On the first day, from the early morning,
I woke up like with the shackle,
what is happening? A lot of rockets
and the sky, a lot of explosions.
And so I took my camera.
Since that day, everything has changed for Matas and everything
has changed for for Gaza.
We're used to this conditions,
but it's not like this.
What I experienced in this war,
I never expected for me to experience it.
Early on in the war you posted a video of
what looked like Gaza.
In the early morning. You hear the sound of air
strikes in the background and then
your voice,
your caption wrote, God Helpers,
has the world completely let you
and Gaza down?
We just like getting words from people.
We lost a lot. Is there a lost
Palestinians lost. So I don't know when this is going
to end.
When they will think about accepting that we are humans,
we want to live in our homeland.
They are occupying
which images and which stories stick with you most
damages of of
a young girl. She's stuck under tons of rubble.
A building that contains more than
250 person,
180 of them passed. It's difficult for for the civil
events to extract,
extract her because there is no machines.
There is no diesel for the machines.
It was so dark there.
Nearly half of Gaza's population
are kids under the age
of 18.
You posted this video of little kids fooling around.
You said you were trying to alleviate their trauma after
they had to flee their homes.
When you think about them,
what they have lost, what they've gone through and what
so many kids are still going through,
what's the future for the young generation of Gazans?
There's a floor. You're not seeing any,
any future.
Some kids didn't, they don't tell now that they lost
their parents.
Some, some kids that they don't know.
They don't know because they are kids,
babies. So how you will
tell them that when they grow up that you lost
your parents in Gaza because Israeli
airplane through a palm under the house and the flesh
shattered around them and you survived from under like
20 ton of rubble. So how how you tell him
this?
Do you expect him to be like a
a normal human, normal person after what all
we went through?
Have you had a chance to process?
Do you think and comprehend
what sort of toll this has taken on you
till now? It's better for me to not process because
if I process what I'm what I experienced or what
I've been through,
believe me, I will.
I will not feel. OK,
so so this is a famous word.
Maybe I kept saying it during the
107 days. This is the last time you'll see me
with this
heavy, stinky fist. What made you say chalas?
It's time to take off this press jacket.
It's time to leave. Thank you.
Wait today so
you grab all the attention of the world to to
what is happening here,
but nothing changed. You didn't change anything.
I'm. I'm a man who's looking for
a solution. Right now I need to go,
to give a speech, is to talk to the world,
to protest with the people who are protesting for us
to be with them there,
to to share my stories.
I'm now in Doha, trying to make more noise from
outside.
I'm a photographer. I want to capture the beauty of
Gaza,
not the war on Gaza.
When you consider the sort of images that you have
shot,
the stories that you have told
through both still and moving imagery,
how do you feel about
the profession of journalism sometimes for like a kind of
victory for journalism, that even if they have the power
for everything.
As a young man, a photojournalist showed the world what
the Western media couldn't show and
you get the beeble hearts from outside.
What do you want the world to know about Motaz?
Motaz is just like a symbol to remind you that
there's more to see.
Motaz is a human. It's like any,
any young guy from any any part in the world.
I'm a Gazan.
I don't want wish to anyone to live the conditions
that I've been through.
We have the right to decide on our life,
Palestinian life. It's not less than the Israeli life.
Help us to to stop this and to live in
peace.