“Within all the destruction, you can still find the beauty,” combat photographer Staff Sgt Y. told JNS at the “Moments that Remain” exhibition at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in north Tel Aviv.

Combat photographers accompany frontline units in Gaza, Lebanon and Judea and Samaria, documenting their operations to support the IDF Spokesperson Unit’s goals of establishing legitimacy, strengthening public trust in the army and deterring the enemy.

“Basically, my job is to bring the truth from the battlefield. We get to show how it really is in the field,” he said.

The “Moments that Remain” exhibition, organized by the IDF in partnership with Mimi Ziv—whose son Sgt. Lior Ziv, 19, a photographer for the IDF Spokesman’s Unit from Holon, was killed in action during an operation to destroy a Hamas sm

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