The waters off Gaza are off-limits to fishermen, who have lost all freedom to sail there and carry out their work. Yet they continue to seek solutions.
Author Hamed Sbeata
Hamed Sbeata
I was born in 2001 and am from Gaza. A director and cinematographer, I have worked extensively as a media producer for numerous television channels and agencies. I never expected to become a war photographer. I ventured into the difficult period we are currently experiencing to tell what people are living through here, and to produce stories and documentaries about the human reality of Gaza.
A drawing and colour painting workshop by the sea in Gaza. Discovering what Noura invented gave me hope.
Haifa Bassam Abu Shamleh, a cellist and computer graphics designer from Gaza, today makes music for her people, by the sea.
Little Hour has lived her entire life in genocide, contracting cancer and deformities, waiting for an evacuation that never comes.
In Gaza, Israel has killed 97% of the animals. Only 6% of the donkeys are still alive. Ahmed, aged 10, has been protecting his best friend for two years.
The Gaza camps in the mud are further proof of the uninhabitable conditions to which Israel continues to subject Palestinians.
During the genocide, peasant women in Gaza gathered in local forums and tried everything to continue feeding the population.
Mohammed doesn't know what it means to be born in Gaza in the midst of a genocide, but his story, just begun, already carries all the signs of it.
Photojournalist Hamed Sbeata documents in his images the sad exodus of hundreds of thousands of residents from Gaza.
In Gaza, the only remaining open resource to search for food is the sea. But Israel also prevents fishing.
Mohammed Ma'rouf has not spoken for over a year. He is not even six years old. He survived an Israeli airstrike on the school where he had been displaced.
Malnutrition in Gaza due to forced starvation imposed by Israel is making survival almost impossible for newborns.
Before the devastation, Yaman used to go to school. Today he is a child labourer in Gaza. He burns plastic for 12 euros a day.
The Islamic University of Gaza was among the first places to be bombed by Israel in 2023. Displaced families are now sheltering in its ruins.
During the night between Palm Saturday and Sunday, Israel bombed the last fully functioning hospital in Gaza City.
The owner of a tailoring academy in Rafah, Walaa Abu Dafa has lost everything due to Israeli bombings. Except for her determination and dignity.
In Gaza, children have started taking books from the rubble of the university to light fires and cook food.
One day we will speak of the camps in Gaza with words and sentiments similar to those with which the survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto told of their lives.
In Deir al-Balah, in the centre of Gaza, Khadija's school is set up among tents, in the makeshift shelters found by the displaced.
The Great Mosque of Gaza in the Old City, in its 700-year history, has overcome many wars and destructions. It will overcome this one too.