In Gaza: Life in a Cage, French journalist Hervé Kempf, with photographs by Jérôme Equer, reports from the Gaza Strip in the years before Israel’s 2005 withdrawal of settlers, when settlements, army posts and checkpoints cut the territory into pieces.

Kempf describes how Palestinians in Gaza lived hemmed in on every side: the destruction of homes and orchards, the shortage of water and land, the difficulty of moving even short distances, and the economic strangulation of the territory. Through interviews with residents, farmers and fishermen, he portrays a society confined as if in a cage, while showing its resilience.