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Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti took this photograph at a funeral in Gaza City on Oct. 13. He caught a man reacting as the bodies of two of his relatives were being brought in for the funeral ceremony. According to witnesses, the two - a man and his daughter - had been killed during an Israeli attack on a building in Gaza City.
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On one of the deadliest days in the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, Emilio Morenatti photographed a Palestinian gunman taking cover from Israeli army fire in Beit Lahiya on Oct. 23. The graffiti on the wall is a wedding greeting.
Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press
On July 17, in the Israeli city of Haifa, Emilio Morenatti photographed relatives at the funeral of David Feldman. He had been killed the day before when a rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israel town of Kiryat Byalik.
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Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press photographer
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The pictures on this page are examples of the work of Emilio Morenatti, a photographer for the Associated Press, who spent a day in captivity last week after he was abducted by unknown gunmen in Gaza City.
Blindfolded and forced to wear women's clothing, Morenatti was taken from place to place in Gaza City for 16 hours before being released unharmed at the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the evening of Oct. 24 - just the latest abduction in the increasingly chaotic Gaza Strip bordering Egypt and Israel.
"There were very anguished moments," he said.
Morenatti was the 11th journalist kidnapped in Gaza since 2004. Two other attempted abductions were foiled.
Morenatti, 37, from Jerez, Spain, began working for the AP in April 2004, when he spent a year in Afghanistan covering the conflict there. He also covered the recent war in Lebanon and the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany.
He has been based in the Jerusalem bureau of the AP since April 2005, handling periodic assignments in Gaza and the West Bank.
Morenatti said he was in complete darkness for much of the time he was held captive. He said he was given a meal of cheese and lunch meats early in the day and some fruit later on.
He said the kidnappers kept him in a small room, where he was held for about four hours during which he was visited by masked men. Later he was put in a car dressed as a woman.
"They put a bag on my head and they dressed me up as a woman, as a woman in a long veil," he said.
After his ordeal, Morenatti said it might be hard to go back to Gaza, but he hopes "to do so soon."
