Motaz Azaiza: Photographer recounts covering the horrors of the war in Gaza

Palestinian video journalist and photographer Motaz Azaiza talks to Sky's Yalda Hakim about his last memories of Gaza before he and many others were forced to evacuate, and what he thinks will happen next.
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[@afifaamin6944]

The Palestinian people deserve humanity, dignity and freedom.

[@christinetaia8735]

Absolutely Totally agree with your comment 💯 Palestinian Lives matter 🇵🇸 Palestinian have the right to Exist 🇵🇸❤️ New Zealand 🇳🇿🕊️🇵🇸❤️

[@CJones-99]

Yes they do, but they continue to support hamas.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

The West couldn't care less about them, sadly. Spouts israeli propaganda, instead.

[@fafatv8717]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸♥️♥️🌏🌏♥️♥️🙏🤲

[@fafatv8717]

@@CJones-99 shame israël ' israël Génocide apartheid 🤮👎

[@jihanelaraichi]

Finally Sky news giving palestinians a voice

[@amorfati529]

Voice to lies.

[@roiissac158]

Voice of a 🤡

[@soumias04]

Because the narrative shifted ,people see right through the lies of msm, so sky news had to lay low with the zio propagnda to keep looking relevant.

[@baharinkamarul3389]

Ikr...it feels unreal. now lets see if talktv gonna do the same

[@IsabelSanchez-jc4gl]

Voice to humanity

[@asmamalik4173]

He talks with a sad heart. This interview reduced me to tears!

[@amorfati529]

He could blame Hamas, but it's never easy to admit responsibilities

[@mimicocto]

​@@amorfati529but of course that Israelis will NEVER EVER take responsibility for anything.

[@roiissac158]

The tumor part is really sad

[@Nusaybah459]

😢

[@selmataratata339]

Dear Motaz we will continue to protest and advocate for a free Palestine ❤️🇵🇸✊

[@rafcandel2327]

Thank u

[@bisirathaile2679]

I’ve been watching motazs report while he was in Gaza And was so happy he safely made it out! He lost so many friends, his camera man, insane what he went through!

[@amorfati529]

Blame Hamas

[@earthlingkat2124]

@@amorfati529no igno@mus, blame IsraHELL£LL!

[@kianisjuan1652]

@@amorfati529Hamas didn’t even exist when Israel planted their butts in Palestine driving people away from their homes with guns.

[@Nishful5]

@@amorfati529Or Bi-bi who funds Hummus.

[@CS-so4cp]

What a amazing man what he has done is amazing and what he continues to do is incredible but u can tell he’s extremely depressed,traumatized, I feel so bad what a horrible way to have to live with these memories 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@user-vd2pk9pm9x]

I dont understand why we the people are not taking real action

[@debraberg4513]

how can most of Americans who support Palestine afford to do so....but for the fact many of us are engaging on SM on some level over what is happening in terms of stealing land and ethnic cleansing?? We don't have the power like our governments do ... other than civilians not paying taxes. Unfortunately governments can keep "printing" money.

[@hike2991]

Say how? We collect money and send 50.000 helpers their way?

[@854Z]

We have and been silenced.

[@MahmoudWaz]

Powerful lobbies, billionaires, military industrial complex.

[@amorfati529]

Most of the people support Israel.

[@mohmedhassan6875]

Israeli president said in the beginning that there's no uninvolved civilians in Gaza Israel finance minister said that returning the hostages is not a priority It was never about the hostages it's just meaningless revenge

[@pauls7559]

Not meaningless. They need the land to secure oil and property for the settlers. And they say a 2000 year old book promised them the land

[@Ayat78]

Nope it’s about stealing land

[@ivopassler3519]

It is not only revenge. They want the land, they want to build the Ben Gurion Canal ...

[@danielvolschenk3103]

@@pauls7559 Your 1400year old book says the Torah and the gospel is true. Off the topic, I believe hamas is taking a lot of strain in Rafah..... Not nice when your team loses, right?

[@amorfati529]

Gaza Civilians were surely involved in Oct 7th, comitting never seen crimes to humanity. They don't deserve being called civilians

[@bernadettedunn6129]

Motaz is a beautiful man inside and out!

[@Ann-ie7xm]

Hamas puppet.

[@roiissac158]

I would not think in that direction my friend,🏳️‍🌈 still, it's Gaza

[@mandyadler4536]

"man"?????

[@s.zen.4587]

This is so heartbreaking, but important to state: we are not free and we've been too trusting in those who rule

[@Helios--]

Or that we've been led to believe rule, when they're actually just figureheads.

