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[Applause] [Music] The West cannot hide. They cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn't [Music] know. We live in an era of technology, and this has been described as the first live-streamed genocide in history, and I believe that to be true. They are conducting a genocide now with glee. They're setting their atrocities to music and putting them on catchy reels on Tik [Music] Tok. Ordinary Israelis see what their military is doing and celebrate [Applause] it. It's not just French elements who see this and think it's a good thing. When a nation protects its home, it fights, and we will fight until we'll break their backbone. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true. It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. [Music] [Music] Gaza becomes a strip in 1948 with the creation of the state of Israel. Three-quarters of a million people are driven from their homes in what Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe. Close to a third of refugees end up in Gaza. In 1967, Gaza and the West Bank are occupied by the [Music] Israelis. After the Israelis withdraw settlements from Gaza in 2005, Hamas wins elections throughout the occupied territories. It advocates resistance to Israeli occupation and is prescribed as a terrorist organization in the West. When it takes control of Gaza in 2007, Israel imposes a blockade. In the years that follow, it carries out a number of attacks on Gaza, citing security requirements. Thousands of Palestinians are [Music] killed. 1,200 Hamas fighters storm through the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. The main goal was to bring the Palestinian cause on the table and to obligate all the politicians in the region and outside the region that no one can bypass the Palestinian, no one can overcome the Palestinian cause, and without solving this, no one can enjoy security or stability. More than 1,000 Israelis are killed. [Music] [Music] More than 250 hostages are taken. The impact of October 7th is immense. It's a society in complete trauma. We could never in our worst nightmare think that October 7th would happen. The aura of Israeli invincibility disappeared on the 7th of October last year. Israel has survived because neighbors have always believed that Israel was omnipotent, a country that cannot be defeated militarily. And then, over a couple of hours, all of this fell apart. Immediately became clear to most Israelis, they're not secure, and the enemies around it are not deterred. Mrs. War, Israel is desperately now trying to restore the strategic posture of deterrence to make themselves feel safe. And I think from the beginning, it was obvious that in order to restore deterrence, it will respond disproportionately. But we can't escape that there was a strong element of avenging and revenging. This investigation assembles evidence of war crimes committed during the year-long Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip and of complicity in those crimes. The evidence includes the voices of those who ordered the assault, those who supported it, those who enabled it. The United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have their back. Those who enjoined it, attacked by the hospital, and above all, those who inflicted [Music] it. Al Jazeera's investigative unit has compiled a database of over 2 and a half thousand social media accounts containing photos and videos placed online by Israeli [Music] soldiers. It is a treasure trove which you very seldom come across. So to have that is something which I think prosecutors will be licking their lips at. [Music] Do you know anything about that? What can you report at this [Applause] stage? All right, Yumna, please take cover. We knew that this or the retaliation is going to be so much bigger than for this. This is a vile attack on on Palestine Tower, right in the middle of Gaza's City. Yumna, take a moment to breathe. But we didn't expect it. Take a moment to breathe. In no means to be what it has turned out to be. The fact that there are Israeli captives in the strip, wouldn't that be a red line for Israel that it would be afraid for its captives? Even if Israel wanted to cross these red lines, we thought for sure that the world would stand and say no. You wake up every morning thinking that this would be actually your last day. You know, you might be next. There have been journalists and human rights workers who have been directly killed during the previous attacks, but this war, it was more like systematic attacks, systematic targeting of civilians, of um journalists, of human rights [Music] workers. So it's been a struggle since the beginning of this war, realizing that what you're doing is actually not only risking your own life, but your, but the life of your family, the lives of those taking shelter with you. Uh, everyone who, uh, you could be around can [Music] [Music] So many times when I went after a bombing that just happened, I literally felt like I was standing over a mass grave, but not just a grave of people who are dead, but people who are alive and they're stuck there. You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as America exists, you will never ever have to. We will will always be there by your side. Israel orders the 1.1 million residents of Northern Gaza to evacuate to the south of the Gaza River Valley. Many are unable or unwilling. Less than three weeks after October 7th, 16% of the buildings in Northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. The official death toll stands as 7,028. [Music] An Israeli magazine later reveals artificial intelligence is being used to identify targets. The Israeli Army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination. 