A woman screams for her son who was shot while trying to collect aid from a truck near the Zikim crossing, in the north of Gaza along the coast, and is being rushed to hospital on the same truck. Gaza City, Gaza Strip.
In 2025, civilians in Gaza endured starvation, famine, and relentless bombardment as the death toll surpassed 75,000 people and Israeli authorities severely restricted the flow of humanitarian aid. A fragile ceasefire went into effect in October, allowing some aid to enter Gaza, but Israeli airstrikes continued and the humanitarian situation remains critical. Palestinian journalists – living through the reality they document – are the world’s few witnesses to what an independent United Nations Human Rights Commission inquiry has concluded is a genocide. Israel disputes this. The photographer worked under immense danger, driven by a refusal to let the world turn away. “Even when everything around me told me to stop, I couldn't – silence would mean surrender.”
