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The Big Picture – “Back in June, 2008, Egypt helped broker a 6-month cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the ruling body in the Gaza Strip. Though the cease-fire was broken several times by both sides, it largely held. Toward the end of the cease-fire in December, Israel, while closing Gaza’s borders since November, indicated that it might extend the agreement, if Hamas ceased all Qassam rocket attacks. Qassam rockets are the crude but deadly homemade missiles often launched towards Israeli territory (over 3,000 times in 2008 alone). Hamas leaders, angered by the blockade and seemingly little political headway made over the past 6 months, recently stepped up rocket attacks on Israel once again. Israel has now responded with five days (so far) of air attacks and Naval bombardment on Gaza, resulting in over 350 dead, nearly 1,500 wounded and countless buildings and smugglers’ tunnnels destroyed. Hamas has threatened to increase the rocket attacks send suicide bombers into Israel in retaliation, and Israel is massing troops and tanks around Gaza for a possible ground assault.”…
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Since it’s launch this past spring, The Big Picture has earned the respect of millions of people world wide for their unique approach of delivering global stories and events through the lens of the photographer… but not just any one photographer. The Big Picture has published stories by some of the worlds most prominent as well as up and coming photo journalists to create a stunning archive of some of the most important events from around the world, and as 2008 comes to an end they have begun rounding up their best photographs of the past year.
Here are my favorite photos from part 3 of 3…
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Since it’s launch this past spring, The Big Picture has earned the respect of millions of people world wide for their unique approach of delivering global stories and events through the lens of the photographer… but not just any one photographer. The Big Picture has published stories by some of the worlds most prominent as well as up and coming photo journalists to create a stunning archive of some of the most important events from around the world, and as 2008 comes to an end they have begun rounding up their best photographs of the past year.
Here are my favorite photos from part 2 of 3…
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Since it’s launch this past spring, The Big Picture has earned the respect of millions of people world wide for their unique approach of delivering global stories and events through the lens of the photographer… but not just any one photographer. The Big Picture has published stories by some of the worlds most prominent as well as up and coming photo journalists to create a stunning archive of some of the most important events from around the world, and as 2008 comes to an end they have begun rounding up their best photographs of the past year. Check out part 1 of 3…
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If you’ve not already plugged into The Big Picture on your RSS feed, then I’d suggest you do so already. Undoubtedly the best photoblog on the web brings to you another set of amazing pictures of our planet for above. Check it out now!
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