The destruction of Kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October 2023

I had the special chance to visit Kibbutz Be’eri, typically off limits to visitors. At Be’eri, completely charred homes, collapsed walls, ceilings riddled with bullet holes, and personal belongings on the ground — with no person to return to — mark the aftermath of the Hamas-led assault on the Kibbutz, where 101 civilians and 31 security personnel were murdered and 32 were taken hostage on 7 October.

My images capture safe rooms hit by RPG fire, bullet-riddled walls, and homes burned to their frames — evidence of a deliberate, indiscriminate, close-range attack on unarmed residents.

Six residents and workers from Be’eri remain in captivity in Gaza.







Tkuma


The car graveyard at Tkuma houses hundreds of vehicles that belonged to the individuals murdered by Hamas terrorists on 7 October, 2023 at the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel. They are stacked in a makeshift memorial, awaiting disposal.









Gaza


The scale of destruction in Gaza’s Beit Hanoun can be seen across the border fence in Sderot, Israel.







The West Bank



Ramallah
Jordan Valley
Jordan Valley
Ancient Shiloh, a biblical city and archaeological site in the West Bank
Ancient Shiloh, a biblical city and archaeological site in the West Bank
A defender of Jewish communities in the West Bank




The Golan Heights


In Israel’s north lives a diverse community of Jews and Arabs, including large cities of Israeli Druze.


A Druze man sells fruits, jams, and labneh in the Golan Heights, at the Israeli-Syrian border







On 27 July 2024, a Hezbollah rocket struck a football field in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in Northern Israel, killing 12 children and injuring 20 more. Most were between the ages of 10 and 16.

Nearly a year later, I was able to visit Majdal Shams and heard from the father of Naji Taher al-Halabi, an 11-year-old boy who was killed in the attack. Abu Naji’s eyes carried the weight of the world; when he spoke, his words measured against a grief that is too vast for language.

Naji loved football — his family says the field was where he felt most alive. Today, his friends, cousins, and community members play on the same field where he was killed, where a memorial braces the field’s mangled fence. Behind it, Naji’s scooter stands alongside others, waiting for him to ride it home. When sirens sound, giving just 8 seconds warning before impact, the children still playing here must sprint through a gaping hole in the fence, over freshly-laid memorial stones, and past the scooters and bikes to reach the bomb shelter. The rocket took Naji’s life just one meter short of shelter.

The ledger of conflict holds no meaning in tactical gains or political outcomes but in the devastating mathematics of human loss: twelve children who will never outgrow their soccer cleats, twenty more who play through nightmares and pain, every adult in this village who now sees their own child’s face reflected in Naji’s.

Rockets and UAVs never stopped pummeling the north of Israel, where a diverse population of Arabs, Druze, and Jews find themselves most vulnerable to attacks by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, and most recently, the Islamic Regime in Iran itself.

But to the children in Majdal Shams, the game goes on.






The bomb shelter at the field, installed just days prior to the attack
The bomb’s impact site
Destruction in southern Lebanon, as viewed from a destroyed building in Misgav Am, Israel. In fact, the destruction of these two cities mirror each other.








Tel Aviv & Jerusalem





Migdal Tzedek
Mt. Zion