Photo of Palestinian Child Wins World Press Photo Award

The picture of an amputee Palestinian boy recently won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year Award. 

The picture depicts nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, whose arms were severed and mutilated during an Israeli attack in Gaza City. 

Samar Abu Elouf took the photograph for the New York Times newspaper. She is from Gaza and was evacuated in December 2023; she took photographs of badly wounded Palestinians in Doha, Qatar. 

Ajjour was evacuated to Doha in March last year after an Israeli explosion. 

The statement by the World Press Photo Foundation read, "Mahmoud is learning to use his feet to play games on his phone, write, and open doors."

The statement also read, "Mahmoud’s dream is simple: he wants to get prosthetics and live his life as any other child."

The global jury said about the photograph, "This photograph of a young Gazan boy, Mahmoud, speaks to the long-term costs of war, the silences that perpetuate violence, and the role of journalism in exposing these realities."

Here is the photograph that won the World Press Photo of the Year Award. 

Image source: @worldpressphoto.

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