Citizen journalists are the eyes of Gaza’s people, says war reporter

Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza grew up wanting to be a travel reporter; instead, he became a war correspondent in Gaza.

His images gained worldwide attention soon after war broke out in the enclave, following the Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel in October 2023.

Today, Mr. Azaiza lives outside Gaza. But he continues to campaign for the people of Gaza who like him have experienced airstrikes, hunger and the breakdown of society under prolonged starvation and theft driven by desperation.

In an interview with UN News’s Nancy Sarkis, Mr. Azaiza says that the memory that haunts him the most from the war is of mothers searching for their children's bodies that had vanished in missile strikes.

Those women “could not even weep on their children’s bodies” he says.