On Saturday 27th December 2008, the Israeli army launched a sudden attack on Gaza. Its objectives: to bring Hamas to submission for eight years of rocket launches into Israel.
When Israel's own foreign minister declared that the army had been encouraged to "go crazy", it seemed the sense of morality that should accompany conflict and violence had been lost.
During the 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, with Jan Grarup, a respected Danish photojournalist.
Even these images found little exposure to the outside world, and the BBC for the first time controversially blocked an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee for aid to Gaza. They include the moment when civilians sheltering in a UN compound were subjected to white phosphorous bombs: a relentless rain of inextinguishable fire-balls falling from the sky, burning continually when in contact with oxygen, and on contact with flesh right through to the bone.
Jan Grarup, Mohamed Abed, Abid Katib, Adel Zaanoun and Wissam Nassar captured the images that nobody wanted to show, and that Israel tried to censor. Four Palestinians and one European - and one brutal reality of an attack on innocent civilians, aid agencies and the press.
Noam Chomsky, the respected political commentator, has agreed for his account of the history of the conflict to be published as an introduction to the images.
During the 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, with Jan Grarup, a respected Danish photojournalist.
Even these images found little exposure to the outside world, and the BBC for the first time controversially blocked an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee for aid to Gaza. They include the moment when civilians sheltering in a UN compound were subjected to white phosphorous bombs: a relentless rain of inextinguishable fire-balls falling from the sky, burning continually when in contact with oxygen, and on contact with flesh right through to the bone.
Jan Grarup, Mohamed Abed, Abid Katib, Adel Zaanoun and Wissam Nassar captured the images that nobody wanted to show, and that Israel tried to censor. Four Palestinians and one European - and one brutal reality of an attack on innocent civilians, aid agencies and the press.
Noam Chomsky, the respected political commentator, has agreed for his account of the history of the conflict to be published as an introduction to the images.
ISBN: 978-1-907112-00-3
Publication Year: 2009
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 192
Format: 260 x 187
Illustrations: 100 colour
Retail Price: UK £19.99 \ US $35.00 \ EURO €24.95 \ CAN $0.00 \ AUS $0.00
Designer: Fruitmachine
List: Photojournalism/Current Affairs
Publication Year: 2009
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 192
Format: 260 x 187
Illustrations: 100 colour
Retail Price: UK £19.99 \ US $35.00 \ EURO €24.95 \ CAN $0.00 \ AUS $0.00
Designer: Fruitmachine
List: Photojournalism/Current Affairs
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