[@adriennefried5368]

People are responsible for the government they have.

[@s.zen.4587]

@@adriennefried5368 Thats rarely the case, fully. Yes, we can have an impact, if pushing back on policy, demonstrating etc, but most people are oppressed and their values amd votes are not represented. I mean, in many countries people have tried to oppose their governments but they end up jailed and excecuted, or flee. And in the west, votes are exchanged for lobby free market

[@nathbaklawa5304]

Wow Sky news interviewing a palestinian journalist! Nice

[@roiissac158]

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

[@HelpUsPleaseHunanity]

Incredible man

[@asmamalik4173]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@DestroyHate.]

Free Gaza From deth cult ideology !!!!

[@mollyneoline9701]

Free Free From Génocide Evil Hamas ,Before & After & Beound

[@mikaelmikis6584]

Free Palestine form Hamas

[@alisonrowell4871]

Sky News is actually giving a voice to a Palestinian - amazing!

[@amorfati529]

He lied in the first 45 seconds. But we are used to that

[@roiissac158]

And officially became a circus 🤡🇵🇸🤡🇵🇸🤡🇵🇸

[@junebrilly5302]

​@@amorfati529serious infestation of trolls here!!

[@jayneyaghmour7320]

Heartbreaking

[@Natural-Euphoria]

Stay strong ❤️🥺

[@user-pw9cx1rd9t]

I have followed Motaz, glad he got out! But he is definitely suffering from PTSD

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

I'm amazed he managed to sit still with his back free and the doors to the side.

[@YeasminiPhone]

How can anyone even stay sane after witnessing so much death and destruction

[@zharahussain8004]

​@@YeasminiPhone subhanAllah so true Allah gave him some ability to share this message. subhanAllah

[@amorfati529]

Blaming Hamas

[@ariannafalco5795]

@@amorfati529you should seek help

[@mimitek6140]

I couldn’t believe this is Sky News, finally giving Palestinians a chance to tell their stories

[@474fsde]

Free Palestine!🇵🇸 End the apartheid!! End Zionism!

[@roiissac158]

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

[@zaidal-hindawi1784]

Moataz is a very brave photo-journalist who reported what the Israeli Army 🇮🇱 was really doing in Gaza.

[@amorfati529]

The IDF is freeing Gaza.

[@roiissac158]

Im not so sure about the journalist part 🤡

[@Maia_BG]

​@@roiissac158 A journalist shows the truth. This is what he does.

[@roiissac158]

@Maia_BG A journalist should be objective and with integrity. This one is far from that, and he can't be.

[@Maia_BG]

@@roiissac158 His pictures and videos are objective. The photographer is extremely traumatised.

[@clarence-dials]

FREE 🇵🇸 PALESTINE

[@robr3512]

Palestinian with a weapon = Hamas

[@roiissac158]

Insha-allah. Palestine will be free and the capitol in the middle east for the LGBT+ community 🇵🇸🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[@adriennefried5368]

Free from Hamas terrorists

[@lextron-audio]

It's impossible to comprehend his suffering and mental health after everything he's been through, everything he's seen, all the family and friends he's lost. His world turned to a graveyard of ruins. Free Palestine from the evils of Zionism and western greed

[@adriennefried5368]

BS all military personnel who have been in military war zones go through the same. As a MD he knew the risks. No sympathy!

[@MagdiNonDuality]

Long live the Palestinian people

[@amorfati529]

Thank the IDF later

[@Maya_s1999]

Devastating to hear Moataz speaking about losing so many members of his family, friends, colleagues, sleeping rough on the streets so that the IDF AI "Where's Daddy" wouldn't send a drone to strike his family home at night. I'm heartbroken 💔 💔

[@pinkarora4496]

I have a feeling, his smile will never reach his eyes after what he witnessed. I’m sorry Motaz 😔

[@Dakshahathi]

How come Sky is finally waking up

[@roiissac158]

They decided to move into the amusement and circus business🤡🇵🇸🤡🇵🇸

[@pagal83]

Because hopefully God willing, the world is....

[@Helios--]

Most of these media companies especially the large conglomerates do what's financially expedient, in other words, whatever's popular = $$. I wouldn't say they're "waking up" or suddenly developing a conscience.

[@user-oc3ro4kt4p]

Salem Motaz, we never forgot Free Palestine

So many try to stop.... But this are just words.... ... Yes... Sad truth

[@MagdiNonDuality]

This is unacceptable. It's a HUGE crime what is going on in Gaza This darn awful occupation It is ATROCIOUS

[@amorfati529]

Oct 7th was a huge crime.

