Portrait of a wounded Palestinian boy wins Press Photo of the Year

‘How do I live like this?’ asks Gaza boy who lost arms in Israeli attack

An image of Mahmoud Ajjour, 9, who was severely wounded in an Israeli strike, won World Press Photo of the Year award.

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN A powerful portrait of a Palestinian boy who lost both arms in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City has been named World Press Photo of the Year. Photographer Samar Abu Elouf, also from Gaza, met nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour three months after an explosion severed one arm and maimed the other. Ajjour and his family were evacuated to Doha, Qatar, where Abu Elouf lives, for medical treatment.

Portrait of a wounded Palestinian boy wins Press Photo of the Year

Doha-based Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf’s image of a young boy who was severely injured while fleeing an Israeli attack in Gaza has been named the World Press Photo of the Year.

Portrait of a wounded Palestinian boy wins Press Photo of the Year - Egypt Independent

CNN  —  A striking portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City has been named Press Photo of the Year. Photographer Samar Abu Elouf, who is also from Gaza, met nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour three months after an explosion severed one of his arms and mutilated the other. Ajjour and his family were evacuated to Doha, Qatar, where Abu Elouf is based, to receive medical treatment. “One of the most diffi…

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AMSTERDAM- Mahmoud, a Gazati boy who was torn off by one arm and destroyed the other when fleeing an Israeli attack, is just an example of “so many children injured or amputated” who cannot be treated in Gaza, nor can he go out for treatment, laments EFE Samar Abu Elouf, the Palestinian photographer who captured the World Press Photo Photo of the Year.The fate of Mahmoud Ajjour and his photographer crossed when they were both evacuated from Gaza…