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Gaza grief image named World Press Photo of the Year
Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her five-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, in this photo taken Oct. 17, 2023. Photographer Mohammad Salem said he saw the woman squatting on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and tightly holding the girl's body. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
Photo: (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
Photo of woman holding niece's body taken at hospital in Khan Younis in October 2023
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip.
The picture was taken on Oct. 17, 2023, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where families were searching for relatives killed during Israeli bombing of the Palestinian enclave.
Salem's winning image portrays Inas Abu Maamar, 36, sobbing while holding Saly's sheet-clad body in the hospital morgue.
Mohammed received the news of his WPP award with humility, saying that this is not a photo to celebrate but that he appreciates its recognition and the opportunity to publish it to a wider audience,
Reuters's global editor for pictures and video, Rickey Rogers, said at a ceremony in Amsterdam.
He hopes with this award that the world will become even more conscious of the human impact of war, especially on children,
Rogers said, standing in front of the photo at the Nieuwe Kerk church in the Dutch capital.
