Facing death and destruction: the prints of Raymond Prucher
Marcelo Guimarães Lima Jenin ImPrints by Raymond Prucher, Whimperbang Press, 2026 Foreword In Jenin ImPrints , artist Raymond Prucher memorializes the massacre perpetrated by the armed forces of the State of Israel against the Palestinians in the refugee camp of Jenin in occupied Palestine in 2002. The refugee camp was established in 1953 to house Palestinians who were violently, illegally expelled from their homes by Israeli forces in 1948 and after. In time, the refugee camp became a place not just of oppressive, restricted and humiliating living conditions for a displaced population, but also an important place of strong and persistent moral and political resistance, of popular struggles under harsh circumstances against a powerful and brutal enemy. Jenin had therefore to be silenced, suppressed as much as possible with utmost violence by a military force that would at the time, as today, declare to target “terrorists”, but would not distinguish between its de...
