Schachnovelle

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

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Butterfly Wings

A Palestinian boy displaced by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, spends his time playing with a pigeon at the large conference hall of the Islamic University, which has been turned into a temporary shelter. Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images.

Lost & Found

A Day to Remember

Alternative Armistice Day

Message in a Bottle

Peaceful marches to demand Israel stop its bombardment of Gaza took place across the globe on Saturday with at least 100,000 people taking to the streets of a rainy London, while rallies were also held in cities including Istanbul, Rome and Sydney.

Flying Higher

At least 300 pacifists were arrested on Wednesday at a Jewish-led rally outside the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., United States, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning Israel for its genocidal crimes. Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters.

Hey Joe

U.S. Jewish groups rallied outside the White House on Monday to urge Biden to push for Gaza ceasefire. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

A Taste of The Invisible

Nael al-Barghouthi’s suit is still hanging in his bedroom in the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah in the West Bank. Al-Barghouthi’s wife, Iman Nafi, keeps all her husband’s clothing and belongings in the house. Al-Barghouthi was arrested after an anti-Israel operation in 1978. He was released in 2011, married Iman Nafi, but re-arrested in 2014 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He has spent more than 40 years in prison — the longest-serving Palestinian inmate in Israeli jails. Photo © Antonio Faccilongo.

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.

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.

The Invisible Line

Abu Dis, Palestine: Banksy’s artwork is seen on the West Bank barrier in Abu Dis in 2005. On this trip to the Palestinian territories he created nine images on the wall bordering Israel and the West Bank. Photo: Marco Di Lauro/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.

The Ultimate Shoedown

Hebron, West Bank: A Palestinian demonstrator throws a shoe at a poster of Donald Trump in a protest against the U.S. president’s support for Israel. Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images.

Flowers on The Wall

“The Flower Thrower”, possibly the most iconic of all Banksy graffiti, is on a wall on the side of a garage on the main road to Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, Palestine. Photo: davehoggan.com.

Ulysses and the Sirens

Gaza City: A boy leaps into the sea at sunset
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.