A picture of her grief gripped the world. A year on, Gaza woman haunted by memories

Inas Abu Maamar’s niece and nine other family members were killed in an airstrike days after Israel began its campaign in Gaza. Now she just wants the “cascade of blood to stop."

A combination picture shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023 (L) and Inas visits a damaged cemetery where Saly was buried, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, September 11, 2024.

The Reuters photograph of Inas Abu Maamar, face buried in the shrouded body of her dead five-year-old niece Saly, was taken days after Israel began its military offensive on Gaza.

It has become one of the most vivid images of Palestinian suffering during the year-long bombing of Gaza, Israel’s response to Hamas’ October 7 attack.