Palestine Monitor: Photojournalism From Inside

Palestine Monitor [Editor]

Palestine Monitor is a news site that reports on the life of ordinary people living in occupied Palestine. Its pictorial output is often fascinating, and the latest photo-story is no exception.

Jenin Camp: Then and Now documents the terror of occupation for the inhabitants of a small refugee camp in the West Bank. The text makes for bitter reading, as with most tales from the West Bank.

The pictures, meanwhile, take a quietly contemplative stance, showing both the pride and strength of the people who survive these troubles, and the darker memories of terror that loom in the background. In one picture, confident children face the camera undaunted, while the wall behind them sports a childishly painted assault rifle.

Elsewhere, a fantastic scrap statue looks like it could adorn the front of a corporate headquarters, but its source gives a different mood altogether: the large metal horse was constructed out of car debris left after a vicious attack.

Palestine Monitor [Editor]
Statue of a large horse on the edge of the camp made out of scraps of cars destroyed in the attack
July 2008