TIME's top photos of 2020: Sister Kisses hand of martyred brother

The American Time magazine has published 100 of the most memorable photographs of the outgoing year.

Fuad Izmayilov's sister kisses his hand shortly after being killed in a rocket attack launched by Armenian forces on Barda, Azerbaijan, on October 28. Author of the photograph - Ivor Prickett.

Notably, on 27 and 28 October 2020, the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia, by breaching the formally declared humanitarian ceasefire, fired at a densely populated city of Barda, located approximately 40 kilometers away from the active military zone on the territory of Azerbaijan, using a Smerch multiple launch rocket system with internationally banned cluster munitions.

It is reported that 26 civilians, including children, were killed, more than 83 sustained injuries of various degrees due to the deliberate and indiscriminate attacks against the Azerbaijani civilian population. In addition to the reported civilian casualties, serious damage was inflicted upon the civilian infrastructure. This latest series of deliberate and indiscriminate attacks against Barda's civilian population has been widely documented in reports published by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights watchdogs.