#inas abu maamar

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KHAN YOUNIS 🇵🇸 - A Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece. The photograph, taken by Mohammed Salem just days after his own child was born, shows 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar holding five-year-old Saly, who was killed along with her mother and sister when an Israeli missile struck their home. (source)

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In a final embrace Inas Abu Maamar, 36, cradles the shroud-wrapped body of her five-year-old niece, Saly, who died in Israeli strikes on Khan Younis, at the Nasser Hospital morgue before her funeral in southern Gaza, October 17, 2023.

The Pulitzer Prize Board has honored the photography staffs of Reuters and the Associated Press for their outstanding work. The Reuters staff was recognized with the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, while the Associated Press was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

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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. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

[dearfriendicanfly]

Second poster of the day for Artists Against Apartheid. The text is from this sermon by Reverend Munther Isaac. The photo is of Inas Abu Maamar and her niece Saly, taken by Mohammed Salem (Reuters). Here is a link to a folder with PDF, PNG, PSD, and Procreate files of the poster, as well as an image description. Again, feel free to edit/repost/print and distribute the poster, but I ask that you include the alt text/ID for accessibility.

Keep striking and keep fighting. 🇵🇸

Alt text: a black and white poster with the large slogan, in all caps, “God is buried under the rubble in Gaza.” Overlaid with the text is a photo of a woman, Inas Abu Maamar, holding the shrouded corpse of a small child, her niece, Saly. There is a border around the poster with text from a sermon by Reverend Munther Isaac, titled “God is Under the Rubble in Gaza.” End alt text.

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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, Oct. 17.

Mohammed Salem—Reuters

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2024 World Press Photo of the Year

l Inas Abu Maamar (36) cradling the body of her niece Saly (5) who was killed, along with her mother and sister, when an Israeli missile struck their home, in Khan Younis, Gaza.

l Mohammed Salem, Palestine, REUTERS

[jadeseadragon]

2024 World Press Photo of the Year

Mohammed Salem 📷 Gaza-based Reuters photojournalist

"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."

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Palestinian Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won this year's prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award with a depiction of loss and sorrow in Palestine's Gaza a heart-wrenching photo of a Palestinian woman cradling the dead body of her young niece.

The photograph, captured on October 17, 2023, at Nasser Hospital, shows 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar sobbing while holding five-year-old Saly, who was killed along with her mother and sister when an Israeli missile struck their home.

Salem described his photograph as a "powerful and sad moment that sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip."

"Mohammed received the news of his WPP award with humility, saying that this is not a photo to celebrate," said Reuters' Global Editor for Pictures and Video, Rickey Rogers, at a ceremony in Amsterdam, "but that he appreciates its recognition and the opportunity to publish it to a wider audience."

"He hopes with this award that the world will become even more conscious of the human impact of war, especially on children."

This is not the first time 39-year-old Salem has been recognised for his work on Israeli attacks on Palestine. He received a World Press Photo award more than a decade ago for another depiction of the human toll of conflict in the besieged enclave.

Credits: TRT World

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At the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Inas Abu Maamar embraces the lifeless body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike Taken on October 17, 2023 Photographer: Mohammed Salem

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Pietà with Mohammed Salem's photo of Inas Abu Maamar embracing the body of her 5-year old niece, Saly. Saly was killed on October 17 in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis.

"In this season of Lent, it seems to many of us that Jesus is on the cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around him. It only takes people of insight to see the hundreds of thousands of crosses throughout the land, Palestinian men, women, and children being crucified. Palestine has become one huge golgotha. The Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily. Palestine has become the place of the skull."

(From the 2001 Easter message of Naim Ateek, Palestinian liberation theologian and Anglican priest.)

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World Press Photo of the Year 2024

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, Oct.17, 2023

https://www.voanews.com/a/photos-of-the-year-2023-part-2/7404543/p9.html

https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20240418/16827755/Poignant-shot-from-Gaza-wins-World-Press-Photo.htm

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Vía in Mezz'ora

Una donna palestinese in lutto che stringe a sé il corpo senza vita di una bambina, uccisa in un raid israeliano nella Striscia. È questa l’immagine che ha conquistato il World Press Photo 2024. L’ha scattata il fotoreporter della Reuters Mohammed Salem.

La donna rannicchiata si chiama Inas Abu Maamar. E il corpicino che culla e abbraccia è quello della nipotina Saly, di soli cinque anni. Saly è morta insieme a sua madre e a sua sorella. La loro casa a Khan Younis, nel sud della Striscia, è stata colpita da un missile nell’ottobre scorso. L’immagine è stata già ribattezzata “la pietà di Gaza”, per la somiglianza nella posa con l’opera di Michelangelo.

La foto vincitrice è stata scattata il 17 ottobre 2023, a meno di due settimane dall’attacco di Hamas e dall’inizio della guerra su Gaza. “È stato un momento potente e triste e ho sentito che l'immagine riassumeva in senso lato ciò che stava accadendo nella Striscia di Gaza”, ha commentato il fotografo della Reuters.

“È un'immagine davvero profondamente commovente”, ha affermato la presidente della giuria del World Press Photo, Fiona Shields. «Una volta che lo vedi, ti rimane in mente. È come una sorta di messaggio letterale e metaforico sull'orrore e l'inutilità del conflitto. E rappresenta un argomento incredibilmente potente a favore della pace», ha aggiunto.

Il mondo di #InMezzora

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World Press Photo 2024 by Mohammed Salem

The Palestinian photo journalist captured this moment in the Gaza Strip

Inas Abu Maamar clings to the body of her five year old niece Saly, killed alongside her family by an Israeli airstrike on her home

"I pray to God that this photo reaches the entire world and becomes a reason to stop the war and suffering endured by our Palestinian people," Mohammed Salem said on his twitter account following the announcement of his win.

"I dedicate this achievement to the souls of the martyrs of journalists who sacrificed their lives so that their noble message reaches the world. I especially remember my brother, the martyr Bilal Jadallah, director of Beit al-Sahafa Foundation."

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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. Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem was in Khan Younis on Oct. 17 at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were going to search for missing relatives. He saw Inas squatting on the ground in the morgue, sobbing and tightly embracing Saly’s body. “I lost my conscience when I saw the girl, I took her in my arms,” Inas said. “The doctor asked me to let go... but I told them to leave her with me.” Mohammed Salem won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image. | Photo Credit: Reuters

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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. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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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 on Oct. 17, 2023.

(Photo: Mohammed Salem / Reuters)

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Frontispiece: LRB Vol. 46 No. 6 • 21 March 2024

The Shoah after Gaza

Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

But these universalist reference points are in danger of disappearing as the Israeli military massacres and starves Palestinians, while denouncing as antisemitic or champions of Hamas all those who plead with it to desist.

By Pankaj Mishra

London Review of Books

Vol. 46 No. 6 • 21 March 2024

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