The Birdcage of Shaheed Nizar Eideh Displayed at the '100 Shaheed - 100 Lives' Exhibition, Feb 2001

Taken by photographer Isabel de la Cruz, this photograph shows the birdcage of Shaheed (martyr) Nizar Eideh from Ramallah, whose family was forcibly displaced from Ramla. Three days prior to his murder, he bought a bird as he loved birds. On September 30, 2000, after leaving school, Eideh joined the clashes between the youth and the Israeli Occupation Forces in Ramallah and was shot dead. This item was displayed at the '100 Shaheed - 100 Lives' exhibition, held at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah on February 20, 2001. The idea of the exhibition emerged weeks after the eruption of the Second Intifada (Al-Aqsa Intifada) as a tribute to all those murdered in the struggle. However, as the number of Shaheeds was exponentially increasing, the exhibition was limited to honoring the first 100 Shaheeds representing all areas of Historic Palestine.