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Palestinian photographer Mohammed Salem won this year’s prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday with a depiction of loss and sorrow in Gaza. The photo captured a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece who was killed in an Israeli attack. The photograph, taken in Gaza’s Khan Younis just days after Salem’s own child was born, showed 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 works for the Reuters news agency, described this photo taken on 2 Novemb…

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