Published June 22nd, 2020 – 07:09 GMT
There is smoke from burning tires, gas, and moving crowds. Snipers are at a distance.
Some were taking part in clashes, others were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some of them wish to be dead, it would be easier. Others want to challenge the whole world, to remain strong, but inside they are broken.
Along the border of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army uses snipers who, according to instructions, open fire only when the soldiers are at risk from intensifying violence from Palestinian rioters.
In the Gaza Strip, the cramped territory of two million people controlled by Hamas and under Israeli blockade, residents have grown accustomed to traumatic wounds after the three Israeli aggressions in 2008, 2012 and 2014.
There residents complain of increasing violence from the Israeli police, which says it is responding to growing unrest by the population.
In recent years police, there have used spongy synthetic rubber bullets, deemed in theory to be less lethal. But when fired at close range, they have been known to cause deaths.
This combination of pictures created on June 8, 2020, shows (top L to R) Ahmed al-Louth, who lost his left eye, posing during a photo session in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; Muath Amarneh, who lost his left eye, posing during a photo session in Ramallah; Mohammed Burqan, who lost his right eye, posing during a photo session in Jerusalem; (middle L to R) Jacqueline Shahada, who lost her left eye, posing during a photo session in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; Malek Issa, 9, lost his left eye
Sami Marsan, who lost his left eye in the ongoing conflict with Israel, poses during a photo session in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on February 4 , 2020. Along the border of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army uses snipers who, according to instructions, open fire only when the soldiers are at risk from intensifying violence from Palestinian rioters. Some were taking part in clashes, others simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. All were left scarred and their lives wrecked, even though in Palestinian society being injured while standing up to Israeli occupation is often lionised. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
Mai Abu Rawda, who lost her right eye, stands at the place where she was shot in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on May 28 , 2020. Along the border of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army uses snipers who, according to instructions, open fire only when the soldiers are at risk from intensifying violence from Palestinian rioters. Some were taking part in clashes, others simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. All were left scarred and their lives wrecked, even though in Palestinian society being injured while standing up to Israeli occupation is often lionised. Mahmud Hams / AFP
Ahmed al-Louth, who lost his left eye in the ongoing conflict with Israel, poses during a photo session in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on February 4 , 2020. Along the border of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army uses snipers who, according to instructions, open fire only when the soldiers are at risk from intensifying violence from Palestinian rioters. Some were taking part in clashes, others simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. All were left scarred and their lives wrecked, even though in Palestinian society being injured while standing up to Israeli occupation is often lionised. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
Ahmed al-Louth, who lost his left eye in the ongoing conflict with Israel, poses during a photo session in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on February 4 , 2020. Along the border of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army uses snipers who, according to instructions, open fire only when the soldiers are at risk from intensifying violence from Palestinian rioters. Some were taking part in clashes, others simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. All were left scarred and their lives wrecked, even though in Palestinian society being injured while standing up to Israeli occupation is often lionised. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
Jacqueline Shahada, who lost her left eye in the ongoing conflict with Israel, poses during a photo session in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on February 4, 2020. Along the border of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army uses snipers who, according to instructions, open fire only when the soldiers are at risk from intensifying violence from Palestinian rioters. Some were taking part in clashes, others simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. All were left scarred and their lives wrecked, even though in Palestinian society being injured while standing up to Israeli occupation is often lionised. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
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