972 interviewed acting members of the military. The reason that AI was being used, basically, according to those Israeli sources, is that they wanted a tempo of attacks that was faster than could be humanly sustained. How does the AI decide who is killable? It will look at everything that can be scraped about you from surveillance, from spying, from your social media profile, from who your phone is near when it's when you're walking around, who you're meeting, and they'll give you a number. And if your number out of a 100 is above a certain threshold, then you can be attacked and [Music] killed. Where are you attacked and killed? Well, there's another AI called "Where's Daddy?" And according to this reporting in 972, again, based on what Israeli military officials told these journalists, it's easier to kill somebody when they're home than it is when they're out in the street. So this AI will monitor the location of your cell phone, your smartphone, and when it arrives at the location that's been determined to be your residence, then there will be a ping to the guy who can target your house and bring it [Music] down. I guess whoever came up with this name "Where's Daddy?" thought that many of them would be fathers, and that's why it's called "Where's Daddy?" When they, when they reach their homes, Daddy's home, and then the entire house and everybody in it could be blown [Music] [Music] up. For [Music] [Music] Hello, I'm Nick Clark. This is the News Live from Doha. Our colleague from Al Jazeera Arabic has just learned that his wife and other members of his family have been killed in an airstrike. The entire team here in Doha is offering our sincere condolences. The family of Wael Dahdouh, Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief, is killed in a strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, supposedly part of the safe zone south of the Gaza River [Music] Valley. The family had evacuated from the north of the [Music] strip. The attack resulted in the killing of Wael's wife, his daughter Sham, his son Mahmoud, his grandson Adam, and the injury of other family members. For him to be targeted, for his family to be targeted, it's very devastating for us as [Music] journalists. For us, it felt like that red line being crossed. At the end of October, Yumna El-Khatib's own family is still in Gaza City in the north of the strip. It was less than a week after the killing of Wael's family. A call comes from a private number on my husband's mobile phone. The officer identifies himself as the IDF officer, and he was like, "We know who you are. Take your family and leave your home, otherwise your lives are in danger." So my husband was like, "So if you know who I am, then you know that the bombardments around my home are nonstop. How do you expect me to take my kids and leave my home in such a time and risk their lives?" And he was like, "This is your problem. You need to figure it out." And I can't get over my 12-year-old, Ellen, when this happened. She screamed at me. She was like, "They're going to kill us because of you. They're going to kill us because of [Music] you." The destruction in Gaza sparks a TikTok craze in Israel. Civilians dress up as caricatures of Palestinians and mime to an Israeli song called "This Was My Home." [Music] An influencer suggests Palestinians are faking their injuries. Another influencer taunts Palestinians for the loss of water and electricity. [Music] These videos are shared many thousands of [Music] times. After three weeks of bombardment, Israeli ground troops enter Northern Gaza. Everyone in the building was screaming. Everyone. It was like the kids are screaming. We're hugging each other. We're under the kitchen bar. We're terrified. And then they decided to speak to us in their mics and they said that we have five minutes to leave the building. So we grabbed our children and we got into our cars and we left. There's a lot of gunfire ongoing now, exchange of gunfire, bullets. So we've just started heading out. Just nothing safe at all. Nothing at all feels safe. [Music] Thousands of other families are trying to flee Gaza City at the same time, moving to the south. You had to do it on foot. No cars were allowed to drive in in that area. 23-year-old freelance journalist Muhammad Al-Haj is already narrowly escaped death a number of times. He too is fleeing [Music] south. [Music] For we