Devastating Image of Aunt Grieving in Gaza Wins World Press Photo of the Year Award
A harrowing photograph showing a woman in Gaza sobbing in a morgue as she cradles the body of her 5-year-old niece won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday.
Mohammed Salem, a 39-year-old Palestinian Reuters photographer, captured the image at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave on Oct. 17, 2023. The picture shows Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the shrouded corpse of her niece, Saly.
“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,” Rickey Rogers, Reuters’ Global Editor for Pictures and Video, 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.”