Looking At The Situation

Katie Orlinsky, a freelance photographer, chose to spend two weeks in Gaza.

According to Ethan Bronner, "what most struck her, she says, was the depth of human experience.

and he explains:

“From the bullet hole in the wall above the child playing on his outdated computer in a middle-class home, to the couple having dinner sipping Coca-Cola smuggled in from Egypt, the situation in Gaza — the war, the blockade, Hamas — touches everyone,” she said. “I saw energetic, smart young women learning about the world in university, and I saw young girls who spent their days sorting through trash to find reusable materials to sell to factories for a few measly shekels. I saw happy families taking a break from their daily struggle to have a picnic on the beach, and met a traumatized family who hasn’t been to the beach in two years even though it’s only a 15-minute drive from their home.”

What I see is a people that refuses to free itself from the Hamas rule.

No demonstrations.

No opposition.

No unwillingness to seek to release themselves from the true occupation and oppression from which they suffer.

I guess it's all a matter of how you look at the situation.


P.S.

Is the women at the right in picture #2 the same woman stepping out in picture #8?

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