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Khaled
Zighari
Finalist : Hard News
Palestinian
"Jerusalem - Sharon's Visit"
Shot September 2000
Reuters
Judge's
Comment
"This gave me goosepimples. He followed the action very well and
managed to show both sides of the story."
Early
on the morning of Thursday 28 September 2000, freelance cameraman and
photographer Khaled Zighari, commissioned by Reuters, sneaked past heavy
security to position himself inside Temple Mount in preparation for Ariel
Sharon's visit. This visit - a gesture to demonstrate Israeli sovereignty
over ground that had caused a breakdown in the peace talks between Israel
and the Palestinians just weeks earlier - was bound to be provocative.
Khaled's camera caught the action as Sharon, surrounded by a wall of security agents, toured the Temple Mount compound. He filmed the clashes as angry Muslim worshippers emerged to find a phalanx of Israeli riot police outside Al Aqsa Mosque. The following day, during even more violent clashes, Khaled was shot by the police with a rubber-coated steel bullet, which penetrated his thigh. His camera was lost in the confusion. Recuperation from the wound was slow and Khaled was unable to work for the entire first month of the Intifada - a severe blow for a freelance journalist. His pictures, however, continue to be used by broadcasters around the world.
Khaled Zighari is 30 years old and trained both as a journalist and photographer. He has written for numerous Palestinian, Arab and international newspapers and periodicals. As a freelance cameraman and photographer, he has participated in over 150 photo exhibitions in the Arab World, Europe and the USA and worked on television features for CBS News, ABC, SAT 1, Reuters, AP and MTV.
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