\n Friend and representative of Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra takes a picture of the public at the award ceremony [Getty]<\/p>\n
The Palestinian photojournalist Saher Alghorra, from Zuma Press, on Saturday won first prize for photography at the prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents’ Awards.<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Bauer (Zeit Magazin) won the top prize for print journalism, Maurine Mercier (RTS-RTBF) for radio, while Julie Dungelhoeff, James Andre and Sofia Amara (France 24) won for television.<\/p>\n
The conflicts in Gaza<\/a>, Ukraine and Sudan<\/a> dominated the awards, which are now in their 32nd edition.<\/p>\n Alghorra, who is still in Gaza, was recognised for his series “Trapped in Gaza: Between Fire and Famine”. Last year, he won the young reporter award.<\/p>\n His work focused on the plight of civilians trapped in the Palestinian territory by the Israeli military offensive.<\/p>\n Germany’s Bauer won first prize for “The Forgotten”, about the only hospital still able to perform surgery in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.<\/p>\n Mercier, a Swiss-Canadian journalist who won in 2022 and 2023, won for her report “Pokrovsk: Two Flowers in the Ruins”, about the sexual lives of women in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n The France 24 team’s report, “Survivors of Hell in Assad’s Jails”, focused on the prisons liberated by rebel-turned-rulers in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friend and representative of Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra takes a picture of the public at the award ceremony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,14250,7661,13646],"class_list":{"0":"post-491989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-gaza-war","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-sudan-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}