Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Salem writes the photo as a “powerful and sad moment that sums up the general feeling of what happened” in Gaza.
The Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Salem captured the award-winning photo on Thursday by the World press photo like the photo of the year: A woman hugs a girl who has just lost her life in the Gaza Stripa “powerful and sad” reflection of the pain and loss suffered by Palestinian civilians who have had to live with Israeli bombs since October.
The photo does not show the face of either of the two people in the image. The adult woman, whose face is hidden by her arm, wears a long blue outfit and a brown veil covering her hair, while the body and head of the girl she is embracing are wrapped in a white cloth, a sign of who is no longer there. empathize.
Appearing in the photo are Inas Abu Maamar, 36, and her niece Saly, a five-year-old girl who died along with her mother and sister when their home in Khan Younis was hit and destroyed by an Israeli missile.
Salem found Inas crouched on the ground, hugging the girl, in the morgue of Nasser Hospital, where Gaza residents go to search for missing relatives.
Salem describes the photo as a “powerful and sad moment that sums up the general feeling of what was happening” in Gaza.
Source: EITB
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