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  "ar": "معتز عزايزة",
  "en": "Motaz Azaiza",
  "ur": "معتز عزائزہ"
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  "ar": "مصور صحفي فلسطيني ⁦(وُلد سنة 1999)⁩ من دير البلح في قطاع غزة، وثّق الحرب على غزة عبر إنستغرام منذ أكتوبر 2023 فوصلت صوره إلى عشرات الملايين؛ اختارته GQ الشرق الأوسط «رجل العام» 2023، وأدرجته مجلة تايم في قائمة المئة الأكثر تأثيراً سنة 2024، وكان أحد أربعة صحفيين فلسطينيين رُشحوا لجائزة نوبل للسلام 2024.",
  "en": "Palestinian photojournalist (born 1999) from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, whose Instagram documentation of the Gaza war from October 2023 reached tens of millions; GQ Middle East named him its 2023 Man of the Year, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people of 2024, and he was one of four Palestinian journalists nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.",
  "ur": "فلسطینی فوٹو جرنلسٹ ⁦(پیدائش 1999)⁩ جن کا تعلق غزہ کی پٹی کے دیر البلح سے ہے؛ اکتوبر 2023 سے انسٹاگرام پر جنگ کی دستاویز سازی نے انہیں دنیا بھر میں شہرت دی؛ ٹائم میگزین کی 2024 کی سو بااثر شخصیات میں شامل ہوئے اور 2024 کے نوبل امن انعام کے لیے نامزد چار فلسطینی صحافیوں میں سے ایک تھے۔"
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  "earliest": 1999.079310321225,
  "latest": 1999.0820482282002
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   "edtf": "1999-01-30",
   "hijri": "1419",
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   "note": "Born on 30 January 1999: the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree on the day. He was raised in the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip (the English biography; Wikidata's birthplace value is Deir al-Balah). Deir al-Balah has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written and the fact is carried here. The Hijri year 1419 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "value": "Motaz Hilal Azaiza",
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    "value": "معتز هلال محمد العزايزة",
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   "edtf": "1999-01-30",
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   "note": "Born on 30 January 1999: the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree on the day. He was raised in the Deir al-Balah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip (the English biography; Wikidata's birthplace value is Deir al-Balah). Deir al-Balah has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written and the fact is carried here. The Hijri year 1419 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Absence configuration: neither the English nor the Arabic biography carries any religion content, Wikidata has no religion (P140) value at all, and no source read attests Azaiza's own affiliation, practice or statements of faith. His name, his Gaza birth and upbringing and the queue's placement never count, so the settlement is unknown, unflagged.",
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   "source": "The English and Arabic Wikipedia biographies of Motaz Azaiza and the Wikidata item Q123270618, all read in full; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session, asserted, and the Wikidata revision re-asserted against a second live query (both 2542084820); the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the bearer <redacted> the Deir al-Balah-born photojournalist (full name Motaz Hilal Azaiza; the Arabic article gives Motaz Hilal Muhammad al-Azaiza); the QID grep across data/person on origin/main is empty, no prior record exists, and the Arabic label معتز عزايزة collides with nothing on main, so no homonyms entry is required. QUEUE-LINE DISCLOSURE: queue line 751 is a collective line, 'Gaza Humanitarian Photojournalists (e.g. Motaz Azaiza)'; per the coordinator's brief it is built as the named exemplar's individual record only — no group record was invented, and the coordinator should record the line that way. The queue's year (1999, living) is confirmed to the day. Relations written: none — Deir al-Balah has no place entity. Living-person care: only well-sourced public facts are recorded; his family's losses in October 2023 are carried in the prose only in the terms his own biographies use.",
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