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This photo, by Rina Castelnuovo of the New York Times, won third place in the World Press Photo competition's 'General News' category. It shows an Israeli settler in Hebron taking time out from his Purim celebrations to throw wine at a passing Palestinian woman.

More striking images here. Many disturbing, some heartening, all artistically gorgeous.

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[jjhunter]

Did you read through the entire commentary section? The photo you included in your post is exceptionally powerful, and the photographer's comments re: taking the shot make it even more so:

The streets were mostly empty. I stopped to photograph some settlers marking the Jewish holiday of Purim. They were passing around a bottle of wine, toasting the holiday, nothing out of the ordinary. I noticed a Palestinian woman walking along the shut-down stores. A group of settlers were walking in the middle of the street in the opposite direction when one of them took a step towards her. I instinctually raised the camera.

She didn’t scream or stop, she hurried up the street and vanished around the corner. I was left angered and saddened — as if the wine hit me.