2023 International Spot News
First Place - 2023 International Spot News
Palestinians pull the body of a young girl out of rubble from a residential building leveled in an Israeli airstrike on Al Shati Refugee Camp Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Israel's retaliation escalated after Gaza's militant Hamas rulers launched an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, October 7, 2023, killing over 1,200 Israelis and taking captive dozens. Heavy Israeli airstrikes on the enclave has killed over 1,200 Palestinians.
Fatima Shbair / Associated Press
Second Place - 2023 International Spot News
The body of a woman who was killed in a Russian rocket attack on a multistory building lies under rubble in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023.
Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press
Third Place - 2023 International Spot News
Kateryna Zelenska is pulled from the rubble of a Dnipro apartment block destroyed by a Russian air strike. Trapped for 18 hours, she was unable to signal for help as her sister revealed she is deaf, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine January 15, 2023.
Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
Honorable Mention - 2023 International Spot News
A severed hand lies in the rubble of a house where Ukrainian servicemen were sheltering which was destroyed by a Russian S-300 rocket strike, in Kupiansk, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023.
Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2023 International Spot News
Ukrainian military doctors treat their injured comrade who was evacuated from the battlefield at the hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive.
Evgeniy Maloletka / Associated Press