My work, as a woman photographer, was considered a serious insult to local traditions,

私は19才でこの仕事を始めました

and created a lasting stigma for me and my family

パレスチナのガザで

The male-dominated field made my presence unwelcome by all possible means

最初の女性フォトジャーナリストに なったのです

They made clear that a woman must not do a man's job

女性報道写真家という仕事は

Photo agencies in Gaza refused to train me because of my gender

この地方の慣習に対する

The "No" sign was pretty clear

重大な侮辱とみなされ

Three of my colleagues went as far as to drive me to an open air strike area where the explosion sounds were the only thing I could hear

私と家族に対して

Dust was flying in the air, and the ground was shaking like a swing beneath me

消えることのない汚名が 着せられたのです

I only realized we weren't there to document the event when the three of them got back into the armored Jeep and drove away

男性優位のこの分野では私の存在を

waving and laughing, leaving me behind in the open air strike zone

あらゆる手段で封じようとしました

For a moment, I felt terrified, humiliated, and sorry for myself

女は男の仕事をしてはならないと

My colleagues' action was not the only death threat I have received

きつく言われました

but it was the most dangerous one

ガザの報道写真業界からは 訓練を拒まれました

The perception of women's life in Gaza is passive

女だからという理由です

Until a recent time, a lot of women were not allowed to work or pursue education

きっぱりと「ノー」と言われたのです

At times of such doubled war including both social restrictions on women and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,

同僚の３人が

women's dark and bright stories were fading away

私を空爆の現場に連れて行きました

To men, women's stories were seen as inconsequential

そこで聞こえて来るのは

I started paying closer attention to women's lives in Gaza

炸裂する爆音だけでした

Because of my gender, I had access to worlds where my colleagues were forbidden

粉塵が舞い上がり

Beyond the obvious pain and struggle, there was a healthy dose of laughter and accomplishments

足元がふらつく程 大地がぐらぐらと揺れていました

In front of a police compound in Gaza City during the first war in Gaza

ここに仕事のために来たのではないと 気づいたのは

an Israeli air raid managed to destroy the compound and break my nose

同僚の３人が装甲ジープに戻り

For a moment, all I saw was white, bright white, like these lights

私を空爆のただ中に残して

I thought to myself I either got blind or I was in heaven

あざ笑いながら手を振って 走り去った時です

By the time I managed to open my eyes, I had documented this moment

一瞬の間　恐怖と

Mohammed Khader, a Palestinian worker who spent two decades in Israel

惨めさと後悔に襲われました

as his retirement plan, he decided to build a four-floor house, only by the first field operation at his neighborhood,

同僚たちの行為と似たような

the house was flattened to the ground

命に関わる脅迫はそれまでもありましたが

Nothing was left but the pigeons he raised and a jacuzzi, a bathtub that he got from Tel Aviv

この時の恐怖とは 比較になりませんでした

Mohammed got the bathtub on the top of the rubble and started giving his kids an every morning bubble bath.

ガザにおける女性の立場は

My work is not meant to hide the scars of war, but to show the full frame of unseen stories of Gaza's.

弱いものです

As a Palestinian female photographer,

最近まで多くの女性は 就業や教育を

the journey of struggle, survival and everyday life has inspired me to overcome the community taboo

許されませんでした

and see a different side of war and its aftermath.

女性に課された社会的制約と

I became a witness with a choice: to run away or stand still.

パレスチナ問題という

Thank you.

二重の戦いのもとでは