Gaza, the forgotten hell. So that no one can say they didn't see it

What is it like to live in hell? For photojournalist Haitham Imad, it is a permanent state of urgency. He has been injured in a bombing and has seen many friends and family members killed, but he always tries to do what he calls his “duty”: to be one of the first to arrive at the scene of an explosion, to persist in pointing his lens to capture the agony of a people, but also the way each one tries to survive, amidst the chaos and indifference of the rest of the world. “Taking photos and covering these events can change our reality”, he told the Washington Post a few months ago. “The people of Gaza see hope in the lens of my camera”, he stressed.

In a territory where Israeli forces prevent foreign journalists from entering, reports of what is happening in Gaza are only possible through the words and images of journalists like Haitham Imad – whose work is then distributed by major international agencies, such as Epa (European Pressphoto Agency), represented in Portugal by Lusa. Despite being only 30 years old, Imad has won several photojournalism awards for his coverage of the situation in Gaza. In these pages, we have collected just a few of his best photos taken in the last two months alone – an eloquent selection of the immense tragedy that is unfolding there, with the rest of the world showing no sign of indifference.