Image of Palestinian mourner wins World Press Photo award

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In the Netherlands, the 2024 world press photo of the year award was given on Thursday to a picture of a grieving Palestinian woman hugging the body of her little niece, killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 In the Netherlands, the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award was given on Thursday to

00:06 a picture of a grieving Palestinian woman hugging the body of her little niece killed

00:12 in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip.

00:15 The 2024 award-winning photo was taken by Mohamed Salem of the Reuters news agency.

00:21 The photo shows Inas Abu Maamar cradling the body of five-year-old Sally, who died along

00:28 with her mother and sister after a missile hit their home in Kanjounis in southern Gaza

00:33 just 10 days after the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide.

00:37 The winning photos in 2024 were selected from 61,062 works and photographers from 130 countries.

00:47 The photos will be exhibited in the Nieuw Pekerk, a 15th-century church in the centre

00:53 of Amsterdam, until July 14.

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