A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece | Mohammed Salem, Reuters
Inas Abu Maamar, 36, cradling the body of her niece Saly, five, who was killed, along with four other family members, when an Israeli missile struck their home. Khan Younis, Gaza, 17 October 2023The photographer describes this photo as a ‘powerful and sad moment that sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip’. By the end of 2023, Palestinian women and children accounted for more than two-thirds of the death toll in Gaza, according to the UN.
