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![](javascript:doblowup('Photogs At War','/images/uploaded/up_8FeKQ7.jpg','Photographers who work for the "wire services" with long lenses as we stand on a hill overlooking the northern Gaza Strip where the army was in operations with tanks and large bulldozers. The army was demolishing Palestinian houses. We are all standing in what the army has declared a "closed military area" and face arrest is police catch us.',700,700);)
 and spreads downwards as Palestinian militants shoot a rocket (R) northwards towards Ashkelon or Ashdod late on 16 January 2009. On the 21st day of Israel\'s war against Hamas ground troops continue to fight in Gaza, missile strikes continue and rocket attacks continue into southern Israel. Palestinians estimate over 1,100 people in Gaza have been killed in the war.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Smoke and Fire','/images/uploaded/up_EFaiOv.jpg','A large smoky fire burns out of control just inside the Gaza Strip near Nahal Oz and the Karni Crossing on 15 January 2009, the 20th day of Israel\'s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. <br />\r\n++++++++++++++<br />\r\nI believe this is the fire from the UN warehouse as it began burning early in the morning before Ban Ki-Moon\'s arrival in Tel Aviv. This was taken just at dawn, hiding from police against a Kibbutz fence. Police later in the day got me, took my press details and passport number and issued a stern warning about \'next time they caught me here\' as they escorted me out of the "closed military area." I asked to photograph the map showing the enormity of the closed area and they refused to let me - no answer or explanation given.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Day 18','/images/uploaded/up_77sNtd.jpg','An Israeli infantry soldier who had just returned to southern Israel from fighting inside the Gaza Strip since the ground operations commenced performs morning prayers early on 13 January 2009 in a staging area, before leaving on a bus for a base for rest. <br />\r\n+++++++++++<br />\r\nArriving with to other photographers in the dark, we avoided any "closure" police blocking out way and drove along the border and ran into this group of infantry who had just come out under cover of darkness from Gaza and were packing their gear. They let us work with no problems, the sun came up, some prayed, a lot smoked, no officer told us to get out. We left after they boarded buses and left for an army base where they will clean up, rest, smoke more, and probably go back into Gaza if this continues a few more days. In another area of the border I hear an Isralei photographer working for an international agency was detained, had his disks confiscated and formated and was issued a restraining order to not enter a "closed military area" again. ',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Tank Column Readies','/images/uploaded/up_6lgxZg.jpg','A column of Israeli tanks in final preparations for an advance into the Gaza Strip on 11 January 2009 morning, on the 16th day of the Israeli offensive against Hamas. <br />\r\n++++++<br />\r\nThe tank commander is not waving at me, but at some army officers who pass between me and the column of tanks. He was gesturing he and his men were ready to go. In order to shoot these photos one has to arrive before sun rise and sort of hide so army officers or police do not find you, as it is officially still a "closed military area." I was there first then five more vehicles came and parked, carrying the wire service photographers from AP, Reuters, AFP, and Sipa. Eventually we were kicked out by the military police but not until the column had gone into Gaza, way down the road.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('A Meal and a Prayer or God or Food ?','/images/uploaded/up_0IW8Hv.jpg','An Israeli soldier preforms prayers atop his armoured personnel carrier as a belt of 50-caliber bullets remain loaded in the vehicles\' weapon on 06 January 2008 as a group of APCs returned from fighting inside the Gaza Strip to a staging area along the Israeli - Gaza Strip border.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nNote to viewers and concerned photographers : Israel had declared the area around the Gaza Strip a "closed military area" and do not want photographers, of television crews snooping around to see what the equipment and troops are doing. So, in order t get a simple, non-descript picture even like this one, takes cunning, daring and a sense of adventure. Imagine!',700,700);)
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 as they make statements and answer a few questions following their meeting dealing with the crises over Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on 05 January 2009. From left to right: Swedish Foreign MInister Carl Bildt, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (who looks to Schwarzenberg), Benita Ferrero-Waldner from Austria, the European Commissioner for External Relations, and Javier Solano, Special EU envoy.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Massing Armour','/images/uploaded/up_StlpcX.jpg','An Israeli Merkava tank moves into place after it is was unloaded from a flatbed truck at a military staging near the border with the northern Gaza Strip. <br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nThe Israeli Spokesman\'s office served all journalists working near the border with a "closed military area" notice, ordering us out of a huge area - hundreds of square kilometers, along the Gaza Strip border. The army says this is for our "own protection." There might not be too many images coming from this war, except HANDOUT photos - something the army began doing last night. The handed out photos of tanks at this same area - of course taken cloe up and from vantage points we cannot have, for example climbing on a tank. We cannot do that. The army photographer can and by putting out these photos they, 1. realize there is a need to show the world something, even a "censored" version of events, which it is after all, and 2. they get into direct competition with the "free and open press" - - Us photographers. The army or the politicians want the war to be as clinical as possible so limit what we can see, then show us something and hope we\'ll be satisfied. I personally hate this kind of manipulation. I am a strong firm believer in a free press. I have complained and asked the Foreign Press Association to fight this immediately in the courts. My 2 cents of this subject, one I rant about from time to time as I free strongly about the ability of photojournalists to bring the reality of news events to the public, the publics right to know what is happening in their events- and events that have much broader worldly implications, and also the trickery involved in manipulating the press. What the public is shown is not always what it appears. Viewer should and must be aware - for example, the photos you look at tomorrow at the breakfast table - are they provided by a government agency or by a person who works for an independent source and is paid to provide facts. Or does it even matter - does the public care? I do. A lot of words to go with a simple photo, but that is how the expression goes.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('In A Shelter','/images/uploaded/up_0VIvmO.jpg','An Israeli woman reads a prayer book as others try to connect with relatives as a "red alert" sounds in the Southern Israeli town of Sderot on 29 December 2008 as a Kassam rocket is shot into the town from the Gaza Strip. <br />\r\n+++++++++++<br />\r\nThe rocket exploded about two hundred meters away with a loud crash and a black plume of smoke. I took shelter with these people as it was the closest shelter to the cafe where I was seated with other photographer working on our laptops getting photo "one the wire." I ran to the area of the attack and made the previous photo of the old woman screaming in shock.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Shock','/images/uploaded/up_5BjpIN.jpg','An elderly Israeli woman screams outside her apartment house in the southern town of Sderot moments after a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants inside the northern Gaza Strip on 29 December 2008 struck just outside the building. The woman was not injured by was in shock. Palestinian militants continue to fire Kassam rockets, several of which made direct hits on residential areas both in Sderot and Ashkelon today, and Israel continues to strike Gaza from the air with the death toll in the Gaza Strip rising to over 350.<br />\r\n+++++++++<br />\r\nThe Defense Minister Ehud Barak finally said that the attacks are a "war against Hamas" something Tzipi Livni publicly stated several days before the raids on Hamas began, last week before she went to Cairo.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Will They Enter Gaza?','/images/uploaded/up_VEh9em.jpg','An Israeli tank gunner stands atop his Merkava tank early 28 December 2008 and gives the "V" sign as another tank (behind) kicks up smoke while returning to a base along the southern Gaza Strip in the vicinity of Sufa. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would send ground troops into the Gaza Strip if rocket and mortar fire continued from inside the Gaza Strip to southern Israeli communities. ',700,700);)
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