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Sep 2024
22m 58s

Motaz Azaiza: Photographing Gaza

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. His images of death, destruction and loss in Gaza went viral across the world. He left 108 days after Israel launched its military response to Hamas’s October 7th attack. What impact have his images had, on him, and us?

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