This is a compilation video documentary available on the Al Jazeera web pages.

“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 video runs for just on eighty minutes. A number of the commentators speak in English: and clips on the video are in both Arabic and Hebrew [Yiddish] with English sub-titles. The images are disturbing but readers who follow the coverage of Al Jazeera on the genocide will be familiar with this. The coverage runs from the Hamas attack in October 2023 and then the opening of the Zionist assault on the people of Gaza through the following year. The documentary uses independent sources of information including analysts of military and political issues and expert on International Humanitarian Law. One source is the online +972 magazine which presents investigations by independent critical journalists in Israel. The Jewish Voice for Labour has a profile of the documentary by Al Jazeera staff.

Both the two latter online platforms have regular articles and material on the ongoing genocide since the period covered by the documentary; this includes the current policy by the Zionist regime of using starvation of a civilian population as a weapon of war. The whole war and the current genocide have been poorly covered by the British mainstream media. This reflects the values of the British establishment which are obviously Eurocentric. Despite some academics using the dubious concept of ‘post-colonial’ the European and North American states in the axis of NATO imperialists  still suffer from the colonialist values embedded in these societies. A number of them, including both Britain and the USA, still occupy the lands of oppressed peoples.

The documentary leaves a viewer wondering when, if ever, the so-called International Community will take steps to apply the agreed laws applying to war and to humanitarian care. At least people of conscience are still demonstrating and agitating here and elsewhere against these war crimes and in support of the Palestinians struggle for freedom and independence