Kyle S. Mackie

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Looking through some past work today. I met these kids from Iraq (first photo) and Syria (second) last summer at a center for asylum seekers on the outskirts of Zagreb, Croatia — the entry point to the EU for many migrants and refugees from the Middle East. . An organizer with the refugee services and advocacy NGO Are You Syrious told me that the Iraqi boy was so traumatized he could hardly speak when his family arrived. But he wasn’t so shy by the time I came around with my camera. The Syrian family in the second photo made it to Germany and spent a full year there before getting deported to Croatia, as per the 2016 EU-Turkey migration deal; they were told it was where they were first recognized as refugees, even though the siblings insisted they never registered there. . It’s hard to reconcile the unbridled freedom of movement, security and opportunity I’ve been privileged with over the past year-and-change since we met (and for my entire life) compared to the hand these kids were dealt. Wishing them health, happiness, education, and some of the normal luxuries of childhood now, wherever they are. . Aug. 6, 2017 . #Iraq #Syria #Croatia #WesternBalkans #EU #EuropeanUnion #migrantcrisis #refugees #migration #borders #latergram #reportersnotebook

I was so happy to contribute reporting to @stef_dgnt’s piece published in @aljazeeraenglish this week about @sardpalestine, a spoken word community in Ramallah, West Bank. Sard, which means "to narrate" in Arabic, is a rare community that offers Palestinian youth a space to express themselves creatively. . Read my dear friend and Israel/Palestine traveling partner Stefania’s story on aljazeera.com: "Ramallah open mic night: An outlet for Palestinian youth." . Thanks to the @sardpalestine community for welcoming us and sharing your stories this summer. I hope to be able to share more audio and photos from our reporting soon. . #Ramallah #WestBank #Palestinian #PalestinianTerritories #MiddleEast #everydaymiddleeast #spokenword #arts #reportersnotebook #canon6d #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

"It was like living afraid 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." That’s how this Syrian mother described life during the past seven years of civil war. "If we wanted to take breakfast, we were afraid. If we were sleeping, we didn’t sleep well because we were afraid all the time. We were hearing bombs...we never had a moment of trust, of peace, of quiet." . This woman’s son, Ahmad, was severely injured in a Syrian army airstrike about four months ago. Now he’s one of the last Syrian patients receiving medical treatment in Israel. . Read more in my latest story for @haaretzcom (link in bio). . #Syria #SyrianWar #SyrianWomen #Israel #MiddleEast #aid #medicalaid #hospital #war #canon6d #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

Books and toys sit inside the room that’s been used as a school for young Syrian patients at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, northern Israel, on July 29, 2018. About 160 severely wounded Syrian children have been treated at Ziv since 2013. Now that the Syrian regime has regained control of the country’s southern border region, Israel’s program of medical and humanitarian assistance for Syrians has ended. . These photos are part of my latest story for @haaretzcom. Link in bio. . #Syria #SyrianWar #Israel #war #hospital #aid #medicalaid #canon6d #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

"I went out from my home to the market, behind my home, then I just heard a bomb. And I looked and saw that my leg was on the floor." . Ahmad, 14, is one of the last Syrian patients in Israel. Nearly 5,000 wounded Syrians have been treated at Israeli hospitals since 2013, but with the end of the IDF’s Operation Good Neighbor announced last week, there won’t be any more. . My latest story for @haaretzcom is online now. Link in bio. . #Syria #SyrianWar #Israel #MiddleEast #IDF #war #injuries #hospital #borders #canon6d #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

My feature about the first-ever local elections in the Druze villages of the Golan Heights is out today for @haaretzcom. I’ve been working on this piece for a while now. Link in bio. . Photos: 1) Today’s paper! 2) Majdal Shams, the largest of the four Druze villages in the Golan 3) Monjd Abu Saleh, mayoral candidate in Majdal Shams 4) The border fence between Syria (left) and Israel on the outskirts of Majdal Shams 5) View of Mount Hermon and a Druze holy site . #reportersnotebook #Israel #Syria #Druze #GolanHeights #elections #borders #canon6d #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

I’ve been doing a lot of way #latergrams because there never seems to be time to reflect on the reporting I’ve been doing in Israel and the West Bank. The narratives here can be difficult to take in, but I’m grateful to everyone (Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Druze, Bedouin, etc. etc!) who have not only shared their stories but also made space for me as one more human in the middle of their difficult lives, whether for an hour of coffee or months of helping deal with my temporary immigrant problems. . This is the son of the PLO’s UNRWA file director, who I interviewed last week in Ramallah on the first day back for UNRWA schools in the West Bank and Gaza. What started as a straightforward day of reporting ended with a new friend in a small town outside Nablus, overlooking the olive groves. . Aug. 29, 2018 . #reportersnotebook #WestBank #Palestinian #PalestinianTerritories #MiddleEast #everydaymiddleeast #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

About 4,000 Israelis flew kites near the Gaza border on July 6, 2018, as part of an event organized by the family of Hadar Goldin. Goldin was a 23-year-old IDF lieutenant who was killed in Gaza during the 2014 war. His body was captured by Hamas and is still held inside the strip, but his family hasn’t given up calling for it to be returned. The choice of kites was also meant to be a peaceful act of defiance against the incendiary kites and balloons launched from inside Gaza that have burned about 7,000 acres of land in Israeli border communities this summer. . This demonstration was held on a Friday, which means that there was a very different kind of protest taking place around the same time on the other side of the border. At least 170 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF since the weekly march of return protests began in March. . #Israel #Gaza #GazaStrip #GazaBorder #borders #protest #rally #kites #sigma2470 #sigma2470art #latergram

Yakob Natsheh manages his family’s glassblowing factory and shop in Hebron’s Old City. Hebron is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, and the al-Natsheh factory is one of the oldest glassblowing studios, dating back to the 13th century (!!). . Aug. 21, 2018 . #Hebron #WestBank #glassblowing #history #PalestinianTerritories #Palestinian #latergram #sigma2470 #sigma2470art

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