were asked to walk holding a white flag in one hand, raising the ID on the other hand. Everyone, including the children, they would stop people while they're walking, then they say, "This person wearing this color shirt, get out of the line," and then they would make them strip completely to their underwear in front of [Music] everyone. On the final stretch out of Gaza City, thousands wait to enter what the Israelis call a humanitarian [Music] corridor, supposedly a safe route to the south. [Music] Those who were killed, everything was left on the ground for the people who were crossing to see. I made my children promise me that they would not look at the ground at all, not once. I just instructed them to look straight. Do not look at the ground. Do not look [Music] down. As Palestinians flee, Israeli soldiers enter the homes they have left behind. "I will burn their city to the ground, yeah, every rat hole that they hide in, and I will drop down enough explosives to scare God." Soldiers post thousands of photos and videos on social media. The Eye Unit has identified many of them. [Applause] These videos don't show a professional army. They show an army, but at times appears to almost completely lack any, any self-discipline to a point where one thinks it's not just personal lack of discipline, it's an institutional lack of [Music] discipline. Under international law, you're not allowed to destroy ordinary civilian property. Um, there doesn't appear to be any military [Music] objectives. It's something of a scorched-earth policy where everything is destroyed, and it makes it very difficult to reconstruct civilian life thereafter. Soldiers loot and [Music] pillage. The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to look at precisely, uh, these allegations where civilian property has been targeted and where civilian property is being looted. I see there are some identities given here. So depending on on that evidence, charges could be brought. Many Israeli soldiers are dual nationals. So I'm going through these terrorist houses looking for guns and explosives. Like we find money at every single house inside of Gaza. This is what I say, every single, unbelievable, two or three Jews stuffed with the most, uh, exotic laundry that you can imagine, just pulled out of it. Part, every single house stuffed to the brim. Look at that, unbelievable. He naughty, naughty gin. There seems to be this strange obsession amongst many Israeli soldiers for women's underwear. I'm not sure if it's intended to titillate or humiliate. [Music] Sharing these kind of images per se is not a crime, but it could be used as relevant evidence to show the mindset of the soldiers concerned and the discipline or lack thereof of those [Music] soldiers. And it's strange, these videos seem apparently to be quite popular inside Israel. This is a bit, you know, they're being used on dating [Music] sites. Lots of people say Israeli forces shouldn't be allowed to take cameras and phones into combat. I'm glad that they are allowed to because it allows the world to witness what's [Music] happening. The things that are really shocking to me, just a repeated posting of videos of detained humiliation, naked Palestinian detainees with headbands and zip ties on their arms being paraded around, insulted, mistreated. In many cases, these are really blatant violations of international law, and yet they keep being posted by the perpetrators. It's really astonishing. Some of these videos horrified me. This footage breaks every norm of the treatment of detainees or the treatment of prisoners of war. It breaks every accepted standard practice and norm. [Music] [Laughter] Many Palestinian detainees say they are abused. For [Music] a French-Israeli soldier says a detainee has been tortured. Torture is one of the most serious international crimes. Very often, though, it's difficult to get evidence. This kind of material where you have persons on camera admitting that they have participated in torture would be very useful to any investigator or a prosecutor. Female detainees are also abused. The soldiers remove Hadil D's headscarf. She's the only woman in a truck full of men. A Star of David is carved into a detainee's bag. Persons are being blindfolded, hooded, beaten, humiliated. The law prohibits persons from being treated in a manner that doesn't comply with normal human standards. So they have to be treated humanely, and what we're seeing here is the exact antithesis of that. The destruction of buildings is regularly featured, often set to music. [Music] You see huge blocks getting blown up, universities getting blown [Music] up. It's just extraordinary. This is willful destruction. The fact that they've been able to to rig these buildings up with explosives shows very clearly that there's no current threat for most buildings. There's no justification for destroying a structure if the enemy isn't in [Music] it. I asked an IDF officer in late 2023 why they were blowing up and destroying buildings, especially civilian infrastructure across Gaza, that clearly has no