Only 70 km separates the shores of Tel Aviv and the shores of Gaza, but a deep abyss of cultures, opinions, people, economic status and what does not open between the two sides of the conflict.
This is exactly the amazing project of two Pulitzer Prize photographers The Palestinian, who covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the AP news agency. Since Israel annexed the army from Gaza in 2005, Balilti, like most of us, has not visited Gaza. Hamra, on the other hand, has never visited Tel Aviv. The two have met only once in 2003 at a photo exhibition in
Europe.To carry out the photo project, they communicated via zoom, shared photos of each other and tried to find similar photos, each at a beach that is close and accessible to him.
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(Photo: AP, Oded Balilty, Khalil Hamra)
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See Gaza through Khalil's eyes
According to Balilty, the project made him feel like he "sees Gaza through Khalil's eyes."
For Hamra, the collection of similar photos from Tel Aviv and Gaza, which show young guys on the beach, made him very excited.
These young people, around the beginning of the 20s, not IDF uniforms and fought against these young people on the Palestinian side is not demonstrated or fought alongside the border fence. "These guys just relaxed, swam in the sea, enjoyed," says Hamra.
Israel and Hamas, which took the government in 2007, fought four wars since 2008, most recently in May. rockets fired from Gaza landed in Tel Aviv and attacks by Israeli planes toppled high-rise buildings in Gaza, in addition to the navy shelled the town beach.
Nevertheless, today a typical summer beach reveals A humanity shared by Israelis and Palestinians, tens of miles apart, all warming up in the same Mediterranean sun, all watching the waves crashing to the shore and all reveling in the long summer days that have passed.
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(Photo: AP, Oded Balilty, Khalil Hamra)
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(Photo: AP, Oded Balilty, Khalil Hamra)
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(Photo: AP, Oded Balilty, Khalil Hamra)
(Photo: AP, Oded Balilty, Khalil Hamra)
(Photo: AP, Oded Balilty, Khalil Hamra)