On 17 October 2023, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Inas Abu Ma'ama, a 36-year-old Palestinian woman, held the body of her five-year-old niece Sally, who was killed in an Israeli air strike. Five-year-old Sally was killed along with her mother and sister when an Israeli missile hit their home. Inas crouched on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and hugging the child's corpse tightly. Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem won the 2024 World Press Photo (WPP: World Press Photo) Award on 17 October for a photograph he took at the Nasser Hospital morgue in Khan Younis on 18 April 2024.
Around 99 journalists and media employees who covered the event have been killed since the Israeli army launched its military offensive on the Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem won the 2024 World Press Photo Award for his 17 October photo of a Palestinian woman holding the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, taken on 17 October 2023 at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine. Families were searching for relatives killed in Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian territory. Israeli forces had instructed Gaza residents to evacuate to the south for safety.
Salem's winning photograph shows 36-year-old Inas Abu Ma'amar weeping in the hospital morgue, holding Sally's body wrapped in a sheet. The child she was holding was a corpse wrapped in a shroud. The woman was wearing a scarf and her head was bowed. The child was one of many who lost their lives in the war between the Israeli army and Hamas. At the awards ceremony in Amsterdam, Reuters' head of photography and video said, "Mohammed humbly accepts the news of the WPP award, not as a celebratory photograph, but as recognition for the photograph and the opportunity to make it available to a wider audience."
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