2025 Edition
French and foreign students voted (14,36%) for photo #16 taken on May 19, 2025 in Gaza Strip by Bashar TALEB for AFP. The photo shows displaced Palestinians who gather to collect portions of cooked food at a charity distribution point in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 19, 2025. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 19 that Israel will "take control" of the whole of Gaza, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory. After Israel announced it would let limited aid into Gaza, the head of the World Health Organization issued a stark warning on the humanitarian crisis in the territory, saying that "two million people are starving".Bashar TALEB, for the AFP, wins Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds 2025.
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect portions of cooked food at a charity distribution point in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 19, 2025. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 19 that Israel will "take control" of the whole of Gaza, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged territory. After Israel announced it would let limited aid into Gaza, the head of the World Health Organization issued a stark warning on the humanitarian crisis in the territory, saying that "two million people are starving". © Bashar TALEB - AFP
“I would like to thank all the participants in this award, as well as my colleagues at AFP who work tirelessly to bring reliable information to the world. This recognition is not mine alone – it belongs to all of us journalists in Gaza. Working here, in the midst of this difficult war and in such terrible circumstances, is a real challenge. My hope is to live up to my responsibility as an impartial journalist and to have succeeded in showing a glimpse of life beyond the grim reality of Gaza’s borders. Thank you!”
Bashar TALEB
Christophe SIMON’s photo came in second with 14,14 % of the vote (2151 votes).
Gisele Pelicot poses in Avignon, on October 23, 2024, during the trial of her former partner accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. The court proceedings, which run until December, are open to the public at the request of Dominique Pelicot’s ex-wife and victim.
Thibaud MORITZ’s photo came in third with 13,79 % of the vote (2097 votes).
Paris Saint-Germain’s players light smoke flares as they parade on a bus on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on June 1, 2025, a day after PSG won the 2025 UEFA Champions League final football match against Inter Milan in Munich.
The fourth step is occupied by the photo of Omar AL-QATTAA, also taken in the Gaza Strip and popular with 12.06% of the votes (1834 votes).
A man takes cover behind a column as an explosion propagates smoke and dust during an Israeli strike which reportedly targeted a school in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City, on September 1, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group.
If the goal of the device is to allow each student of 3rd to look at the news throughout the world, it is also and above all to take the pulse of a generation that will make the democracy of tomorrow, guarantor of freedom!
The 2025 selection
Key figures for the 2025 edition
15200
students
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13
countries
Between July and September 2025, all around the world, teachers worked with their pupils on the selection of Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds. More than 15,200 young people took part in the vote!
Students from France, South Africa, Germany, Australia, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Madagascar, Morocco, Mauritania, Philippines, Togo and Tunisia participated in the operation.
In France, schools from 63 departments participated: Ain, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Aveyron, Calvados, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Corrèze, Côte-d’Or, Côtes-d’Armor, Dordogne, Drôme, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Finistère, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Landes, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Lot, Lozère, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Mayenne, Morbihan, Moselle, Nord, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Puy-de-Dôme, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Sarthe, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Var, Vaucluse, Vendée, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Vosges, Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d’Oise.
Over seas, schools of New Caledonia and Martinique have also voted.