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NBC News
19-04-2025
- General
- NBC News
Boy who lost both arms in Israeli strike is being fit for prosthetics in Doha
Mahmoud Ajjour became the face of Palestinian children's suffering in the Israel-Hamas war when a photo of him won the World Press award. Videos sent to NBC News show Ajjour adjusting to life after he lost both of his arms in an Israeli airstrike in December 2023.
Al Jazeera
19-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
LIVE: Israel kills 64 in Gaza as homes, tent camps, barbershop bombed
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 64 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on UN's World Food Programme issues an urgent warning that 'Gaza needs food now' as hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza says people in the war-torn territory are 'psychologically broken' amid unrelenting Israeli bombing and having no food for their children due to the Israeli blockade on aid Health Ministry says at least 51,065 Palestinians have been confirmed dead and 116,505 wounded in Israel's war on Gaza since it began 18 months Gaza Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive. Update: Date: 3m ago (00:07 GMT) Title: WATCH: Image of Gaza air strike survivor wins 2025 World Press Photo of the Year Content: A poignant image of a nine-year-old amputee from Gaza is the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year. Mahmoud Ajjour lost both of his arms in an Israeli air strike. His portrait was taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times. Ajjour spoke with Al Jazeera about rebuilding his life and his dream of returning home. Watch below: This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Update: Date: 6m ago (00:04 GMT) Title: A recap of recent developments Content: Update: Date: 9m ago (00:00 GMT) Title: Welcome to our live coverage Content: Hello, and thank you for joining our live coverage of Israel's war on Gaza as well as Israeli attacks on the occupied West Bank and the wider region. Follow this page for around-the-clock updates on the latest developments. You can find all our updates from Friday, April 18, here.
Al Jazeera
18-04-2025
- General
- Al Jazeera
Image of Gaza airstrike survivor wins 2025 World Press Photo of the Year
NewsFeed Image of Gaza airstrike survivor wins 2025 World Press Photo of the Year A poignant image of a nine-year-old amputee from Gaza is the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year. Mahmoud Ajjour lost both arms in an Israeli airstrike. His portrait was taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times. Ajjour spoke with Al Jazeera about rebuilding his life and his dream of returning home.
Al Jazeera
18-04-2025
- Health
- Al Jazeera
‘How do I live like this?' asks Gaza boy who lost arms in Israeli attack
A Palestinian child who was severely wounded in an Israeli drone attack on Gaza last year, and who was pictured in an image that won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year award, says he has been struggling to adapt to life since losing both his arms in the explosion. Speaking to Al Jazeera from Doha, Qatar, where he has been receiving treatment, nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour recalled the moment the bomb exploded, targeting his home in March 2024. At first, Ajjour, who hails from Gaza City's old town, said he did not realise he was wounded. 'I thought I had simply fallen. But I found myself on the ground, exhausted, and wondering what had happened,' he told Al Jazeera. In reality, one arm 'flew off, and one flew and fell right beside me', he added. Still unaware that he had sustained serious wounds – wounds that mutilated his entire body – Ajjour said he looked around and saw his arms. Although they looked familiar, his brain still could not comprehend that they had been blown off. 'My mother then told me that I lost my arms,' Ajjour recalled. 'I started crying. I was very sad, and my mental state was very bad.' His mental health deteriorated further when he, like many others in Gaza, had to undergo surgery without anaesthetics due to a severe lack of medical supplies. Throughout the war, Israeli forces have largely kept vital border crossings shut, preventing the entry of much-needed medical supplies, as well as food and other aid, including fuel. 'They performed surgery on me while I was awake,' Ajjour said, the shock still evident in his voice. 'I couldn't bear the pain, I was screaming very loud. My voice filled the hallways.' Ajjour is one of thousands of children in Gaza who are suffering life-changing injuries due to relentless, indiscriminate Israeli bombardment. According to the United Nations Children's Fund, more than 10 children each day have lost one or both of their legs since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its ongoing genocide in Gaza. That is more than 1,000 children. 'Gaza now has the highest number of children amputees per capita anywhere in the world – many losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without even anaesthesia,' UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in December. Ajjour is now learning to write, play games on his phone, and dress himself using his feet – but still needs special assistance for most daily activities. He now longs for the days when his arms were still intact. Before the attack, Ajjour said he used to go to the market and buy his mother vegetables and food she needed. 'Now, everything is difficult, including feeding myself, helping myself to the bathroom … but I try my best,' he said. 'I manage my life like this. I make it work.' Ajjour dreams of a future where he can return to Gaza and help rebuild the devastated enclave. He hopes the world can 'end the war on Gaza'. 'We want to live on our land. We don't want the Israelis to take it,' he said. 'People are dying there [in Gaza]. And my home was bombed. How could I live like this?' Israel's ongoing assault on the besieged and bombarded territory has so far killed more than 51,000 Palestinians and wounded at least 116,505 others, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health. It has also forcibly displaced most of its 2.3 million strong population, ravaged most of the land, damaged basic infrastructure and dismantled its already-struggling healthcare system.
