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Laurent Rebours

He is a Paris photographer that was working for the Associated
Press when he took the photo.
He won a prize because of a photo about the Libyan revolution the 13th of
October 2011

Who?

Where?

In Gaza

When?

October 29,2000

What is
happening?

There’s a boy of 15 years old called Faris Odeh*. Faris is throwing stones to a tank because the presence of this one was not legal, all this during the Second Intifada/Al-Aqsa Intifada which began in September 2000. This boy made the same the 8th of November and, because of that, was shot in the neck & killed by Israeli troops.

* Faris Odeh  ( Zeitoun quarter of Gaza City 3 December 1985 – 8 November 2000)

Faris Odeh, the boy that faced a tank

Click to read the whole composition

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