November 28, 2024, Khan Yunis, Gaza, Palestine: Palestinians including many women and children tussle in desperation to receive food cooked in a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) May 18, 2025, Gaza, Gaza, Palestine: A young boy visibly malnourished stands with a large empty pot for food, as displaced Palestinians go to receive a free meal at a displacement camp in central Gaza City, amid widespread famine due to the closure of crossings for more than two months, the failure to allow aid into the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing military escalation in the Gaza Strip. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) January 26, 2025, Gaza, Gaza, Palestine: Displaced Palestinians arrive in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel’s decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) June 18, 2025, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestine: Palestinians bury the bodies of their relatives killed yesterday evening at an aid distribution area in the Sudanese area, northwest of Gaza City. Nine martyrs were reported and arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital, with a number still to be recovered. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) January 22, 2025, Gaza, Gaza, Palestine: Humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, in Rafah on Wednesday, days after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas entered into force. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) July 27, 2024, Deir al-Balah, Gaza: A man carries an injured child. More than 30 deaths and dozens of injured after the Israeli army bombed Khadija School, which houses thousands of displaced people, in the city of Deir al-Balah. Israel’s military said it had struck a ‘Hamas command centre’ in the school complex. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) September 30, 2024, Gaza, Gaza, Palestine: A family sits around an open fire on a rooftop in the destroyed city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) September 26, 2024, Gaza, Palestine: Palestinians mourn for 88 victims killed in the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip as bodies are buried in a mass grave. The Palestinian health ministry refused to bury them before Israel discloses names or ages of the victims or locations where they died. The bodies were brought into Gaza in a container on a truck through an Israeli-controlled crossing. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) June 25, 2024, Gaza, Gaza, Palestine: Palestinians bid farewell and mourn their relatives who were martyred yesterday evening, late at night, after their home in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip was targeted. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire) April 20, 2024, Dair Al Balah, Gaza, Palestine: An injured palestinian man receives treatment inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after a bombardment by Israeli aircraft in the central Gaza Strip. An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. (Credit Image: © Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire)
17th century clergyman Thomas Fuller said, “Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.” Never has that been more meaningful than today. Impactful, heartrending images are pouring out of Gaza, each more unbearable to witness than the other. Many taken while bombs are dropping or during rescue efforts shortly thereafter by photojournalists who run towards the explosions and not away from them.
Over 270 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023. This makes the conflict the deadliest for media workers on record.
Congratulations to ZUMA Photographer Saher Alghorra on winning the prestigious 2025 Humanitarian Visa d’Or award from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Saher Alghorra, thank you for your courage, your dedication, and for allowing us to “feel the truth.”