Schachnovelle

Displaced Palestinians play chess outside their displacement tent at Nusairat, Gaza Strip. Photo: Moiz Salhi/APAImages/Shutterstock.

Lost & Found

A Day to Remember

Lost & Found

An Israeli girl carries her belongings as she walks out from a public bomb shelter back home, following Israel–Hamas truce, in Ashkelon, Israel. Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters.

Ghost craters

Parts of a broken mannequin lie on the ground near a tower building which was hit by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up in violence in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters.

Who’s Who

A cat looks on as a Palestinian fisherman pulls in a net on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestine September 23, 2019. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters.

Umbrella Hat

A young woman wears a traditional headdress to celebrate the Traditional Palestinian Dress Day in Gaza City, Gaza Strip July 30, 2019. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.

Collateral damages

Gaza City: A Palestinian girl cleans the face of her brother outside their destroyed house after an Israeli missile targeted a nearby Hamas site. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters.

Ghost Stories

Brussels, Belgium: Jean Rey Square, next to the Europa building, is filled with 4,500 empty pairs of shoes to remember every person killed over the last decade in Gaza. Photo: Stephanie Lecocq/EPA.

Hitchhiking along the promenade

A minibus loaded with balloons drives along the coastal road by the beach in Gaza City, Palestinian territories. Photo: Mohammed Abed.

To Fly Again

Gaza City, Gaza Strip: A Palestinian artist decorates a cafe a day before the start of Ramadan. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.

Layla

Monique Jaques is a photojournalist based in Istanbul, who spent the past four years in the Middle East. In her announced new 120 page book – due to be published in late 2017/early 2018 – “Gaza Girls: Growing Up in the Gaza Strip”, she highlights the challenges of daily life of girls in Gaza.

• Gaza Girls: rites of passage in Palestine – in pictures, The Guardian, March 10, 2017

Mannequins outside a shop near the main street of Gaza City. Photo: Monique Jaques.

Yara and her friends prepare a dance number during a blackout. Fuel is scarce in Gaza and many families have only six to eight hours of electricity a day. Photo: Monique Jaques.

Winterreise

A toilet by the wall barrier near the Rafah crossing point into Egypt from Gaza. Photo: David Levene for The Guardian.

Ulysses and the Sirens

Gaza City: A boy leaps into the sea at sunset
Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Out of the Blue

Gaza City, Gaza: A Palestinian worker at a beachside coffee house decorates its terrace with colourful umbrellas as part of decorations for Ramadan. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.

The Last Apple on the Tree

Jabalia, Gaza Strip: Children play on a tree in the Jabalia refugee camp. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.