Ahmad Mutair was asleep at 6:00 a.m. By the time the sun had risen, he had been killed. Dozens of Israeli occupation forces entered Qalandia refugee camp in an early morning raid. Ahmad was standin (...)
g on his roof when an Israeli sniper shot a bullet that ripped through his chest and exited his back. Ahmad was 17 years old and a fourth-generation refugee. October 23, 2023. © Maen Hammad
Clothes belonging to Gazan laborers hang out to dry on a soccer goal at the Redanna Sports Complex in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. This sports complex has been transformed into a refuge (...)
for over 450 Palestinian laborers from Gaza who were trapped inside Israel when the war erupted. These workers spend their days attempting to contact their family members amid Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. One laborer remarked, "My family relocates from one area to another, only to find it's become even more dangerous. Yesterday morning was the last time I spoke to them. I just want to hear my grandchildren's voices. We don't need food and water; we want to return to Gaza. We are willing to sacrifice everything for our homeland." October 13, 2023. © Maen Hammad
A young Palestinian man has his face shielded with a keffiyeh during a confrontation with the Israeli regime near the illegal Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh. The keff (...)
iyeh, a traditional headdress, serves as both a symbol of Palestinian identity and a national emblem. October 12, 2023. © Maen Hammad
A Palestinian mother cries next to the body of her son, who was killed in the Israeli raids on the grounds of Al-Shifa Hospital. They are outside the morgue, waiting for any means of transportation (...)
to transport him and bury him in Gaza City. October 8, 2023. © Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times
Palestinian children looking towards the sky at the sound of airstrikes as families seek refuge from the northern Gaza Strip in United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools inside Gaza Ci (...)
ty due to the events on the Strip’s borders. October 7, 2023. © Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times