EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS:
GAZA UNPLUGGED
Gaza is considered to be the world’s „largest prison“. As a result of the „suffering“ of the people, peace activisits from all over the world send „flotillas“ to break the „illegal siege“. But what does it really look like in Gaza? A new Palestinian photo agency in Gaza, Safa-Images, has specialized on documenting Palestinian „suffering“. The pictures of the daily life, which can be found on the Safa-Images website, present a whole new insight, unlike anything ever seen from any of the international news agencies: a newly opened shopping center with overstocked shelves; abundant markets with fresh fruit; water parks unlike any other; happy beach life and much more…
All pictures were taken in Gaza within the past two months!
To enlarge the pictures, please click on the thumbnails. You will be taken directly to the safa images website, where the original pictures can be viewed.
The texts below the pictures are the original, unedited texts from the safa images website.
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PART 1 – Gaza unplugged…
PART 1 – Gaza unplugged...
- July 20th, 2010 – Opening of a new shopping mall…
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Palestinians attend the opening of the largest shopping mall in Gaza City on July 17,2010. -
Palestinian shoppers browse in a supermarket at a newly opened shopping mall in Gaza City July 20, 2010. The mall, the first of its kind in Gaza, opened to the public last week and contains about 15 shops, including a supermarket and clothing stores.
- The border to Egypt controlled by Hamas…
- Graduation ceremony at the College of Applied Sciences…
- Beach impressions…
- A training camp…
- Extracurricular activities: horse jumping…
- A museum…
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General view to the ancient Basha’s Palace museum in Gaza City on July 15, 2010. The Basha’s Palace stands out as a building of historic value in the centre of Gaza City. The Emperor Napoleon considered it the most suitable place to stay with his entourage during three nights spent in the ancient city in the middle of his military campaign in Egypt and Syria in February 1799. The museum does not only tell the history of the building, but address other periods of history, and display exhibits from the Gaza Strip Department of Antiquities collection. The museum has now become a beautiful place for hosting cultural and educational activities for the local community and visitors and it is financed by the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip.
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- Private recreational activities …
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A Palestinian man sit on one side of the roof of his house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, near the border with Egypt, on July 14, 2010, where he has recreated Egypt’s landmark sites with mural paintings and sculptures, including the Pyramids of Giza and a remake of an Um Kulthum Cafe, named after the late Egyptian diva who died in 1975.
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- Opening of a new street…
- An unbelievable scrapping…
- Part of the daily transports include…
- Public viewing during the World Cup…
- Street construction…
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Palestinian workers lay asphalt as a street is paved in Gaza City using funding from the ruling Hamas government on July 11, 2010. The impoverished Palestinian territory of 1.5 million people has been under a crippling blockade since militants captured an Israeli soldier in a deadly cross-border raid in 2006 with Israel tightening its grip after the Islamist movement Hamas seized control of Gaza the following year.
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- A market…
- A holiday camp…
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Palestinian boys perform exercises during a summer camp run by Hamas in Gaza City on July 8,2010. In Gaza, summer camps aren’t just about swimming, crafts and volleyball. They’re about capturing the hearts of children. In the stark setting of this crowded, conflict-scarred patch of land, the United Nations and the territory’s Hamas rulers are competing to reach youngsters with very different messages.
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- A parade of a special sort…
- Another graduation ceremony : Hamas military medical personnel…
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Palestinian military medical officers take part in the graduation ceremony in Gaza city on July 7,2010. US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed into a White House meeting Tuesday with the goal to move the Israelis and Palestinians to resume face-to-face peace talks, after a rocky White House meeting between Obama and Netanyahu in March following Israel’s surprise announcement of plans for new construction in east Jerusalem.
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- A new prison…
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Palestinian policemen stand guards at the door of Hamas new prison in Gaza city on July 6,2010.The detention facility was opened after the main prison was destroyed during Israel’s 22-day military offensive last winter. According to Hamas police, number of prisoners accused of spying for the Israeli intelligence and a number of other defendants in the transfer of information to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and other criminal charges and drug trafficking are jailed in the Gaza Strip.
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- Visit to a school: Grading of final exams...
- Another market…
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Palestinians shop at a market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 3, 2010. Israel is still deciding exactly what it will and will not allow into Gaza under a new approach towards the enclave, which it has blockaded for four years. As it changes the policy, some previously banned goods have started to flow across the border. As yet, there is no sign of the basic materials and machine parts which aid workers and businessmen say Gaza needs if the homeless are to be rehoused and the economy is to be revived to alleviate growing poverty attributed to the blockade.
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- A technology equipment exhibition…
- A crazy water park with restaurant and more…
- Visit from Egypt…
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[Enlarging the photo with the guest present is worthwhile…!]
Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Strip, Ismail Haneya meets the Egyptian delegation in Gaza, July 1, 2010. Egyptian delegation entered Gaza during a visit to Gaza which has been under the Israeli blockade since Hamas seized control of the strip in June 2007.
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- Another graduation ceremony: Hamas police…
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Palestinian Hamas police officers march during a graduation ceremony at the police headquarters in Gaza City, Thursday, July 1, 2010.
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- Recreational activity:horse riding…
- Visit from Indonisia…
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[Enlarging the photo with the guest present is worthwhile…!]
Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Strip, Ismail Haneya meets the Indonesian delegation in Gaza, June 29, 2010. Indonesian delegation entered Gaza during a visit to Gaza which has been under the Israeli blockade since Hamas seized control of the strip in June 2007.
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- Recreational activity: An exhibition
- A summer camp…
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Palestinian girls play at a summer camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on the beach in Gaza City on June 28, 2010. UNRWA prepared 38 beach locations and 86 schools for its program entitled „Summer Games“, providing educational programs, physical education activities and recreation for the children and teenagers.
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- A day at the beach…
- Another graduation ceremony: This time Hamas security forces…
- Recreational activity: soccer…
- Another summer camp…
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Palestinian boys enjoy at a summer camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), on the beach in Gaza City, June 15, 2010. UNRWA has prepared 38 beach locations and 86 schools for its program entitled ‚Summer Games‘ providing educational programs, physical education activities and recreation for the children and teens.
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- A theatre play…
- An SOS Children’s Village…
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A Palestinian orphans play music in the SOS Children’s Village in Rafah the southern Gaza Strip on June 6, 2010. The school for orphans that was established in 2000 with the sponsorship of the Austrian SOS international, faces the threat of closure because of the longstanding Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.
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