
“Eso: una esperanza.” Just a hope. At the Kamal Aduan Hospital, Jabalya, while injured people and bodies arrived after the attack at the UNRWA School in Jabalya. Gaza, 30/07/14 Photograph: Eduardo Soteras Jalil
Some of the people I respect most in Israel and Palestine have been writing posts with the word “hope” in the title and gloom in the content. The “hope” of this picture’s title refers to the dashed one reflected in a message on a tee-shirt, but the photograph says more. Here hope looks like worry. The photograph is not an iconic image; it will not change the world or last for the ages. Continue reading