BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza admits he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten in the streets of Gaza on October 7, and deliberately never published it, to protect the identities of the people beating them.
He did post other October 7 footage that day, celebrating the attack. He quietly deleted it later.
Azaiza is an influential "photojournalist" from Ghazza. TIME named him to the TIME 100. He was nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. CNN, the Guardian and Sky all interviewed him.
Ms. Rachel Griffin-Accurso, who has 16 million subscribers, made a video for preschoolers introducing "my friend Motaz." She deleted it later.
Two weeks ago, he did a 3 hour and 38 minute interview in Arabic.
He made a number of EXTRAORDINARY admissions.
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What sparked the millions-strong uprising?
Shop owners in Rasht’s historic market went on strike for a few days. Almost the whole city shut down, only a few pharmacies and grocers open.
The regime warned: break the strike or we burn the market. Strikes continued.
Then Islamic regime security forces surrounded the bazaar, set it ablaze with people trapped inside the flames. They shot anyone trying to escape. Hundreds of shops were burned and several dozen died. Reports say the smell of charred bodies lingered for hours.
If you stayed quiet when this happened, don’t speak on behalf Iranians. We welcome the attacks on the regime.
@Osint613 From first hand experience, (both my little kids are sleeping in the mamad until we join then for the next siren) those are probably the firework-like sounds we hear near the end of the volley, which I assume means they are just parts breaking up in the atmosphere, not clusters