DEIR AL-BALAH, PALESTINE - SEPTEMBER 22: Palestinian teenager Maha Al-Sarsak, 17, documents destruction and the suffering of Palestinians using her mobile phone camera on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 in Deir al-Balah. Before the war, Al-Sarsak photographed weddings and kept old pictures of happy occasions, but Israel's war on the Gaza Strip changed her life. She lives with her family of 11 in a displacement tent at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, and dreams of becoming a photojournalist, hoping to own a camera to document events an (Photo by Doaa mohammad Albaz/LensOne)
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- mobile phone
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- refugee camp
- hospital
- maha al-sarsak
- gaza strip
- documentation
- weddings
- al-aqsa martyrs hospital
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This frame's journey
- Taken in the fieldOct 21, 2026, 1:03 PM
- Filed to the deskOct 21, 2026, 3:02 PM
- Published in the archiveOct 21, 2026, 10:49 PM
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