World Press Photo 2025, that’s why we must not stop looking at photos from Gaza

A few days ago, a friend told me that he deactivated updates on social media from several profiles of Palestinian journalists and groups in Gaza because “those images hurt me too much. I can’t look at them anymore ». It is a phrase that I have often heard from 7 October 2023 and in particular since in the following hours immediately we started to see images of massacres: children with the face covered with blood, others without life. We have seen their faces stopped forever in those instantaneous death. From 7 October 2023, Oltrand sixteen thousand children from Palestinians They were killed in Gaza, and more than six thousand were injured, according to the United Nations. Many of them died under the rubble, without anyone being able to help them. About Twenty -five thousand children have been hospitalized due to malnutrition. In addition, according to the United Nations Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, a third of the Palestinian victims of which you have trace are children. These numbers are not just statistics: they are broken lives, broken dreams, destroyed families. That’s why we have to continue looking at these photos.

The smell of blood, death and hunger is everywhere. There is nothing in Gaza “Mohammed from Gaza tells us. “There is no safe place. We are all disappointed and frustrated. The world has left us alone, victims of genocide and expulsion. There is nothing for our children who were killed by bombing, direct bullets and fires, and whose bodies have been mutilated. Our children are deprived of everything: accommodation, care, food, drinks, safety, stability and education. They are waiting for hours in search of water or food and many of them find nothing ».

Today 17 April the winner photo of World Press Photo 2025. It was taken by the Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf, based in Doha, for a shot made for the New York Times. RItrae Mahmoud Ajjour, a seriously injured child in March 2024 while fleeing from an Israeli attack to Gaza City. Mahmoud has lost both arms. His body even speaks of his face before: he is a silent cry, the influenced sign of the violence that ever falls on the most vulnerable. Especially in the Gaza strip, a war that, as the Palestinian poet Hend Joudah wrote, “He has no time for children’s tears. She has her drums to roll “. In a time that shakes any news in a few seconds, this image forces us to stop us. To look, really.

Source: Vanity Fair

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