A sickening AP image of Hamas terrorists parading a slain Israeli woman’s nearly naked and beheaded body through the streets of Gaza has received a prestigious journalism award, sparking outrage from those who slammed the win as “an outrageous desecration of Jewish life.”
NY PostThe grim photo featuring Shani Louk’s body was among a collection of 20 images that helped the Associated Press secure first place in one of the Pictures of the Year International award categoriesearlier this month.
The awards, which are run by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, are self-described as the world’s oldest photojournalism competition.
News of the AP’s win in the “Team Picture Story of the Year” category prompted widespread backlash on social media, with some slamming the accolade and the use of Louk’s image as an “outrageous desecration of Jewish life.” He is being celebrated for taking this photo of murder-rapist-terrorists with the brutalized and contorted body of Shani Louk,” one X user noted.
Louk, a 23-year-old German Israeli tattoo artist, was among the scores of innocent music festival-goers taken hostage when Hamas terrorists carried out their deadly Oct. 7 onslaught. She quickly became one of the faces of the war after the shocking images of her lifeless body in the back of a pickup truck started going viral.
Israeli authorities later confirmed the young woman had been beheaded by her captors.
In announcing the AP’s win, the award organizers posted the unblurred image of Louk’s lifeless body on its Instagram page. Meanwhile, many took aim at Ali Mahmud, the freelance photojournalist who snapped the image, arguing he shouldn’t be celebrated over such a tragedy.
Several Israeli American and American Nova survivors sued the AP last month for using freelance photojournalists believed to be “longstanding Hamas affiliates and full participants in the terrorist attack.”
Absolutely disgusting and revolting that this photo should be awarded a prize. Shows how woke the AP and university are.
A slow painful torture of these muslim scum must be given.
AP=Always Propaganda
I know every IDF with boots on the ground keeps a copy of this photo preying he will be the one to run these cowardly cut throat killers down … No sanctuary No quarter for these marked rapist killers as ISRAEL will not stop until this young Jewish Woman is avenged … This I know as they do what I would do only better .
Terrible! Gratitude for writing it up BNI
Thanks for the tip.
How long before Netanyahu orders food, medicine and other aid to flow to the barbarian scum handing out candy for killing in Fakeistime?
‘Cause he sure as hell ain’t doing the opposite as he has continually threatened to do!
That photographer was probably a Hamas operative! And the AP will probably get a Pulitzer.
That “parade” should have ended in a flash from a drone strike.
I wish it had!
Soon we will see other pictures then the enemy is within in all nations and soon he will say thanks for the stupidness. They parade the pictures of death as if they want this and yes they will get more than they ever thought. The west is busy crawling up their xsses and to please them they show pictures like this and give them prizes so that they are not that bad…YES THEY ARE and soon they will be able to take pictures like this directly in front of their doors, IDIOTS.