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Gaza life through the eyes of a photographer killed in an Israeli air strike

The wrinkled hands of an elderly Palestinian woman sifting through green olives; a young man somersaulting on a beach in Gaza; the blurry outline of a galloping peacock; blazing sunsets and rainbows descending on the Nuseirat refugee camp. 

These are the everyday images of Gaza that Palestinian photographer Majd Arandas yearned for the world to see. 

But on Wednesday, photographers from across the Middle East were in mourning after it emerged the 29-year-old was killed in an Israeli air strike. 

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Majd Arandas's death has been mourned across the Middle East by colleagues he was never able to meet in person
Majd Arandas's death has been mourned across the Middle East by colleagues he was never able to meet in person