- The daddy of a girl who Hamas killed has defended an award-winning picture of her.
- The Related Press picture confirmed Shani Louk half-naked and face down at the back of a Hamas pickup truck.
- This text accommodates a picture which will trigger misery.
The daddy of a girl who was killed throughout Hamas’ October 7 assaults on Israel has defended the choice to current a prestigious journalism award to a freelancer who photographed her lifeless physique.
The Related Press freelancer Ali Mahmud received the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Workforce Image Story of the 12 months for the picture, which confirmed Shani Louk’s lifeless physique splayed at the back of a pickup truck and surrounded by Hamas militants.
Louk, a German tattoo artist, had been attending an out of doors “Pageant for Peace” occasion close to Kibbutz Urim when Hamas fighters focused the world in a terrorist assault.
AP Photograph/Ali Mahmud
The choice to award the prize for Mahmud’s picture acquired fierce backlash on social media and from some Jewish commentators.
The official X, previously Twitter, profile for the State of Israel appeared to react to the information of the award by sharing a number of photos of Louk alive and smiling, writing: “That is how we would like Shani Louk to be remembered.”
Israeli author Hen Mazzig additionally took to X to hit out on the determination, saying that the picture “dehumanizes” Louk.
“The most important photojournalism competitors on this planet determined to trample on the household’s needs in favor of giving a photograph of Shani’s mutilated physique a prestigious award,” he wrote.
“Photographs displaying violence and demise might be newsworthy or necessary after they humanize the lifeless or provoke the general public. The ‘successful’ picture does neither; it solely additional dehumanizes Shani, retraumatizes her household and legitimizes Hamas’s actions underneath the guise of journalistic neutrality,” he added.
“This is without doubt one of the most necessary pictures within the final 50 years”
However Louk’s father, Nissim Louk, instructed Israeli information outlet Ynet that he was glad the picture received the award.
“It is good that the picture received the prize. This is without doubt one of the most necessary pictures within the final 50 years. These are a few of the pictures that form human reminiscence,” he mentioned.
Nissim added that the picture of his daughter and people of Noa Argamani being taken hostage by Hamas militants on a motorbike have been photos that “symbolize this period.”
“I believe it is a good factor to make use of it to tell the longer term. If I begin crying, what is going to come of it? That is historical past. In 100 years, they are going to look and know what occurred right here,” he added. “I journey the world, and everybody is aware of who Shani is.”
Hamas’ October 7 assaults killed round 1,200 folks and noticed round 240 others have been kidnaped and brought hostage in Gaza.
Israel responded to the assaults with relentless airstrikes and a floor invasion of the territory. Greater than 32,000 Palestinians have up to now been killed, Al Jazeera reported.
