Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip.
#Photography by Mohammed SALEM, Oct. 17, 2023
(Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza)
from #TheNewYorkTimes [gift article link below]
A witness describes losing four nieces and nephews in an attack that killed several children playing in the street.
There is absolutely no reason for people to be reduced to waiting for token "aid" to fall from the sky. Aid as a concept is itself a failure-this world could be a place of sufficiency and mutuality, if not for the forces of greed and violence which render millions-in Palestine and
beyond-deprived.
Remember Yazan al Kafarna today.