The Associated Press won a prestigious journalism award for images of Hamas terrorists holding the bodies of slain women in the streets of Gaza. The development sparked widespread backlash on social media, with some slamming the honor and the use of the woman’s image as a “gross desecration of Jewish life”.
The woman, 22-year-old Shani Louk, was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, during the terrorist group’s first attack on Israel.
In the photo, Locke is seen lying half-naked and seemingly unconscious in the back of a pickup truck filled with armed men.
According to media reports, on October 7, at the Supernova Music Festival in Locke, terrorists shot down attendees with guns and grenades, killing about 360 people and kidnapping dozens of others, mostly civilians, many of whom carried out Horrible acts of brutality and sexual assault.
She was officially pronounced dead on October 30 after a piece of her skull was identified. Her body remains in custody in Gaza.
The annual Team Photo Story award, sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism, bills itself as the world’s oldest photojournalism competition, the New York Post reports.
In response to the image, Aviva Klompas, the former director of speechwriting at the Israeli mission to the United Nations, sought punishment for the photographer who clicked the image.
“The Associated Press photographer who accompanied jihadi barbarians as they invaded Israel on October 7 has won a prestigious photography award. He is credited with this image of the murder-rape terrorist and the brutally twisted body of Shani Louk Celebrated for photos. In my opinion he should be in jail, not getting a prize,” she wrote on X.
Other social media users said they were “shocked” and “disgusted” by the photo.
Israel-Hamas War
Most recently, the United Nations’ top court on Thursday ordered Israel to take steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-torn enclave.
Thursday’s order comes after South Africa sought more temporary measures, including a ceasefire, citing the famine in Gaza.
Israel had urged the court not to issue a new order but said there would be no restrictions on aid entering Gaza and vowed to “promote new initiatives” to bring in more aid.
So far, the war has left 1,200 people dead on the Israeli side and another 250 people taken hostage. According to local health authorities, more than 32,000 Palestinians have died as a result of the war.
The health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but said about two-thirds of the dead were women, children and teenagers.
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