[@MagdiNonDuality]

@@amorfati529 The world did not start on Oct 7 The history of the oppression and massacre of Palestinians by the Zionists started close to 80 years ago

[@smilingsue4444]

Yes October 7th exposed the horrific Israeli crimes against Palestinians for the past 7 decades 😢

[@golmgolm]

@@amorfati529 yes but it cannot be used to justify genocide

[@skontheroad]

It's NOT! Do the math!!!

[@gansitomarinela7472]

Sky News having a Palestinian voice on? What's happening?

[@Helios--]

This is much easier to understand with subtitles on. Motaz is very soft spoken.

[@FareesaKhanAvi]

I love the interviewer. She was so specific

[@roiissac158]

Its funny to see a property interview a noble Arab man

[@Panelton]

US providing the killers with the weapons.

[@azizahsattar444]

Take care Moataz...We care...❤❤❤

[@daviddoran8474]

Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸

[@robr3512]

Palestinian with a weapon = Hamas

[@roiissac158]

🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🤟

[@Moustapha97]

This guy motaz Azaiza is a famous one. But with your hypocrite title no one will dare to see ( this is not a war ) it’s genocide

[@MounaMouna-ds2qk]

💔

[@mahrez21529]

💯

[@adriennefried5368]

Not a genocide

[@jeaninemarriere4612]

Quelqu un de bien Motaz en temps normal un journaliste doit laisser ses emotions de cote mais en temps que gazaoui il ne pouvait qu aider son peuple

[@evesdaughter6130]

Free Palestine

[@amorfati529]

From death cult ideology

[@roiissac158]

🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸☪️🏳️‍🌈☪️🏳️‍🌈

[@hope.for.palestine.7124]

Without the work of Motaz, we would not have seen the atrocities committed by Israel. His photos are heart-wrenching and difficult to look at, but they are the truth of what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people.

[@TheContiGT]

And now we see why journalists are not allowed in Gaza…… If these words were coming from familiar western faces, policy would change overnight.

[@leilaoksanen5142]

❤

[@mohmedhassan6875]

🍉🍉🍉

[@amorfati529]

Yummy. It's summertime

[@roiissac158]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦜🦜🦜

[@user-fc9tz7qj9n]

Free frreeee Palestan

[@amorfati529]

Pakistan?

[@rainedyani8505]

I hope he knows how many Americans and others around the world truly care about what’s happening and are against our government!! 😞🇵🇸💔

[@KristenConahan]

Can't believe Sky news is doing this. They've been one of the worst of them all

[@sama1852]

These media companies have pressure internally to do more. Yalda Hakim has covered Afghanistan as a BBC journalist (where she is from). However, the people in charge control output and where it's shown, such as on the big shows and channels, and keep other content more obscurely online. However, nonetheless, it shows that pressure is telling but nowhere near enough and sadly too late for so many, as Motaz says.

[@Vbluevital]

Sadly, the volume is to low.

[@skontheroad]

And Darfur?? The Sudan??

[@wajdatabassum5751]

Coming on these platforms talking about feelings of atrocities discrimination genocide some media platforms have facilitated can be triggering. Take care, Motaz

[@taniaherbst9783]

I am rather astonished that Sky did this interview!!! Hopefully more will follow?

[@relaxitsonlyart]

fix your sound sky, the ads almost made me deaf

[@sparks7949]

Horrific

[@shanajabaar1316]

🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤❤❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@user-fc9tz7qj9n]

Free Palestan

[@amorfati529]

Pakistan?

[@suganmoodley6475]

Is this the same Yalda Hakim that was broadcasting from Israel not too long ago!!!! There was no talk of the atrocities happening in Palestine.

[@junebrilly5302]

Gut wrenching. Im crying listening to this brave man describing the atrocities he witnessed. And the devastating losses

[@jameelaahmed5239]

😢😢

[@marieringsater9235]

🙏🌹

[@christonamtb4089]

I remember when he cried at Italia 90

[@Maryhadalam]

He was born in “99.

[@hmblogs1684]

🇵🇸❤️ strongest 💪 peoples Palestine 🇵🇸 They have have to defend Western Country’s and Western media

[@abubakar-gd8zl]

Finally sky doing real news

[@christophersmith4962]

I suggest Sky research Motaz’s past comments on a 2 state solution 😂

[@amorfati529]

So true

[@flam3srock]

Its not a doublestandard when one group targets civilians and the other does everything in their power to avoid hurting civilians.

[@amorfati529]

So right!!! 🫶

[@Helios--]

"does everything in their power to avoid hurting civilians." That's not what the human rights reports say. Using starvation as a weapon is a war crime, among other things...

