The 2025 visual uses a photo from the 2024 winning report. This photograph taken by Mahmud Hams from AFP was part of his report shot between October 2023 and January 2024 inside Gaza, in the hell of war.
Caption: Palestinian woman reacts as others rush to look for victims in the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023
Mahmud Hams graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza with a degree in journalism and information. He joined AFP in 2003, covering daily news in the Gaza Strip and occasionally in Libya and Egypt. He has won numerous international awards.
He has already been awarded the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents twice: in 2007 for a photo of young Palestinians fleeing an Israeli army bombardment; then in 2018 for his work on the protest movement known as the ‘Great March of Return’, which mobilised thousands of Palestinians along the border.