18334,"date":"2024-02-04T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/portraits-of-gazans-and-the-destruction-of-the-israel-hamas-war\/04\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:06:18","slug":"portraits-of-gazans-and-the-destruction-of-the-israel-hamas-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/portraits-of-gazans-and-the-destruction-of-the-israel-hamas-war\/04\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of Gazans and the Destruction of the Israel-Hamas War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By <\/span>Declan Walsh<\/a><\/span> and Samar Abu Elouf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Photographs by <\/span>Samar Abu Elouf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Samar Abu Elouf, a photojournalist, spent weeks documenting five Palestinians in Gaza whose lives had been shattered by the war. Declan Walsh is an international correspondent for The New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A toddler, a teenager, a mother, a photojournalist.<\/p>\n

Their lives were ripped apart in one of the deadliest and most destructive wars of the 21st century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, now in its fourth month, is often conveyed in stark numbers and historical comparisons: Some 27,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza health ministry. Nearly two million are displaced and more than 60 percent of residential buildings<\/a> have been damaged or destroyed in a territory smaller than Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Yet the lives behind those statistics are often hidden from view. Internet and cellphone services are frequently cut; international reporters cannot enter Gaza except on escorted trips with the Israeli military; and dozens of Palestinian journalists have been killed<\/a> in a military campaign prompted by the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

Samar Abu Elouf, a photojournalist for The New York Times, spent weeks following a handful of Palestinians who seemed to have lost everything: a boy with charred limbs, a journalist who lost four of his children in an Israeli strike, an orphaned toddler who may never walk again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n