Moving on – Moving back – Moving on
Tel Aviv, 2005 … window found on 3rd floor of a Bauhaus architecture house in Neve Tzedek (Abode of Justice, also name for God/Jeremiah 50:7); establ. 1887 as 1st Jewish neighborhood outside walls of ancient Jaffa port, Neve Tzedek is now a trendy area in South-West Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv shore, Mai 2005
Gaza shore, May 2005
Al Arish shore, January 2004
view from Mount Nebo, Jordan; map depicting cities and Christian sites in the Westbank
Founded in the 2nd century BC Gaza is one of the oldest (living) cities, sited at one of the oldest crossroads.
The Phoenicians called it Gaza, in their language a fortress.
The Canaanite called it Gaza, which meant very special.
view from Mount Neba, Jordan; map depicting .... and the missing link
The piece of land called Gaza Strip has 40km coastline, 11km borderline with Egypt, 62km borderline with Israel and is between 6 and 12km wide, with a total of 360sq km.
In 1999 significant natural gas supplies were discovered off Gaza’s coast.
Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre, 2006
.... observed like fish in an aquarium; examining a people who cannot move, who are stuck and depending on everything from outside: food, electricity, water, petrol, paper, medicine ....
Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre, 2006
... a laboratory: people under inhuman conditions, at full mercy of the occupier; endurance highly demanded, with constantly unfulfilled promises of change ...
Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, an independent children’s library and information centre, 2006
words and photography by Rayelle Niemann, 2005/2006/2009
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