Galería de Fotografías en Gaza de Ali Jadallah - Palestina

 Ali Jadallah  Anadolu Agency Photographer based in Gaza.

Ali has spent his professional life using his camera to chronicle Gaza, including decades of destruction and loss. Insaniyyat had the pleasure of working with him briefly in 2021 on the Souq Stories project during a period that now seems long past. Ali contributed stunning images of Gaza’s then bustling markets, shrunken and limited after decades of Israeli blockade, yet vibrant in their minutiae nonetheless. At the online meetings with the project’s other photographers in seven cities in Palestine, Ali always kept the mood upbeat, regularly cracking jokes. He missed a few meetings, preferring to be out taking photos. But he was swift to submit photographs and reply to our team’s messages. When we were finally able to send his modest stipend to Gaza, we wrote on the envelope “thank you for your efforts, that made the impossible possible.” He kindly replied “This is the best thing I’ve ever received, and we will make the impossible possible together.”

In October 2023 Ali was thrust into the center of the narrative he had long been reporting on.

Reaching Ali since Israel started bombing the Strip again this October has been difficult. He has courageously continued to visually document the harrowing violence that spares no one in Gaza and to get out the images to news organizations. Under extreme circumstances, he has managed to post on Instagram, narrating his painful odyssey amidst the unending horror, devastation and loss - which we share here. Unless otherwise noted, the quotations attributed to Ali are all from his Instagram page; we have chosen to include only some of his photographs here. More: https://www.insaniyyat.org/new-page-2-1-1-1-1-1