May 6 (Reuters) - Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on

Monday, taking home the breaking news photography award for

searing images of the Israel-Gaza conflict as well as the

national reporting award for a series of investigations into

Elon Musk's manufacturing empire.

ProPublica won the coveted public service award for stories

detailing undisclosed gifts and trips that U.S. Supreme Court

justices, particularly Clarence Thomas, accepted from wealthy

donors. The New York Times and the Washington Post each captured

three prizes.

The annual Pulitzers, first presented in 1917, are the most

prestigious honors in U.S. journalism.

Reuters photographers - often working at great risk to their

personal safety - have produced thousands of images documenting

the war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the militant

group's early-morning Oct. 7 attack in Israel that killed 1,200

people.

Since then, Israel's retaliatory offensive in the Gaza Strip

has killed more than 34,000 people, including many children, and

displaced the majority of its 2.3 million residents. Nearly half

of the population is suffering catastrophic levels of hunger,

according to the World Food Programme.

The winning photos include an image taken in October by

Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem, depicting a Palestinian

woman cradling the body of her 5-year-old niece in Gaza. That

photograph previously won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo

of the Year.

Reuters' Musk series, "The Musk Industrial Complex,"

revealed a spate of worker injuries and one death at Musk's

rocket company SpaceX and the mistreatment of animals at his

brain-implant company, Neuralink.

In addition, Reuters found that electric car pioneer Tesla

covered up dangerous defects, rigged its cars'

dashboard driving-range estimates and shared sensitive images

recorded by its vehicles without drivers' knowledge. The series

prompted investigations in the U.S. and Europe and calls for

action from U.S. lawmakers.

Reuters shared the national reporting prize with the

Washington Post, which won for its examination of the AR-15

rifle and its role in U.S. gun violence.

"These Pulitzer recognitions showcase some of Reuters'

greatest strengths - urgent, expert, on-the-ground coverage of

historic world events as they unfold, and dogged, revelatory and

agenda-setting business journalism that serves our global

audience and the public interest," Reuters Editor-in-Chief

Alessandra Galloni said.

In addition to Salem, the winning photography team included

staff photographers Ahmed Zakot, Amir Cohen, Ammar Awad, Evelyn

Hockstein, Anas al-Shareef, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Mohammed Salem

and Ronen Zvulun, and freelance journalist Yasser Qudih.

The team for the Musk series was Marisa Taylor, Steve

Stecklow, Norihiko Shirouzu, Hyunjoo Jin, Rachael Levy, Kevin

Krolicki, Marie Mannes, Waylon Cunningham and Koh Gui Qing.

The Times won the international reporting prize for its

coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict, while the newspaper's

Hannah Dreier was awarded the investigative reporting prize for

exposing the use of migrant child labor in the U.S.

Lookout Santa Cruz, a digital-only local news outlet, won

the breaking news reporting prize for its coverage of

catastrophic flooding that struck California in January 2023.

The Associated Press won for feature photography for its

coverage of migrants trekking from Latin America to the U.S.

The prizes are administered by Columbia University. They are

named for newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who died in 1911

and left money to create the awards and establish a journalism

school at the university.