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Headline : Reuters photographer wins World Press Photo of the Year with poignant shot from Gaza

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PARIS (AP) โ€” Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this yearโ€™s prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award Thursday with a depiction of loss and sorrow in Gaza, a heartrending photo of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece. The photograph, taken in Khan Younis just days after Salemโ€™s 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.

Salem, who is Palestinian, described this photo filed Nov. 2 last year, as a โ€œpowerful and sad moment that sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip.โ€

The image โ€truly encapsulates this sense of impact,โ€ said global jury chair Fiona Shields, The Guardian newspaper's head of photography. โ€œIt is incredibly moving to view and at the same time an argument for peace, which is extremely powerful when peace can sometimes feel like an unlikely fantasy,โ€ she added.

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