military value and has no link to active fighting. And he said, basically, that it's an act of punishment. By destroying every sort of infrastructure, any link, any reference to Hamas, anything that Hamas has touched will be destroyed. By the 28th of December, 69% of the buildings in Northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and 27% in southern Gaza. At least 2,110 have been killed. On that day, Israeli troops occupied Khuza'a, a town of 13,000 people, which lies just across the fence from the Israeli kibbutz near Kissufim, which was attacked on October 7th. [Music] [Applause] At the end of the operation in Khuza'a, soldiers post before-and-after shots. What we're seeing here is the complete decimation of a village. The soldiers give very detailed reasons why they impaired upon this. None of them are for military purposes. [Applause] The justification that is given is one of revenge, and under international humanitarian law, it is strictly prohibited to use reprisals against the civilian population of your enemy. The revenge rhetoric that we've heard from some Israeli soldiers, it's disturbing. The large-scale, unnecessary destruction of civilian property, it's prohibited in the Geneva Conventions. It's prohibited under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. You can't go around wantonly, unnecessarily destroying civilian property. It's banned, and if you do enough of it, it's a war crime. The unit that destroys Khuza'a is Israel's 8219 Combat Engineering Battalion, which has already destroyed hundreds of buildings in Gaza [Music] City. Its commander is Lieutenant Colonel Meir Devani. The International Criminal Court will look for those who are higher up the chain of command, and evidence coming directly from commanders about the orders that they gave and the way in which they command and control their troops would be vital evidence. Devani addresses the unit at the end of the operation. His comments are recorded in a war diary posted on Facebook by one of his troops. He said, "We have stopped counting the number of buildings the battalion blew up. There is no precedent for this in the whole history of the Israeli Army. We have become addicted to explosions." By the end of January, close to 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip has been displaced at least once from their homes. There is this kind of dark matter of pain. People live in a kind of heightened fight-or-flight mode that just, that never subsides. They are always on alert. There's always this sort of baseline [Music] terror. A third of the dead are [Music] children. Because I run a children's organization, I was very interested in speaking with them and understanding their needs and understanding what they're going through. So I interviewed a lot of kids. Some of them told me that they just want to die, but they don't want to, they want to die in one piece. They're scared of being shredded. [Music] [Music] [Music] Israeli ground forces close in on the Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan [Music] [Music] Yunis. Among those taking refuge there is journalist Muhammad Al-Haj. His footage will provide a unique record of the siege and assault on Gaza's second-largest hospital. Here, I'm trying, I'm trying to take a video here. He shot me in my bed, and because my vest, I am still alive. And here you can see the the sniper, and here is the vest. Like, I I can't understand why he shot me. [Music] A sniper kills a child at the hospital gates. It is too dangerous to collect his body. Muhammad films the forced evacuation of displaced people from the UN school opposite the hospital. That evening, Muhammad is almost killed again. I joke here with my friend Ibrahim, his assistant camera, and suddenly the shot, maybe sniper or quadcopter, and my friend Ibrahim, he's shot in his legs by Israeli soldiers. And I am running away to emergency like I am throwing myself like so like so fast, but he can't, and he's [Music] shot. Here, he is stuck in this, this tent, and he's, he's so dangerous here. And the doctor, he tells him what he can do to stay alive because we can't get him. We can't take him. Here is Dr. Hero Amir. Here she gives me her t-shirt to save, and I take this t-shirt now. And here some nurses saying, "No, don't go. It's so dangerous." They shout here. She's saying, "No, be silent, please. Don't make me stress." And here she's saying, "Silent," and she's really angry. She needs help. She's a hero. And here she's really going, and she said, "Abraham's life, she saved it." She's saying here, "He's alive. He's alive. Help me, help me." And the doctor really going, going, and help her. And I'm taking this video, and I can't believe this. This is my friend. He's beside me. He's [Music] shot, and I can't help him. But this here woman, she helps him. Then the women is like, really, heal. Palestinian women is like the best women in all the war. Three days later, a tank orders the evacuation of the hospital, referring to those inside as "animals." And he's saying, "Go out, animals, dogs." He's like, he's speaking