His brother and two cousins were shot and killed. Four brothers were injured. The family home was bulldozed with his mother inside. His father was jailed for twelve years. These are just some of Mohammed Omer’s family stories.
Mohammed is 22 and was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
He is a photojournalist, and he has been documenting his own life, and the lives of other Gazans, since 2002. Dick Gordon talks to Mohammed about growing up in one of the most dangerous places on earth on The Story.
For more information, visit:
www.thestory.org
www.rafahtoday.org/ (Mohammed Omer’s weblog)
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