Gaza: Photo of the year – Aunt holding her dead niece in her arms

Peloponnese Newsroom

The photo of a woman holding the shrouded body of her dead niece in her arms in a corner of a hospital has remained etched in the memory of those who closely followed the developments.

In fact, the photo was so powerful that many called it “the Pieta of Gaza”, comparing it to Michelangelo’s unsurpassed sculpture. This shocking photo of the Palestinian woman whose niece was killed in an Israeli raid on Gauze was awarded the first prize of World Press Photo.

The photo, by Reuters photojournalist Mohamed Salem, shows Inas Maamar cradling the lifeless body of her five-year-old niece, Sally, who was killed along with her mother and sister by an Israeli rocket that hit their home in Khan Younes in October .

Mohammed Salem was at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younes on October 17 when he saw 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar in the morgue holding the dead girl’s body wrapped in a shroud tightly in her arms.

According to newsit, the photo was taken 10 days after the start of the war in Gaza.

“It was a powerful and sad moment and I felt that the image summed up in a broad sense what was happening in the Gaza Strip,” said Mohamed Salem, according to the World Press Photo release.

“It’s a really deeply moving image… When you see it, it somehow sticks in your mind,” said Prize jury chair Fiona Shields.

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