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CATEGORY DESCRIPTION
A picture of spot news, general news or issue reporting event taken outside of the U.S.
1st Place
Carolyn Cole
Los Angeles Times
ONLY WAY OUT- Palestinians crouch inside the Door of Humility for a glimpse of the outside world as Israeli tanks and soldiers take aim at the Church of the Nativity. Eight men died inside before the 39 day siege came to an end.
2nd Place
Adam Nadel
F reelance
With an IDF tank keeping watch, men surrender in Ramallah, West Bank, after negotionating surrender via cell phone following a lengthy and volatile standoff on March 30, 2002.
3rd Place
Barbara Davidson
The Dallas Morning News
There are no scales to weigh the misery of a captured holy warrior stuck in one of Afghanistan's most isolated and desolate prisoner-of-war camps. The prisoners are given small amounts of food and water every 24 hours. As many as 1,000 Taliban and Pakistani prisoners suffocated to death in freight containers during transport to this notorious Sheberghan prisoner-of-war camp.
Honorable Mention
Milton Amador
Metrowest Daily News
The body of a two days old boy,who died from AIDS related illness,lay in a box at a hospital's morgue,in the Dominican Republic, waiting to be taken to a common grave.-The Caribbean it's,after sub-Saharan Africa,the second most affected region in the world.-
Honorable Mention
Jerome Delay
AP
Hundreds of Iraqis storm the Abu Ghraib jail Oct. 20, 2002 following the annoucement by President Saddam Hussein that most of Iraq's prisoners would be freed. Tens of thousands of prisoners were greeted by their relatives and friends upon their release.
Honorable Mention
Michael Robinson-Chavez
The Washington Post
The seemingly endless battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians took a savage and bloody turn throughout the spring of 2002. Suicide bombings ravaged Israel with alarming frequency and resulted in the Israeli Defense Forces invading and taking several West Bank cities. Jenin, a city devestated, Ramallah, where Arafat was imprisoned for 5 weeks, Bethlehem, where Palestinian gunmen fled into the alleged birthplace of Christ and Nablus, whose old markets were the scenes of pitched gun battles dominated headlines across the world. Sixty days of violence that still seems to echo in the sporadic acts of horror that occur in the region daily. Here a woman weeping in the destroyed streets of the Jenin refugee camp laments the destruction of her family's home. Palestinians accused Israelis of a massacre of over 500 killed while the Israeli army states that less than 100, mostly fighters, were killed in the West Bank town.
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