In October, Q. Sakamaki, the renowned international conflict photographer and former longtime East Villager, was in Gaza documenting conditions after last summer’s 50-day Israel-Gaza war. On this page, top, a Bedouin family on a donkey cart passed a destroyed building in Beit Hanoun. Below, Hala Islam Mislh, 4, held her tank-shell-melted car toy while posing in her heavily damaged house in Al Auda, in Beit Hanoun. She and eight other family members escaped harm because they had been out for a feast when the house was hit. Opposite page, top, a Palestinian man salvaged a door from the debris of his home, blasted by air strikes, in Alshjaia. Bottom, in Khoza’a, near the Israeli border, a Palestinian family has breakfast at their home, which was damaged by air strikes. Though the house is dangerous to stay in, they cannot move or rent rooms, since there is almost no space available for rent after the war.
