The Palestinian photojournalist Ahmed Jadallah has made over ten thousand photographs of life in the Gaza Strip for Reuters. Almost daily he shoots reportages of Palestinian funerals and Israeli violence. He himself was wounded four times and hospitalised in critical condition during the Israeli shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in 2003 in which thirteen Palestinians were killed and several hundreds more wounded. Jadallah nearly lost his legs from a tank shell, and despite a number of operations his health is still not completely restored. The Israeli authorities also have barred him from going to Reuters's main office in Jerusalem.

Ahmed Jadallah (b. Palestine, 1970) was a cameraman for CBS and since 1992 has worked as a photographer for Reuters. He sees it as his mission to have the world see the despair of the Palestinian people. In 2003 he won the first prize in the daily news category of World Press Photo.

Courtesy Reuters (Israel)