to people like animals, dogs. Go out. The Israelis send a Palestinian detainee to tell the people to leave. His name is Jamal Abu Al-Ola. His mother is inside the [Music] hospital. [Music] For what we appear to be seeing here is a civilian being used to be a messenger, used as a military asset. That's in many ways the definition of using persons as a human shield, to shield what you're trying to do as the army by putting people in harm's way. That's prohibited under international law. [Music] [Music] Shortly afterwards, Jamal returns. Here we can see in this video here, he's trying saying, "Go out." But people are worried because it's no safe. He's a liar. He's a big liar, massive liar. Jamal's mother is among a small group of people who follow Jamal. For speech. For speech. Foreign [Music] Foreign for Fore speech. The following day, the displaced people finally leave the hospital, led by the hospital's [Music] [Music] director. The long journey south lasts into the night. [Music] Among them is Muhammad's injured friend, Ibrahim. [Music] Muhammad carries Ibrahim for the last part of the journey. Behind them, the remaining patients and medical staff at the Nasser Hospital come under attack. We are attacked by [Music] [Music] the following day, the last journalists and doctors to leave are hit by a drone. A female doctor is badly injured. [Music] Allah. The Nasser Hospital will remain closed for five months. Each of Gaza's 36 hospitals has been attacked, with 19 closed down altogether. Medical equipment has been deliberately [Music] destroyed. By February 15th, 72% of the buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and 46% of those in southern Gaza. The official death toll stands at 28,6 [Music] 63. The assault on Gaza is facilitated by Western powers. 69% of Israel's arms imports come from the US, 30% from Germany. Behind the scenes, another country plays a key role. "I'm proud to stand here with you in Israel's darkest hour as your friend. We will stand with you in solidarity. We will stand with your people, and we also want you to win. Thank you." At on Cyprus, the UK maintains a large Air Force Base less than 400 kilometers from Gaza. A British investigative journalist looks at the role RAF Akrotiri is playing. So in December, the UK government announced that they were going to start doing surveillance flights over Gaza for hostage rescue, they said. But they didn't say where they were going to go from. They didn't say how many they were going to be, or what they were going to collect, or how long they were in the air for. So I started looking at flight tracker websites. On the 3rd of December, this plane goes here, you can see. So it flies from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus, and then over the sea, turns off its transponder, so you can't see where it's going. And there were dozens of them straight away. And these are six-hour flights. They're in the air for six hours. The planes are RC-135 Shadow planes. Their capabilities include target acquisition for military strikes, and the information the British were getting, they were sharing with the Israelis. Now, they said it was all to do with hostage rescue, but even at that point, there was only two British hostages in Gaza. So it also doesn't explain there was up to 10 hours of footage by March that they would have collected over Gaza. Matt Carr's reporting prompts demonstrations in Cyprus. "Get out of Cyprus, get out with Israel." Under investigation by the International Court of Justice for genocide, the assistance given by the UK and other Western powers has legal implications. If you start acting in a conflict to a level that the people on the ground who are doing the fighting are using your information actively as they fight, you can't just say the Israelis are doing things and we, we want them to behave differently. If they're killing too many civilians, but we're not really involved, actually, you may be a party to the conflict yourself. If you continue to know and continue to supply weapons and targeting information, if you're supplying targeting information despite knowing what the result is, and the result is a gross human rights violation, then you also get to complicity. So, you know, the deniability that you're deeply involved in what's going on in Gaza begins to evaporate. Western politicians blame Hamas for the high death toll. They use Palestinian civilians as human shields. Hamas offers nothing but terror and bloodshed with no regard to who pays the price. They unleash terror, then hide among them. Women and children used as human shields. This claim goes entirely unchallenged in the West, but there is no evidence to support it. The claim is basically that armed groups are operating in populated areas in Gaza, and that is basically what is meant in many cases when somebody says Hamas is using human shields. If your territory is as small as the Gaza Strip, it's near impossible to locate your military bases far away from civilian infrastructure and civilian areas. We don't have evidence that Palestinian armed groups