This month, Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf won the 2025 Photo Award for World Press, whose photo was 9 years old, was 9 years old and shot for the New York Times last year.

Asher (Ajjour) arms bombed by Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip), the ongoing genocide of Israel now kills at least 52,365 Palestinians since October 2023.

Speaking on Al Jazeer recently, Ajuel recalled his reaction when his mother told him that he had lost his arm: "I started crying. I was very sad, and I was in a very bad state of mind." Then, due to Israel's criminal lockdown on medical supplies and all the other materials needed for human survival, he was forced to undergo surgery without anesthesia, which was arranged in the Gaza course. "I couldn't help but feel pain, I screamed. My voice filled the corridor."

According to Abu Elouf, the first torture question a child asked to his mother was: “How will I hug you?”

To be sure, Abu Elouf's Ajjour portrait encapsulates the catastrophic suffering of Israel. Israel, with the full support of the United States, has caused it in the children in the Gaza Strip. In mid-December 2023, just two months after the genocide attack, UNICEF reported that about 1,000 children in Gaza had lost one or two legs.

Fast forward to now, the UN warned in early April that at least 100 children were killed or injured every day in besieged territory. They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but how many photos are needed to depict genocide?

Meanwhile, as the massacre marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, marking the twentieth anniversary of the Vietnam War, another bloody historical plot, the United States played a huge role in the mass killings. It happened that a nine-year-old child also became the face and body of the war: Kim Phuc, a victim of the Napalm attack provided by the United States outside the South Vietnamese village of Trang Bang in June 1972.

Nick Ut is a Vietnamese photographer from the Associated Press, running on the naked road, with burning skin and a painful picture of the world's end, taking images of the phenomenon. The photo, officially titled War Terror, but is commonly known as the Napalm Girl, won the World News of the Year Award in 1973.

In 2022, PHUC was reflected in the 50th anniversary of the attack on the photo in an interview with CNN:

Obviously, in any distant civilization, any child or adult has to endure it physically or psychologically. After spending 14 months in the hospital, Phuc continues to suffer extreme pain, thoughts of suicide and shame as photos of her nakedness and incomplete body expose everyone.

However, Napalm is just one of many weapons that the United States supports toolkits, aiming to make the planet safe against capitalism by incineration or disfigurement of the human body. Until today, Vietnamese were killed and killed by the United States during the war.

The deadly deleader Orange, who used to saturate Vietnam in the past, was also responsible for the powerlessness of all kinds of abilities in the half century after the war ended.

In her 1977 photography book, the late American writer Susan Sontag considered the function of the image in the function of becoming the front page of most newspapers in the world in 1972, a nude South Vietnamese child who had just been sprayed by American Napalm, running toward the camera on the highway and screaming in pain, which could increase the pain of television, which could make the public even more painful.

Of course, the brutal acts supported by Vietnam in the United States lasted for another three years, except for UT's publication of his photos. Now, almost all images from the Gaza Strip can be marked as the horror of war, which just confirms that barbarism is still a pleasure business.

In the current era of social media, where still images and videos are reduced to fast-firing visuals for instant consumption, the desensitization to the public cannot be underestimated - even if we are talking about nine-year-olds, both arms are blown up.

In an Instagram post on April 18, Abu Elouf wrote: "I've been doing it all the time and still hope to capture photos that will stop this war - which will stop killing, death, hunger."

She continued to plead: "But if our photos can't stop all this tragedy and horror, what's the value of the photos? What are the images you're waiting for to see what's going on inside Gaza?"

I might ask a similar question: Ultimately, what is the value of an opinion article?

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