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This photo won the award of Winner World Press Photo in 2013 and it was taken by the Swedish
photographer Paul Hansen. The bodies of two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his elder brother Muhammad, almost four, are carried by their uncles to a mosque for their funeral, in Gaza City.
In the background, we can see a crowd of people walking down a narrow street with buildings in poor condition on both sides. On the people’s faces we can perceive feelings of anger and sadness. At the bottom, we can see how these two men's are carrying the bodies of the two children. The little children may have lost their parents.
Their bodies are wrapped in a white cloth stained with blood and their faces are uncovered with wounds and dust. It must be an extremely hard and desperate situation. They must have died due to an explosion of a bomb, a gunfire, or an airplane attack. In the middle of the image we can observe the grey tones of colours on the walls, clothes... and a clear and beautiful light.
Anger, fury, despair, sorrow, pain, annoyance, sadness... These are some of the main terrible adjectives that convey this spectacular image to me. But, above all, it transmits to me helplessness at seeing an injustice. We need a change; it can’t be that every day innocent people die.
The scream of the injustice
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