LONDON: Almost two years after capturing the iconic image of Nada Jwaifel that became one of Time magazine’s Top 10 photos of 2023, Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza has reunited with the young woman who was pulled from the rubble of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Azaiza met Jwaifel, 19, this week in Washington D.C., where she is receiving medical treatment.
The photo, which showed her trapped under the rubble of her destroyed home at Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, helped spark the global outpouring of support and mobilize the urgent medical intervention that saved her life.
Azaiza had been documenting the work of Gaza’s Civil Defense teams in late October 2023 when he found Jwaifel buried beneath the remains of an eight-story building flattened by an Israeli airstrike. Seven of her siblings and her grandmother were killed in the attack.
“It was the light from my camera flash that discovered her,” Azaiza said in an earlier Instagram post.
