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A prestigious university has been branded a 'disgrace' after it awarded the world's oldest photojournalism prize for a picture of a mutilated and murdered October 7 victim.
Shani Louk, 22, became a symbol of the brutal Hamas attack after the world saw the picture of gunmen rushing her half-naked corpse back to Gaza on the back of a pick-up.
That photo was the centerpiece of the submission that won photo agency AP the Team Picture Story of the Year category from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
'RJI thinks a horrifying picture of Shani Louk's half-clothed, dead body is award-winning work,' tweeted GOP House whip Tom Emmer.
'Disgusting.'
The 22-year-old German-Israeli was among 364 people killed at the SuperNova Festival which she was attending with her boyfriend.
Family photos of the young woman showed a happy and carefree spirit at the outset of her adult life and friends of her family have said that that is how she should be remembered.
'This is how we choose to remember the beautiful Shani Louk,' wrote one. 'We will not allow her memory to be trampled by the inhuman thugs celebrating the AP photo of her tragic murder.'
'I am horrified,' wrote another. 'This is a picture of terrorists parading a dead body of a Jewish woman after they murdered her. Shame on you.'
Louk's family and other victims of the SuperNova killings sued AP and fellow news agency Reuters in February accusing them of collusion in the atrocities they documented.
They claim that agency freelancers were 'longstanding Hamas affiliates and full participants in the terrorist attack', who knew it was about to take place.
Lobby group HonestReporting, which raised concerns about the coverage posted its 'congratulations' to AP for winning the award.
'How does it feel to do so on the back of Palestinian photojournalists who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7 and took photos like the one below of Shani Louk's dead body in a Hamas pickup?' they demanded.
'Was RJI bothered about that before bestowing the award?'
The sentiment was echoed by Israeli MP and diplomat Danny Danon who tweeted: 'This photo captures Hamas terrorists desecrating the body of Shani Louk, may her soul rest in peace.
'Yet the AP news agency proudly received an award for it. Their continued pride in their photographers' 'work' and involvement in the atrocities is shameful.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13251559/Shani-Louk-ap-photo-journalism-prize-hamas-israel.html
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