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Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney

Images from Gaza have shocked the world – but the ‘spectacle of suffering’ is a double-edged sword

The power of the war photograph is that it won’t let you look away. And nowhere is this proving truer than in Gaza.

One recent example portrayed a skeletal boy, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, held in his mother’s arms. Palestinian photographer Ahmed al-Arini captured the boy and his mother in the iconic pose of the Madonna and child.

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