Close up: Photographer Hatem Moussa

In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 photo, Associated Press photographer Hatem Moussa works, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Hatem Moussa joined The Associated Press as a photojournalist in 1998. Since then, the Gaza City-based Moussa has covered repeated rounds of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in Gaza, including the wars of 2008-2009, 2012 and 2014. In addition to images of conflict, he has captured the daily lives of Palestinians.

He has won numerous awards, including the special jury prize at the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards in 2013 and AP’s Gramling Spirit Award in 2010. The Gramling judges saluted him “for inspiring his colleagues with his devotion to work and his enduring enthusiasm despite great hardship in one of the world's most volatile hotspots.”

Moussa was seriously injured in back-to-back explosions on Aug. 13, while taking pictures at a Gaza police dump for unexploded Israeli ordnance, in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. AP video journalist Simone Camilli and Palestinian translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash were killed in the incident, along with four Gaza police officers.

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This Monday, Aug. 11 2014 photo shows Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. Camilli, 35, was killed in an ordnance explosion in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 together with Palestinian translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash and three members of the Gaza police. Police said four other people were seriously injured, including AP photographer Hatem Moussa. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Camilli became the first foreign journalist killed in the current round of Israel-Hamas fighting, which has taken more than 1,900 Palestinian lives and 67 on the Israeli side. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least five Palestinian journalists or media workers have been killed in the fighting.

Moussa told a colleague that the AP team was filming at the scene when an initial explosion went off. He said he was hit by shrapnel and began to run when a second blast knocked him out. He woke up in a nearby hospital and underwent surgery before being transferred to a hospital in Israel.

Moussa, 40, is known to friends and colleagues as the “Bulldozer” because of his strength under pressure, a quality he displayed again during this war.

This gallery is a selection of outstanding imagery produced by AP photographer Hatem Moussa taken throughout his time covering Gaza City. 

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Palestinians check the damage at the Aqsa martyrs hospital which was hit by an Israeli strike Monday, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Israeli troops battled Hamas militants on Wednesday near a southern Gaza Strip town as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reported progress in efforts to end fighting that has so far killed hundreds of Palestinians and tens of Israelis. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Hamas militant talks during a press conference in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Gazans are celebrating a cease-fire agreement reached with Israel to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years constricting the Gaza Strip. The poster behind him reads: "Gaza won" and shows the picture of Ahmed Jabari,a Hamas leader assassinated on Nov.14, setting off the last round of fighting between Israel and Hamas . (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

AP10ThingsToSee- Palestinian militants from Mujahideen Brigades, a small military group in Gaza, participate in a training session in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian relatives mourn for Qasim Alwan, 4, and Imad Alwan, 6, who were killed Friday by an Israeli tank shell, during their funeral in Gaza City, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Relatives say the tank shell kit the Alwan family's kitchen, killing Qasim and Imad. Rizk Hayek, 1, who lived nearby, was killed by shrapnel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A boy looks through a hole on the wall made after an Israel strike at the Abu Hussein U.N. school in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school Wednesday sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting, killing more than a dozen and wounding tens after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said. The Israeli military said mortar shells had been fired from near the school, and that soldiers fired back. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinians inspect damages of their home after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Israel's military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip after militants there launched five rockets toward Israel. A Gaza health official says five Palestinians were lightly wounded in the Israeli air strikes. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A man takes a photo with his mobile phone of the lifeless bodies of Qasim Alwan, 4, Imad Alwan, 6, and Rizk Hayek, 1, who were killed Friday by an Israeli tank shell, during their funeral in Gaza City, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Relatives say the tank shell kit the Alwan family's kitchen, killing Qasim and Imad. Hayek, who lived nearby, was killed by shrapnel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian woman stands in the rubble of her destroyed home in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire halting the Gaza war held into Monday morning, allowing Palestinians to leave homes and shelters as negotiators agreed to resume talks in Cairo. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

An Islamic Jihad militant walks through a destroyed building adjacent to a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the movement in Gaza City, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian sleeps on the rubble of his home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire halting the Gaza war held into Monday morning, allowing Palestinians to leave homes and shelters as negotiators agreed to resume talks in Cairo. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Ibrahim Suliman Mansour during his funeral in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said the 30-year-old man was shot in the head Thursday as he was collecting scrap metal near the Israeli border. He said a second man with him was shot in the back and wounded. The Israeli military said it opened fire after several Palestinians approached the border fence in northern Gaza and began "tampering" with the structure. It said after "exhausting all other means" to remove the men, it fired at the "main instigator." (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian youth wraps a bandolier of spent bullets leftover by the Israeli army, next to his destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire halting the Gaza war held into Monday morning, allowing Palestinians to leave homes and shelters as negotiators agreed to resume talks in Cairo. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian militants from Al Nasser Brigades, an armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), participate in a training session in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian youths, one carrying a Palestinian flag, run on a hillside after Israeli troops pulled out of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006. A truce meant to end five months of deadly Israeli-Palestinian clashes took hold in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, but early violations by Palestinian militants tempered hopes the accord would help to coax moribund peace talks back to life. The Israeli military said all troops were withdrawn from Gaza in the hours before the 6 a.m. cease-fire, announced late Saturday, went into effect. Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were parked just over the border in a military staging ground in southern Israel early Sunday, and the streets of northern Gaza were empty. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A veiled Palestinian woman is seen during a weekly protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside the International Red Cross building in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. Israel holds about 9,200 Palestinian prisoners, most of whom were arrested during the past seven years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian supporters of the Hamas attend a rally in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Some tens of thousands of Hamas supporters marked the Islamic militant group's 21st anniversary with an outdoor rally Sunday, and the show of strength included a play featuring a mock-captive Israeli soldier begging for his freedom. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

In this Wednesday March 27, 2013 photo, Palestinian worker Hamuda Mahdi, who oversees production of coal at night, poses for a photograph at one of the few local charcoal manufacturing shops, east of Gaza City. In adapting to years of border blockades and shortages, Gazans have become experts at recycling and making new out of old including turning scrap wood into charcoal to be used for barbecue grills and water pipes in local restaurants and coffee houses. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian youth plays with a ball, as they sun sets in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A relative of Ahmed Abu Nasr shows his photograph at his home in Khan Younis Refugee Camp, Friday, June 1, 2012. Abu Nasr and an Israeli soldier were killed in a shootout near the border with the Gaza Strip early Friday, the Israeli military said. The exchange of fire began after the militant crossed the fence separating the Hamas-run coastal strip and southern Israel. (AP photo/Hatem Moussa)

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Since the summer, Egyptís military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. The tunnels once employed thousands of young men in Gaza. By early September, with most tunnels closed, only few tunnel workers reported to their jobs for maintenance work. Some mask their faces with shirts to avoid identification while working, for fear of repercussions in case they were to travel to Egypt in the future. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israel escalated its military campaign against Hamas on Tuesday, striking symbols of the group's control in Gaza and firing tank shells that shut down the strip's only power plant in the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far. The plantís shutdown was bound to lead to further serious disruptions of the flow of electricity and water to Gazaís 1.7 million people. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian children fly kites and sit watching the sunset n Khan Younis, a town and refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian boy reads the Quran, Islam's holy book, in the Al-Omari mosque in Gaza City on Sunday, June 29, 2014. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, refraining from eating, drinking, and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian youths practice their parkour skills in KhanYounis, southern Gaza Strip , Sunday, March 31, 2013. Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles. Training is held at cemeteries in KhanYounis. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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