Palestinian photographer Mahmud Abu Hamda won the photography prize for the 33rd edition of the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, which highlighted the conflict in Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
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10/10/2026
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Lusa
O palestinian photographer Mahmud Abu Hamda today won the photography prize for the 33rd edition of the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, largely marked by the conflict in Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
According to the French Press Agency, Siobhán O’Grady, Serhii Korolchuk, Anastacia Galouchka (for The Washington Post in Ukraine) in written press, Anas Baba (NPR in Gaza) on radio and Jemery Diamond and Cyril Theophilos (CNN in the West Bank) on television, complete the palmares this year, announced at a ceremony in Bayeux, France.
Canadian war reporter Lyse Doucet, BBC News, and president of the 33rd Bayeux Prize jury, who won in 2014, said she was “comfortable” to be living tonight with dozens of high school students present in the room at a “so tense” time for youth.
Based on the Gaza Strip, Mahmud Abu Hamda, who also won the public award with the report “What War Leaves Behind”, intervened at a distance, through a video shown during the awards ceremony.
The Washington Post team was awarded the story of a Ukrainian soldier who was trapped in a combat zone for 177 days.
Palestinian journalist Ana Abas, from NPR, won in the radio category with a report on the recovery of the victims' bodies in Gaza.
Jeremy Diamond and Cyril Theophilos take home the Television trophy and the video image award for the story “+Vengeance+, Israeli soldiers serving settlers in the West Bank”.
The award for young photographic reporter went to Palestinian Jehad Alshrafi of the Associated Press for the series “War and Endless Devastation in Gaza”.
A photograph of Jehad Alshrafi, in which football players are seen playing in a field surrounded by ruins, was in the center of a controversy in August.
The City Council of Deauville in France decided to remove the image of a sports photography festival, a few days after the request on the social networks of a pro-Israelite ‘influencer’.
The administrative court in Caen eventually ordered the City Council of Deauville — who denied having suffered any pressure — to display the photograph again.
Yogita Limaye, Sanjay Ganguly and Imogen Anderson, by BBC News with a paper on Afghanistan, Juan Martinez D’Aubuisson, by Society magazine with a report on Haiti, and the French channel BFMTV, with the documentary “Gaza, the weapon of the end?” were also distinguished at the 33rd Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents.