The Photo of the Year shows Inas Abu Maamar, 36, cradling the body of her niece Saly, five, killed, along with her mother and sister, when an Israeli missile struck their home, in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Mohammed Salem had been photographing residents searching for missing relatives at the Nasser Hospital morgue, for the Reuters agency, just days after his own wife gave birth.
The image was composed with care and respect, offering both a metaphorical and literal glimpse into unimaginable loss, the jury said.
Salem called it a “powerful and sad moment that sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip”.
