You've probably never heard of Gaza photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and are unaware of an interview he gave earlier this month, where he criticized the Gaza media and Hamas, and at the same time, admitted not publishing photos showing Israeli captives being beaten in Gaza.  Aside from The Jerusalem Post and MEMRI's coverage, you'd be hard pressed to find it anywhere else, certainly not prominently in our liberal media. Azaiza gave the interview to Ahmed Biqui on the podcast Taqarrab, Azaiza.According to the Post, "Azaiza said he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten by a Gazan mob on October 7 2023, but chose not to publish the footage because he feared it could put the Palestinians involved at risk. “I saw the vehicle of the Al-Qassam Brigades, and there were Israeli captives there, people got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos. Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed."Azaiza said he understood that if he revealed the faces of those beating the Israelis, eventually Israel would eliminate each one, and added, ""I did not want to be responsible, even indirectly, for the deaths of those people in exchange for a few likes and views online.” Of course Israel has been taking out October 7th leaders and participants one by one for many months now, but a journalist hiding the truth to protect terrorist thugs is exactly the problem that coverage of Israel and Gaza has been suffering for decades. And Azaiza described a much wider journalistic coverup in GazaAccording to MEMRI, New York-based Azaiza, who is an employee of UNRWA, and was evacuated with his family to Qatar in 2024, revealed photojournalists in Gaza opting not to film residents who criticize Hamas. "When someone gets out of the ambulance and says something like, "May Allah punish Hamas", and I'm filming him, and people around him turn off the camera.. I honestly couldn't bring myself to look away from what he is saying, or turn away the camera from what he was saying. Ultimately, he's simply blaming his government, the one responsible for dragging him into a war like this."Azaiza continued with an admission, "So I was in a state of inner conflict at first. To be honest, I found it hard to publish things like this at first... I've never seen a journalist from Gaza publish something like this." The host interjected, "Usually things like this are not published," to which Azaiza replied, "Right, if someone says something like this, many journalists lower the camera."According to the Jerusalem Post story, Azaiza also ripped Hamas's leadership, in no uncertain terms, accusing the terrorist group of bringing disaster upon the Gaza Strip.“From October 7 until today, show me one Palestinian who lives in Gaza and was protected by Hamas’s weapons? No one in Gaza received protection from those weapons.” Azaiza went on to criticize Hamas’s leadership over its months-long refusal to agree to a deal. “I am not waiting two years to judge whether Hamas made mistakes. I see the mistake in front of my eyes, when people are dying every day. Now they are talking about an agreement in which they will agree to lay down their weapons. You could have agreed to that already on October 11, 2023. Why was it so important that tens of thousands would be killed? On what table did you put the Palestinian issue? You brought us back to the Middle Ages. You caused women in Gaza to urinate into a plastic bucket. This does not bother you, but what bothers you is if someone suddenly criticizes you?”This interview provided devastating truth about what is taking place and has been taking place with media coverage inside Gaza since October 7th. Azaiza is no angel, having admittedly participated in covering up events, but one would hope that what he has come forth with, including his brutal take-down of Hamas, and how they have harmed the Palestinian people, would gain traction here in our media. Unfortunately, it will not.