Gaza in Photos

After 8 days of Israeli airstrike, almost 200 innocent people have died and thousands have been seriously injured in Gaza. The mainstream media almost everywhere in the world has presented this attack as retaliation against the killing of three Israeli teenagers in June this year. The fact that two Palestinian youths were killed by Israeli forces on 15th May seems to have been systematically concealed by these agencies. Israel, with its highly developed technology and the support of its allies, launched a military offensive against Gaza which resulted in a complete bloodbath. The scale of violence and destruction is unfathomable for those of us who’re not there. Photos prove helpful in such cases.

Allan Sorenson, a Middle Eastern correspondent for the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad, took the image on Wednesday in Sderot, a city about two kilometers from Gaza. The people who had gathered on the hilltop, cheered and clapped every time they observed a hit on Gaza from the Israeli missiles. The iconic image of the lynching of two young African-Americans in 1930 with cheering white onlookers juxtaposed with the Sderot images has been doing the rounds of twitter and also on other social media.

All respect to brave Gaza medical and ambulance crews who dodge airstrikes to save lives from Israeli massacre.

A child's plea.

The sheer surreality of it all.

BBC's biased reporting.

 Even children know the truth.

Fresh graves for the 17 members of the Al Batish family. They were all killed.

Only a wheelchair remains after the Israeli airstrike killed two people in a disabled centre.

A family looks at what was once its home. Now it's just rubble. 

Photos courtesy: Sabbah.biz