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Israeli photographer Uriel Sinai has won 1st prize from the annual World Press Photo contest for his photographs taken of the Gaza disengagement. The World Press Photo awards are commonly considered the “Oscars” of photojournalism (Photo courtesy of Uriel Sinai/Getty Images).
Sinai lived in Gush Katif for three months prior to the disengagement, taking photographs every day and documenting the settlements’ final months. He acknowledged that the evacuation was “very hard” for him. In an interview with Haaretz newspaper, “I lived there and came to understand the people. Regardless of my opinion of the evacuation, I found myself identifying with them and their cause.”
Sinai took his award-winning photo essay during the most violent day of the withdrawal – the evacuation of Kfar Darom. Anti-disengagement protestors barricaded themselves on the roof of the settlement’s synagogue, threw heavy objects and buckets of various caustic substances at the soldiers and police, who were eventually forced to storm the roof and remove the protestors by force.
See the entire photo essay here.
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