[News] Investigation reveals Israeli troops committing first ever 'live streamed genocide'

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Investigation reveals Israeli troops committing first ever 'live
streamed genocide'

The new documentary compiles footage of war crimes committed and posted
online by Israeli soldiers in Gaza

News Desk <https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9>

OCT 4, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/investigation-reveals-israeli-troops-committing-first-ever-live-streamed-genocide
Palestinian victims of Israel's military campaign in Gaza (Photo credit:
Euro Med Human Rights)

*Al Jazeera* has released a new documentary, available
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A> on YouTube, detailing Israeli
war crimes and human rights violations in Gaza, based on videos filmed and
posted on social media by soldiers themselves.

“We live in an era of technology, and this has been described as the first
livestreamed genocide in history,” Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa told *Al
Jazeera’s* investigative unit (I-Unit).

Since the start of Israel’s extermination campaign in Gaza last October,
Israeli soldiers have posted thousands of videos and photos on Instagram,
Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.

Rodney Dixon, an international law expert featured in the film, says the
videos are “a treasure trove which you very seldom come across … something
which I think prosecutors will be licking their lips at.”

The film also includes information collected by *Al Jazeera *journalists
working on the ground in Gaza, as well as Israeli military drone footage.
It is unclear how *Al Jazeera* obtained the drone footage.

The videos show evidence of the Israeli army’s murder of unarmed civilians,
wanton destruction, torture of detainees, and use of human shields in Gaza.

Many videos showed Israeli soldiers using explosives to demolish
residential buildings and homes.

“The fact that they’ve been able to rig these buildings up with explosives
shows very clearly that there’s no current threat from those buildings,”
Charlie Herbert, a retired major general in the British Army and researcher
for the project, told *Al Jazeera*.

In one video, a French-Israeli soldier films a detainee being pulled from
the back of a truck and says, “Look, I’m going to show you his back. You’re
going to laugh at this. He was tortured.”

“They took my son, the eldest, who had just been married,” a Palestinian
man, Abu Amer, explained to *Al Jazeera*. “He was tortured. I could hear
his screams as they were suffocating him and beating him in the adjacent
room. There was nothing we could do with the rifles pointed at our heads.
We could not make a move.”

A Palestinian from Gaza, Fadi Bakr, told *Al Jazeera* he was forced to lie
on a decomposing corpse by a soldier who threatened to execute him.

Bakr was later sent to the notorious Sde Teiman detention center in
southern Israel, where he saw guards using a dog to rape a young male
inmate.

Footage gathered by *Al Jazeera Arabic* showed Israeli soldiers forcing a
detainee to inspect empty buildings while being monitored by a drone.

Separate footage shows bloodied detainees being fitted with cameras so they
can enter potentially booby-trapped buildings before Israeli soldiers.

The *Al Jazeera* investigation also showed a video placed online by a
soldier called Shalom Gilbert, a member of the 202 Paratroopers Battalion.
The video shows three unarmed men being killed by snipers.

Since 7 October, Israel’s military campaign to destroy Gaza and ethnically
cleanse its 2.3 million inhabitants has killed over 41,700 people, the
majority women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

In July, researchers published
<https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext>
an article discussing the possible death toll in Gaza, in which they
estimated at least 186,000 deaths could be attributable to the current
conflict in Gaza.
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