Palestinian prisoners showcase their own misery

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Thousand of new images taken by prisoners and their families are at the centre of an exhibition in the Gaza Strip as Palestinians held behind bars by Israel seek to showcase the misery to which they are subjected. The exhibition “Real souls, not just images” has been organised by the forum for prisoners and former prisoners in Gaza.

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The pictures illustrate the misery of daily life for Palestinian prisoners; how they eat, sleep and spend their times in Israeli jails. The organisers call the prisons “tombs for living people”.

Some of the photographs show those prisoners in need of medical attention who are kept in dirty rooms with a single bed and one pillow. In others, the brutality and callousness of the Israeli guards is clear as some are shown firing tear gas at the prisoners.

As the organisers point out, all of this is taking place in front of the eyes of the world but there is very little compassion or care for the Palestinian prisoners being held, often without charge or trial, by Israel.

MEMO Photographer: Mohammed Asad