CNN
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
World Press Photo 2025: Award Winners Unveiled
"Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine." Mahmoud Ajjour, who was injured during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024, finds refuge and medical help in Doha, Qatar, on June 28, 2024. Winner, World Press Photo of the Year. Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/World Press Photo "Night Crossing." Chinese migrants warm themselves during a cold rain after crossing the US–Mexico border in Campo, California, on March 7, 2024. Finalist, World Press Photo of the Year./World Press Photo "Droughts in the Amazon." A young man brings food to his mother who lives in the village of Manacapuru. The village was once accessible by boat, but because of the drought, he must walk two Kilometers along the dry riverbed of the Solimoes River to reach her, in Amazonas, Brazil, on October 5, 2024. Finalist, World Press Photo of the Year. Musuk Nolte/Panos Pictures/Bertha Foundation/World Press Photo "Life Won't Stop." The groom poses for a portrait at his wedding in Omdurman, Sudan, on January 12, 2024. In Sudan, announcing a wedding with celebratory gunfire is a tradition. Regional winner, Africa. Mosab Abushama/World Press Photo "Gabriel Medina during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games." Brazil's Gabriel Medina bursts out triumphantly from a large wave in the fifth heat of round three of men's surfing, during the 2024 Olympic Games in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia, on July 29, 2024. Regional winner, Asia Pacific and Oceania. Jerome Brouillet/AFP/World Press Photo "Kenya's Youth Uprising." Protesters chant slogans and push a makeshift barricade as they clash with Kenyan police officers during an anti-government demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 2, 2024. Regional winner, Africa. Luis Tato/AFP/World Press Photo "Women's Bodies as Battlefields." Yohanna, 22, resting next to her mother after she received treatment for complications arising from kidney removal. Shot by Eritrean police at the border, she woke up at a hospital where she learned that one of her kidneys had been removed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 31, 2017. Regional winner, Africa. Cinzia Canneri/Association Camille Lepage/World Press Photo "Four Storms, Ten Days." A man wades through a street flooded by heavy rains from Typhoon Toraij in Ilagan City, Isabela, northern Philippines, on November 12, 2024. Four consecutive cyclones, three of which developed into typhoons, hit the Philippines in a matter of days in late October and early November 2024. Regional winner, Asia Pacific and Oceania. Noel Celis/AP/World Press Photo "Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump." Members of the United States Secret Service help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump off stage moments after a bullet from an attempted assassin hit his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, on July 13, 2024. Regional winner, North and Central America. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/World Press Photo "Te Urewera, The Living Ancestor of Tūhoe People." Children from the Teepa family drive the younger siblings home, after a swim in the river. Tūhoe children are taught independence and to care for other family members in Ruatoki, New Zealand, on January 27, 2022. Regional winner, Asia Pacific and Oceania. Tatsiana Chypsanava/Pulitzer Center/New Zealand Geographic/World Press Photo "Beyond the Trenches." Anhelina, 6, is traumatized and suffers panic attacks after having to flee her village near Kupiansk (a frontline city in Russia's invasion of Ukraine). She now lives with her grandmother in Borshchivka, 95 kilometers from Kupiansk. Anhelina is pictured in her new home in Borshchivka, Ukraine, on March 7, 2024. Regional winner, Europe. Florian Bachmeier/World Press Photo "Life and Death in a Country Without Constitutional Rights." A group of arrested people awaits entrance to Ilopango jail in Ilopango, San Salvador, El Salvador, on September 27, 2022. El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and prisoners face harsh conditions. Regional winner, South America. Carlos Barrera/El Faro/NPR/World Press Photo "Aircraft on Flooded Tarmac." A stranded Boeing 727-200 surrounded by floodwaters at Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on May 20, 2024. Between April and June 2024, record-breaking rainfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, led to the worst flood in the area's history. Regional winner, South America. Anselmo Cunha/AFP/World Press Photo "Jaidë." María Camila, Luisa, and Noraisi Birry, members of the indigenous Emberá Dobida community, stand by the grave of their sister Yadira, while wearing the paruma shawls Yadira left behind in Chocó, Colombia, on June 20, 2024. Yadira Birry, 16, took her own life with a paruma on April 7, 2023. Regional winner, South America. Santiago Mesa/World Press Photo "Paths of Desperate Hope." Luis Miguel Arias takes a break with his daughter Melissa as they climb a hill in the Darién Gap, a 100-kilometer-long stretch of dense jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, on September 23, 2022. They are from Venezuela and joined the over 250,000 migrants who traversed the gap in 2022. Regional winner, South America. Federico Ríos/World Press Photo
