“I haven’t stopped for a second since the morning of October 7. I’ve been running between the affected settlements, inside Gaza, in hospitals, at funerals, with the families of the kidnapped – everywhere. Armed with a camera, I obsessively document what is happening. No one sent me on this mission.
“I do this out of a sense of duty and understanding, realizing that these are some of the hardest moments the country has faced since its establishment. This is historical documentation – a visual document that will remain for future generations, just like we look at photos from the Yom Kippur War and Independence Day. Perhaps even like the Holocaust.
“I have seen many dead in my life. In Bucha, Ukraine, I photographed mass graves, but it’s not comparable to what happened here – neither in numbers nor in brutality. I arrived in Haiti after the earthquake there. The scenes were horrific. A natural disaster, as terrible as it may be, is not a man-made act. And here, it’s hard to call those who committed these cruel acts human.”
Ziv Koren
Kfar Aza, October 11
An officer from the counter-terror unit consoles his friend, broken by the sight of holiday challahs left on the table in one of the attacked kibbutz houses
Nir Oz, October 15
A bloody handprint on the exit wall of a bomb shelter in one of the kibbutz homes
Gan Yavne, October 17
The funeral of the Kutz family. Father Aviv, mother Livnat, and their children Rotem, Yonatan, and Yiftach are buried side by side. The family was murdered in their home in Kfar Aza on October 7
Kibbutz Be’eri, October 11
A ZAKA volunteer, who evacuated the bodies of Israelis murdered in the kibbutz, cries on the shoulder of a soldier
Tel Aviv, October 19
A demonstration in Kiryat Tel Aviv for the release of Israelis kidnapped to the Gaza Strip
Sakhnin, October 29
MAGAV fighters, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, arrest an Israeli Arab identified with ISIS and suspected of terrorist activities
Tel Aviv Museum Square, November 10
A flower display and banners of the kidnapped children in Gaza at Tel Aviv Museum Square. The square was renamed by Tel Aviv municipality after October 7 the Square for the Hostages and Missing
Gaza Strip, November 6
Combat teams from Brigade 14, including tanks, infantry, and combat engineering, operate in the northern Strip
The City of Gaza, November 7
Givati fighters inside a mortar factory located in a school in Gaza
