“In Aleppo I have seen civilians in a war zone, but not with heavy armored vehicular tanks and heavy clashes that were fought in the middle of them… it was mostly airstrikes,” he said. “It is impossible to get that view of the severe destruction and civilians fleeing from a traditional camera.”Ĭhaim, whose work has taken him to Syria and the Palestinian territories, said the sheer number of civilians caught in the crossfire in Mosul surprised him. “The drone provided me with a different perspective of the war,” he said. “When you are flying in the Daesh (ISIS) area you never want to capture yourself – if they get this drone they could get all your information and position,” he told CNN. Gabriel ChaimĬhaim told CNN he had to conceal himself and his equipment to capture some of the scenes from the air, masking the drone’s GPS coordinates and data to avoid being tracked. Soldiers from Iraqi special forces Golden Division conduct ground raids in west Mosul's al Tank neighborhood on April 17.
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