Wissam NassarWissam Nassar is a Palestinian photojournalist.CareerNassar studied journalism at the Islamic University in Gaza. He started his career covering Israeli-Hamas wars in 2008. Nassar, along with Tyler Hicks and Sergey Ponomarev, was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his 2014 photography in Gaza. His 2018 photo of a young woman in Palestine with a crutch and slingshot hurling stones at Israeli troops has been compared to the biblical story of David and Goliath. Nassar has worked for the New York Times and Deutsche Presse-Agentur. As of 2025, he had 1.7million followers on Instagram.Personal lifeNassar was born in 1984 in Gaza, where he still lives and works. He and his family are refugees. Nassar was friends with fellow journalist Roshdi Sarraj.