Hyderabad, April 18 -- A photograph showing a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece killed in an Israeli air stike in the Gaza Strip, on Thursday, April 18, won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award.

The photo was taken on October 17, 2023, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, by Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem.

Salem's winning image depicts 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar, sobbing and holding Saly's body in the hospital morgue.

Salem's wife had given birth to their child days before he took the shot.

"It was a powerful and a sad moment and I felt the picture sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip," Amsterdam-based World Press Photo quoted Salem as saying.

"The...