Here The Walrus profiles one image from a series of pictures made in Tyre, Lebanon awarded by the World Press. This image is relatively mute compared to the others in the awarded series as it coolly relays still-steaming ravages in a residential environment. I ask myself -- what was once here, now gone? The caption reminds us that Israeli attacks sought out hidden Hezbollah sites. We are left to wonder if the apparent precision hit and total devastation was successful in meeting the target or is it the indiscriminate sort that outside sources accused Israel of at the time. For this the image is a supple question mark amongst the others that survey active grieving of residents ricocheting about the crisis zone; some with their belongings in bags, some with dead children and others in shelters steeped in despair. Does the photographer know with certainty that this was not a site of violent Hezbollah schemers?

As the rest of the series confirms human suffering we are to believe that we can also be assured that travesty has happen at the bomb site pictured here. Still I wonder... The dust has not yet settled fully on the wreckage. Has the photographer come upon it as he too scatters around the city or was he a witness with the knowledge to say 'it was civilian' and therefore keeps form of relaying quantifiable collateral damage. In light of this image without the same level of definition my hope is that the theme of this edit is honesty. We rely on people on the ground to witness but also make our paths straighter.