Heart-Wrenching Gaza Image Wins World Press Photo of the Year

Photo caption: Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. Photo credit: Mohammed Salem / REUTERS, all images courtesy World Press Photo Foundation. Article by Rhea Nayyar. Hyperallergic – April 18, 2024. Source: World Press Photo Contest 2024.

Gaza-based Reuters photojournalist Mohammed Salem was awarded the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for his devastating capture of a Palestinian woman caressing the wrapped body of her dead niece in a hospital last year. Taken on October 17, 2023 at Nasser Hospital morgue in Khan Younis, the photo of Inas Abu Maamar mourning the loss of five-year-old Saly marks […]

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