Gaza Journalist MoTaz Says Israel Killed His Friend, Drone Operator (Photo on X MoTaz @azaizamotaz9)
Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian journalist and content producer, who has been sharing the footage of the Israel bombing and the subsequent miseries since the beginning of the Israel offensive in Gaza, says that Israel killed his friend and the drone camera operator. Because the drone operator was killed, he says, there will not be aerial footage to show the massive destruction on the main way in the middle area. Israel, the journalist adds, killed all the journalists with drones or intercepted and stole their drones as you saw before.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he further said that he is trying to show with his phone and camera now. “Israel killed my friend; the drone camera operator so there will not be aerial footage to show the massive destruction on the main way in the middle area. Israel killed all the journalists with drones or intercepted and stole their drones as you saw before. But I’m trying to show you with my phone and camera. It’s all about destruction, it will take years to rebuild all of this. People are exhausted everyone is tired, we’ve lost a lot,” the Palestinian journalist wrote.
Israel killed my friend, the drone camera operator so there will not be aerial footage to show the massive destruction on the main way in the middle area. Israel killed all the journalists with drones or intercepted and stole their drones as you saw before. But I’m trying to show… pic.twitter.com/sllaRxAk4P
— MoTaz (@azaizamotaz9) January 17, 2024
MoTaz, one of the journalists from Gaza whose Instagram followers surged to over 18 million from 25,000 before the beginning of the ongoing war, has been showcasing the ground realities of the cities in Gaza. He captures videos of the destructions; people trapped under the collapsed buildings and their rubbles, the bombing of the civilian apartments, the helpless crying of injured and frightened women and children and the other live moments of the average Gazans amid waves of back-to-back bombing.
The unfiltered coverage of the Gaza journalist has been helping the journalist and the rest of the world to know what exactly happening in Gaza, even though it captures mere a drop from the sea of miseries.
According to a report by the Reporters Without Borders, Gaza has become the most unsafe and dangerous place for journalists. Since the inception of the latest conflict, around 80 journalists have been killed in Gaza.
When it increasingly becomes difficult for journalists to get the ground reality in Gaza due to the safety concerns, citizen journalist like MoTaz plays an invaluable role in exposing the plight of the Palestinian civilians reeling under genocidal war, when the rest of the world appears to be indifferent.
