The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.
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Israeli soldiers have posted videos on Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube showcasing their activities in Gaza, using their own names, often with details of when and where the incidents depicted have taken place. But what may have been intended as bravado has become a damning digital dossier.
The behaviour displayed in the photos and videos ranges from crass jokes and soldiers rifling through women’s underwear drawers to what appears to be the killings of unarmed civilians.
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Legal experts said these videos provide an unprecedented level of real-time documentation. Unlike past conflicts in which war crimes were investigated after the fact, here, the perpetrators are providing contemporaneous evidence of their own actions.
Footage clearly documents violations of international law, such as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, looting, targeting of civilians and inhumane war tactics.
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The I-Unit’s findings paint a harrowing picture: homes and entire neighbourhoods demolished without military necessity, Palestinian detainees stripped and tortured, civilians used as human shields, and unarmed individuals, including children, gunned down. These incidents are now catalogued and categorised by Al Jazeera under potential war crimes.
You can watch the entire Al Jazeera documentary here.