Video: Investigating war crimes in Gaza
'The First Live-Streamed Genocide': Al Jazeera Documentary Exposes Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
A new viral documentary from Al Jazeera titled "Investigating War Crimes in Gaza" exposes Israeli war crimes in the strip drawing heavily off footage released by Israeli soldiers themselves.
The film has already racked up over 1 million views on YouTube and another 2.3 million on X since its release on Oct 3.
Video: Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations (alternate links: YouTube, BitChute)
This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.
The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.
The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments - in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.
"The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn't know," says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.This is "the first livestream genocide in history ... If people are ignorant they are wilfully ignorant," she says.
"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" -- Kevin Alfred Strom, All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us, Aug 14, 1993 (source)
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial." -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon quoted from BBC News Online, Clashes mar Mid-East inquiry, Mar. 25, 2001 (source)
"I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief. We don't belong to the same army, or to the same state. ... We hardly belong to the same human race." -- Uri Avnery in Eyeless in Gaza: On Israeli Troops Cheering Over Shooting an Unarmed Palestinian, Apr. 16, 2018 (source)