[@MidnightPearlz]

I can't watch him speak without crying. 💔

[@295C_Red_ZONE]

❣️Aya Aya Deen Aya❣️ ❣️Aya Aya Deen Aya❣️ ❣️Aya Aya Deen Aya❣️

[@abubekerkedir134]

'Just one standard'

[@Raks78]

Is sky news ok ? Don’t tell me they hosted Motaz

[@taylor.j.s.9801]

Free Palestine 🇯🇴

[@chlorophyllmorelikeboraphy6874]

What the heck sky? Why start telling the truth now?

[@charlenebotha7164]

Nothing said about the hostages?

[@anapadilla7193]

Nop, why would he?!!! 😒 🇮🇱🎗️

[@Maia_BG]

He is talking about 2 million hostages who are currently being tortured and killed by Israel - one by one or family by family.

[@kianisjuan1652]

Israel president didn’t seem interested in negotiating the hostages with Hamas so doesn’t look like it’s a big priority for them after all.

[@behuman3801]

Wasn’t she very anti Gazan after oct 7

[@CC-hx5fz]

She wasn't an effective journalist "in the field". There's a couple on Sky who have now been given their own studio shows so they can do less damage.

[@MutiaraSeniPujangga]

Free free free Palestine from Israel,

[@HC-ri1nu]

Should ask him about his social media posts on Oct 7th. "Azaiza had posted on social media platform X a video of the kidnapping of Israelis into Gaza. He also posted a video showing Hamas terrorists inside Israel with a triumphant caption reading in Arabic: “The Gazans entered the settlements!!!!!!!! With jeeps we see in the streets of Gaza.”

[@theobroma7755]

Kibbutzim are not settlements, they all were on the Israeli side and part of the undisputed Israeli territory since 1948. 🤦🏽‍♂

[@SarahBibi-fx3jo]

We trying our best to stop netnayahu and his government right wing government and its settlers and IDF and it's settlers but Netanyahu think he is above the law we take

[@urooj3636]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@tooltime9260]

I read the comments and wonder what people know of history. Obviously little to none. People who are not "use' to war are shocked by this, but to those who are, it's just another day. This happens all around the world at different times of the calendar. War is never good or welcome, but because there are humans walking the Earth that are pure evil, war has to happen. I ask openly to everyone reading this to study what lands Israel literally owns but was stolen from them through the centuries. VERY few can answer this accurately. Get THAT answer and many of these conflicts start to have proper answers.

[@LizA0488]

My country is very relaxed about asylum seekers yet only 176 Gazans out of more than 7000 applicants cleared Canada's security screening for temporary asylum. Hamas are Gazans.

[@MitchObriens]

I wouldn't trust them

[@Sk9999-jr1gx]

That’s because Canada sends weapons to the idf terrorists and the whole world is seeing it.

[@aisya1210]

A lot of stupid questions from the interviewers. The questions only add to his pain.

[@atolz1352]

Example?

[@Helios--]

It's Sky News. My expectations were already low.

[@NICKDEVILS420]

Not a single question about Hamas.

[@amorfati529]

Unbearable

[@mimicocto]

So?

[@kianisjuan1652]

Cause that’s not the main issue..? The main issue is Israel killing innocent civilians. Ofc what happened on oct 7th was awful but see the bigger picture. Killing 40 000+ innocent civilians, BABIES is a genocide and is wrong…

[@axel-wn3od]

good that he can live in Doha ,Qatar safe away from Gaza

[@295C_Red_ZONE]

From the River to the Sea ❣️❣️❣️ PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Will Be Free❣️❣️❣️

[@atolz1352]

We're so used to the common lies and slogans of the pals . It's almost meaningless

[@tatianamaria2591]

👏👏👏❤✌🇵🇸🤲🕊

[@SarahBibi-fx3jo]

Two way solution for Gaza Israeli people settlers must get out of Palestinian territory immediately it's not their state Idf soldiers must get out of Gaza stay on their side of the fence period

[@theobroma7755]

There haven't been any Israeli settlers in Gaza since 2005! All 21 Israeli settlements in Gaza were unilaterally dismantled by the IDF. 🤦🏽‍♂ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza

[@erichw.]

And the answer to “all“ questions is: “Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic“ (Ilan Pappe), coming soon, in the meanwhile: “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy“ (Mearsheimer, Walt)

[@theobroma7755]

12:05 When did Palestine accept a two-state solution? 🤔 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CkcpurqLN6ZtE&t

[@rainedyani8505]

#StopIzrahell!!!

