Fatima Shbair’s photo of a girl in her ruined home is an indelible image of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s resurgence in MayRead more in our series: Forgotten
Human Rights crises 2021For 11 days in May, Fatima Shbair hardly slept. When the most recent rounds of fighting in
Gaza broke out between Israelis and
Palestinians on 10 May, the 24-year-old freelance photographer said goodbye to her mother and left her home to document the stories of her neighbours in Gaza, as their lives were racked by terror.
The conflict featured waves of pre-dawn
Israeli air raids and rocket
fire from Gazan territory. Palestinians made up the vast majority of more than 250 people killed.