Cast lead

WJ #141

di ActiveStills

Testo a cura di Matilde Castagna, Giulio Di Meo e Marika Ikonomu

“Non c’è tempo per i grandi funerali o i veri e propri addii. Lo sento… non ci resta molto tempo da vivere. Un grande razzo sta arrivando. Ci accontenteremo con un bacio sporco davanti e un veloce “addio” aspettando di nuovo la morte. Non c’è più tempo per gli addii…”

9 ottobre 2023 – Hiba Kamal Abu Nada

Hiba è stata uccisa nella sua casa nel sud di Gaza da un raid israeliano il 20 ottobre 2023. Aveva 32 anni.

 

 

“Piombo Fuso” del 2009 e “Colonna di nuvola” nel 2012 sono due offensive militari israeliane condotte nella Striscia di Gaza. 

L’operazione Piombo fuso, Cast lead, è stata lanciata sulla popolazione confinata nella Striscia. Nei 22 giorni dell’offensiva, in base ai dati delle Nazioni Unite, sono stati uccisi 1.440 palestinesi, di cui 431 bambini e 114 donne. I feriti sono stati 5.303, di cui 1.606 bambini e 828 donne. La Coalizione Uniti contro la tortura, in un report, ha definito le azioni dell’esercito israeliano contro i civili palestinesi a Gaza “gravi manifestazioni di violazioni dei diritti umani che costituiscono trattamenti o punizioni crudeli, inumani, degradanti o torture”.

L’operazione Colonna di nuvola è stata condotta dal 14 novembre al 21 novembre 2012. L’Ufficio dell’alto commissariato per i diritti umani ha sollevato “una serie di preoccupazioni in merito al rispetto da parte delle Forze di difesa israeliane (IDF) delle regole minime sulla condotta delle ostilità, tra cui distinzione, proposizionalità e precauzioni dell’attacco”. Nei giorni dell’offensiva sono morti, secondo l’Ocha, 3.223 palestinesi, la maggior parte a causa di attacchi per via aerea. Tra questi, 523 bambini, 232 bambine e 374 donne.

Il reportage

01 – Operation Cast Lead, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, 2.1.2009
A Palestinian looks at a destroyed building during Operation Cast Lead, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, January 2, 2009. The Israeli military offensive dubbed Operation Cast Lead lasted from December 27, 2008 until January 18, 2009. According to the UN, it resulted in the killing of 1,383 Palestinians, including 333 children and 114 women, and the injury of over 5,300. More than 3,400 Palestinian families had their homes completely destroyed. The firing of rockets and mortars by Palestinian armed groups towards Israel killed three Israeli civilians, injured some 180 and ten Israeli soldiers were also killed during the hostilities, including four in a “friendly fire” incident.

Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/42713/

 

02 – Aftermath, Operation Cast Lead, Shujayea, Gaza city, 25.1.2009
A Palestinian woman cries in front of her destroyed home, one week after the end of Operation Cast Lead, in Shujayea, east of Gaza city, Gaza Strip.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/45964/

 

03 – Aftermath of Israeli military assault, Gaza City, 25.11.2012
A man looks up at the ruins of a Palestinian football stadium hit by an Israeli air strike, Gaza City, November 25, 2012. The stadium also housed the Palestinian Paralympic Commiitee.
Photographer: Anne Paq
https://www.activestills.org/image/10649/

 

04 – Operation Cast Lead, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, 28.12.2008
Palestinians carry an injured youth just after the attack on the Al Saraya compound, which included a prison and some Hamas headquarters buildings, after it was struck by Israeli airstrikes during Operation Cast Lead.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/42264/

 

05 – Operation Cast Lead, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, 15.2.2009
John Ging, the Director of UNRWA Operations in the Gaza Strip shows the blaze after an Israeli air strike on a storage facility within the compound of the UNRWA headquarters, containing tons of food and sheltering hundreds of Palestinian refugees, Gaza city. 

Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/42636/

 

06 – Funeral of Rujdi Tamimi, Nabi Saleh, West Bank, 20.11.2012
Rujdi Tamimi’s family members mourn during his funeral in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, November 20, 2012. Tamimi died from his injuries after being shot with live bullets during clashes with Israeli forces during a Gaza solidarity protest in Nabi Saleh village. Rujdi was denied emergency medical help at the scene and later died of his wounds in a Ramallah hospital.
Photographer: Oren Ziv
https://www.activestills.org/image/9224/

 

07 – Protests against Israeli assault on Gaza, Nablus, West Bank, 21.11.2012
A Palestinian protester lies unconscious due to tear gas inhalation during a protest against the Israeli military strikes on Gaza, Nablus, West Bank, November 21, 2012.
Photographer: Ahmad Al-Bazz
https://www.activestills.org/image/10146/

 

08 – Victims of Israeli military assault, Gaza City, 19.11.2012
Mourners carry the bodies of the Al Dalu children during a funeral in which thousands participated, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, November 19, 2012. On November 18, 12 civilians, including five women, four children and one man from the Al Dalu family were killed. Two of their neighbours, an elderly woman and young man, were also killed. Nine other civilians in the area were wounded and several houses were also either completely destroyed or damaged after Israel bombed the Al Dalu home.
Photographer: Anne Paq
https://www.activestills.org/image/10434/

 

09 – Funeral of Rujdi Tamimi, Ramallah, West Bank, 20.11.2012
Nariman Tamimi clings to her eldest son as she mourns the loss of her younger brother Rujdi Tamimi. Rujdi was shot with live bullets during clashes with Israeli forces during a Gaza solidarity protest in Nabi Saleh village. He was denied emergency medical help at the scene and later died of his wounds in hospital. Ramallah, November 20, 2012.
Photographer: Oren Ziv
https://www.activestills.org/image/12085/

 

010 – Operation Cast Lead, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, 27.12.2008
Injured Palestinians wait for treatment in al-Shifa hospital on the first day of Operation Cast Lead.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/42658/

 

011 – Tal El Hawa neighborhood, Gaza City, 16.11.2012
Inside the family home of Hassan Al Dalu, completely destroyed after it was hit during an Israeli military air strike on November 14, Tal El Hawa neighborhood, Gaza City, November 16, 2012.
Photographer: Anne Paq
https://www.activestills.org/image/12078/

 

012 – Operation Cast Lead, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, 1.2.2009
Palestinian school children inspect their school which was partially demolished by Israeli attacks during Operation Cast Lead, Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/42615/

 

013 – Aftermath, Operation Cast Lead, az-zeitoun, Gaza, 19.1.2009
Palestinians salvage items and inspect the ruins of their homes which were destroyed by Israeli attacks during Operation Cast Lead in the az-Zeitoun area, Gaza city.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/45245/

 

014 – Damage from Israeli military assaults, Gaza City, 18.11.2012
Two children run across the ruins of what used to be buildings and a football field following five air strikes targeting the main police station in Al Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, November 18, 2012. Four houses populated by 40 people, including 20 children were completely destroyed in the airstrike. One woman, Nawal Faraj Abdulal (age 53), had her body pulled from the debris three hours after the attack. Ten others were also injured, including six children. Scores of neighboring houses were also damaged in the strikes.
Photographer: Anne Paq
https://www.activestills.org/image/10400/

 

015 – Operation Cast Lead, Northern Gaza Strip, 17.1.2009
A Palestinian sit in an area devastated by Israeli bombardments, during Operation Cast Lead, in Izbet Abed Rabbo area east of Jabalia, Gaza Strip.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/42672/

 

016 – Aftermath, Operation Cast Lead, Jabalia, Gaza Strip, 31.1.2009
Displaced Palestinians live in tents after their homes were destroyed during Operation Cast Lead, in East Jabalia.
Photographer: Mohammed Zaanoun
https://www.activestills.org/image/45869/

Scheda autore

ActiveStills

Activestills è un collettivo di fotografi documentaristi palestinesi, israeliani e internazionali che operano in Palestina, Israele e all’estero. È nato nel 2005 ed è una struttura indipendente auto organizzata, basata sulla convinzione che il lavoro collettivo sia al servizio dell’espressione personale di ogni fotografo e che i progetti congiunti creino potenti dichiarazioni condivise. Activestills è pienamente impegnato nella lotta del popolo palestinese, per i loro diritti e libertà, e mira a sensibilizzare su questioni generalmente assenti dal discorso pubblico o presentate in modo fuorviante dai media.

Activestills is a collective of Palestinian, Israeli and international documentary photographers working in Palestine, Israel and abroad. It was born in 2005 and is an independent, self-organised independent structure based on the belief that mutual work serves each photographer’s personal expression, and that joint projects create powerful shared statements. Activestills is fully committed to the struggle of the Palestinian people, and their rights and freedom, and aims to raise awareness on issues that are generally absent from public discourse, or presented in a misleading way by the media.

Link

Report Committee Against Torture (CAT)

Coalizione Uniti contro la tortura

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner on the resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1

Ocha – Data on casualties

Hiba Abu Nada

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