[@rivkablum8103]

Nothing said about Hamas and the same on his Instagram page he never condemns or mentions Hamas

[@amorfati529]

That's why i stopped watching after few minutes

[@mimicocto]

Why should he? He wasn't asked about them.

[@Maya_s1999]

How about the countless people the IDF kills every day for no reason? How about those kidnapped in Sde Teiman ???

[@Maia_BG]

Israel has surpassed the crimes of Hamas.

[@DestroyHate.]

PALESTINIAN REFUGEES Egypt-refused Jordan-refused Iraq-refused Syria-refused Pakistan-refused Turkey-refused Iran-refused Afghanistan-refused Also UAE and Saudi Arabia. What does that say about these individuals it surely isn't good is it ???????

[@fatimah9202]

The Palestinians do not want to leave their homeland. They don't want to be ethnically cleansed. If all the countries took them in, they would not be allowed to return home.

[@Maia_BG]

It says they don't want a repetition of the past where Palestinians fled the war and Israel never allowed them to return.

[@aliciahernandez3879]

It is very sad to see that Israel does whatever it wants, violating all the treaties and agreements and going above and beyond the institutions and the Palestinian people.

[@Maryculligan]

Who started this war?

[@facehugger3]

Where was this genocide he survived? I thought he was in gaza? And not in an israeli kibbutz on October the 7th?

[@amorfati529]

Exactly

[@mimicocto]

IDF is implied in both cases.

[@gooner2047]

Both genocides caused by the barbaric IDF

[@gooner2047]

Both caused by IDF

[@Helios--]

@@mimicocto Yep. They 'HannibaI'd' many kibbutz residents that day. Even 🇮🇱 media reported on it.

[@295C_Red_ZONE]

آئى آئى آزادى❤ لے كه رهيں گے آزادى❤ يه وعده همارا آزادي❤ كشمير بنے گا پاكستان❤ كشمير همارا هے پاكستان❤

[@Lolaaestereo]

Sky allowing Palestinians voices ! Surprised they didn’t ask Motaz if he condemns Hamas. This situation is horrendous. the Palestinian & the occupying Israeli conflict is no not complicated. Is simple is resistance against a brutal occupation and dispossession that started long before the creation of Israhell 1948 and continue until this day with full impunity and with support of United States, United Kingdom, germany and France. They are complicit of this ongoing genocide #freepalestine

[@kroubian]

Gazans are Hamas, that is the crux.

[@295C_Red_ZONE]

From the Sea to the River❣️❣️❣️ PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Will Live Forever❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@paulaosborne5406]

Sky news the biased news channel.

[@varadharajannadarajah]

Hope Hakim will interview Israeli Photographer, who remembers Kibbutz Beeri, as it was before oct 7.

[@christinetaia8735]

It's sad what happened in Kibbutz the lives lost on both sides .What's happening in Gaza is horrific inhumane the Slaughtering of defenceless unarmed Palestinian civilians 35000 death Toll raising daily thousands of Palestinian bodies still laying under the Rubble unaccounted for . Free Palestine 🇵🇸🕊️🇵🇸 New Zealand 🇳🇿🕊️🇵🇸

[@Stevemcqueen808]

​@@christinetaia8735at least update your numbers when the UN does

[@christinetaia8735]

@@Stevemcqueen808 Free Palestine 🇵🇸🕊️🇵🇸

[@MitchObriens]

​@christinetaia8735 why did hamas start this war? For fun? Did hamas not know that Israel would come after them. I feel sorry for civilians not hamas

[@elizehauptfleisch8233]

Is he really a journalist. Propaganda, propaganda.

[@Maryhadalam]

Yes he is. A young journalist but he has had had a lot of trauma.

[@anapadilla7193]

$$$$$$

[@gailmager4147]

Ask Hamas what they did with billons of dollars that was donated to gaza.

[@celineokeeffe6733]

Throwing money at them will not make them accept the occupation.

[@amorfati529]

​@@celineokeeffe6733 which occupation??? 😂😂😂

[@Maia_BG]

​@@amorfati529 Go to Gaza and see.

[@skontheroad]

"We believe...",,,??? Who's WE??? Who is giving him these talking points? Because he doesn't seem to want to be there and his English sucks. He is trying to recall what he was told to say... "we have no more playgrounds??" Yeah, sure!

[@andypeutherer4218]

This woman is soulless. Beyond sick.

[@Harobaroh]

Why?

[@cathyjoy9214]

She's simply interviewing him and respectfully allowing him to speak

[@najahrammouni7492]

She's not the one that's soulless on this chat