My purpose in my search for one iconic photograph is to find inspiration and meaning, to tell a story of courage on this Nakba Day, of the love for homeland and the fight for justice, a story that will give me and I hope you, the reader, the strength to help the “child,” to keep us emotionally engaged and responsive, rather than devastated by grief and terror. Getty Images identifies him as “an activist” of al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and says in the caption, “nine schoolboys were wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers guarding the settlement of Kfar Darom following the march.” Note how the passive voice used in the caption skirts around the fact these schoolboys were Palestinian children wounded by Israeli soldiers. Through such juxtapositions and outright censorship, Western media has long manipulated the context of images or censored photographs and videos that document Israel’s human rights abuses, military brutality or even the daily struggles of Palestinians, thus limiting exposure to these issues to a global audience and hindering the ability of photojournalists to raise awareness of the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Author: Rima Najjar
Published at: 2025-05-14 22:38:53
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