are, you know, hiding right next to civilians and not allowing the civilians to leave. Right. An element of human shielding is that you either don't tell them that you're right there, or they know you're there, but you don't allow them to leave. If you're the guy with the gun, we conducted several interviews, dozens of interviews with civilians and with people, Palestinians in areas that were designated as combat zones, but we have not documented at least one case of Palestinian armed members using civilians as human shields. [Applause] I have never, not once, seen any Hamas operatives in any of the hospitals that I have reported from, not Al-Shifa Hospital, not the European Hospital, not Nasser Hospital, not Al-Ahli Hospital. There are dozens of journalists reporting from these hospitals, and not one journalist is ready to put their lives in danger in being in a place where they, they can see Hamas members or operatives. There has to be a purpose in using a civilian as a human shield. The party that uses civilians as human shields needs to understand that the other party would be concerned for the safety of this civilian. But in the case of Gaza, civilians here have been one of the main targets of the Israeli Army since the beginning of the attack. So there wouldn't be a purpose in using a civilian as a human shield because the civilian himself is a target. Israel has regularly been condemned for using human shields by the UN and numerous international and Israeli human rights organizations. There used to be something that was known as the neighbor procedure. It was called this by, by, uh, by the military, where you would go into a house, you'd get somebody from the house, and you'd get them to walk in front of you and take them to the next-door neighbor's house, and then knock on the door and open it up. And the idea would be that you're behind them with the gun, so if there's a guy inside the house with a gun, they're not going to shoot at their own neighbor, and then you can kill them. "I want to ask you, are these men being detained?" "Yes." "You can't, you can't use them as human shields. This is a, a war crime, you know that, right?" "Not human." "They're standing in front of your Jeep. That's not a human [Music] shield." Mosque. Israeli soldiers use a seven-year-old child when confronted by stonethrowing. Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence the Israelis are using human shields in this conflict as well. [Music] This description fits with evidence obtained by Al Jazeera. A civilian is ordered to inspect empty buildings while monitored by two drones. [Music] In this case, two civilians are fitted with cameras and are ordered to inspect buildings in case of booby traps or ambushes. [Music] Footage from the occupied West Bank supports this [Music] account. This photograph is taken by an Israeli soldier in Gaza City. The Eye Unit has spoken to six individuals who say they were used as human shields since the beginning of this round of invasion. We have documented dozens of cases where civilians were actually used, uh, as human shields by the Israeli Army, forcing them to enter combat zones or enter places or enter buildings that they think are, for example, uh, booby-trapped or, uh, where they think that there might be armed members of Palestinian factions inside, uh, one area or another. And this is being used on a daily basis. Where you see it cropping up on a continuous, widespread basis, then investigators and prosecutors will look high up to see if that is being countenanced, if it's either coming down as a direct direction from those above, or they're turning a blind eye. And in both of those cases, it can incur command responsibility for those in the chain of command. After being held within Gaza for a few days, many detainees are transferred to [Music] Israel. By mid-February, more than 8,000 Palestinians are being held in detention centers. Israel's Channel 13 makes no attempt to conceal their conditions. The Gazans claim these prisoners are all Nukhba, the elite unit of Hamas's Qassam Brigades. [Music] [Music] F Baka is held at the Sde Teiman Detention Center in southern Israel. [Music] Deis. [Music] [Music] For for for [Music] [Music] [Music] Those who are captured in armed conflict, whether they are civilians or fighters, have to be treated humanely. They certainly cannot be beaten and tortured and raped. That's absolutely fundamental in humanitarian law. Nine soldiers are later arrested at the Sde Teiman detention center after a detainee is admitted to hospital. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Right-wing demonstrators stormed the detention center in protest at the arrest of the [Applause] soldiers. Shortly afterwards, Israeli television shows an alleged rape taking place behind a row of riot shields. According to Israeli press reports, the victim suffers a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage, and broken ribs. Many emerge from detention traumatized. [Music] [Music] [Music] An aid convoy is hit three times. Six foreign aid workers are killed along with their Palestinian driver. With the Israelis severely restricting supplies of aid to the strip, hundreds of thousands face starvation. The hunger is real. It's actually felt by everybody. You see them in the hospitals when the children just collapse and they come in and they're skeletal. All of the doctors in our team would sort of kind of have these informal debriefs, and every day, malnutrition, malnutrition, malnutrition. The April 1st missile strike is not the only attack on an aid [Music] convoy. It was not an isolated incident. We, Human Rights Watch, uh, documented another seven cases where very specifically humanitarian and aid workers were attacked after having given the Israeli military their precise coordinates and detailed information about their activities and their movements. In some cases, it looks like the precise coordinates that aid groups gave to the Israeli military to deconflict and keep themselves safe were then hit precisely by Israeli attacks. So our assessment is very clearly that the Israeli authorities are using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. It's a double war crime. You have collective punishment of the civilian population, and you specifically have the use of starvation as a weapon of [Music] war. By June 27th, 72% of buildings in Northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, and 51% in southern Gaza. The death toll stands at 37,76131. [Music] [Music] This video documents the activities of the 202nd Paratroopers [Music] Battalion. I'm just going to hold this here. I'm going to play this back again. This is extraordinary. The fact that he's put this onto video, he's released this on YouTube. To me, this is kind of quite extraordinary, the degree of impunity. The video shows two other instances where unarmed men are shot by [Music] snipers. Now, of course, I don't know the context of what happened before. I don't know what happened two minutes before that. They may have been involved in contacting and shooting at Israeli forces. They may have been legitimate targets, but it sure doesn't look like it to [Laughter] me. Just because a civilian is walking in an area where combat is going on does not make them fair game. If they get involved in hostilities at a particular moment, yes, they lose their civilian status, they can be targeted, but then you have to show on the evidence that they are presenting a threat to you. It's potentially a matter that the International Criminal Court would want to look at. Large numbers of Palestinians have been killed by snipers, including women and [Music] children. On July 25th, 45 American physicians, surgeons, and nurses who have volunteered in Gaza since October 7th write to President Biden. They state, "Every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and [Music] chest." Since October 7th, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have released over 300 combat videos. The IDF is fighting ghosts. They're fighting against targets that appear and disappear quite quickly, and the tunnel system in itself has made this an urban combat scenario which is very unique in human military history. There's never been a scenario such as this where you have two layers of a battlefield. We usually talk about controlling the ground. We never had to really talk about controlling the underground. [Music] When it comes to tunnels, you are talking about around 500 to 600 kilometers underground in different depths, 20 meters, 30 meters, 40 meters. With the tunnels, we were able to move underground to plan and to attack the enemy, and he has lost the ability to control the field. [Music] The idea that Hamas is near elimination is nonsensical. Hamas are still out there. They've not yet been decisively defeated. They are nowhere near decisively defeated, in my view. Deterrence has not been restored. The beginning of the war, it was about destroying Hamas, bringing the hostages home. Like right now, the hostages are still, you know, 120 hostages are in Hamas is still fighting. So the problem was from the beginning, setting an objective that is not achievable. The official Israeli death toll from the fighting in Gaza is 346. In August, Israel's Defense Ministry said more than 10,000 soldiers have registered as wounded, 35% of them suffering mental trauma. The official Palestinian death toll stands at more than 41,000. Almost 100,000 have been [Music] injured. The Palestinian death toll does not include thousands still buried under the rubble and those who have died from hunger and lack of access to medication and healthcare. It's possible the final toll for dead and injured in the Gaza Strip will be more than 10% of the total population. [Music] The Americans and Germans continue to provide weaponry. The new Labour government in the UK continues to operate surveillance [Music] flights, and Israeli soldiers continue to pose for photos. Palestinians are aware that they have been abandoned, that the world that speaks of human rights and international law was lying, that those concepts are meant for, uh, for white people or for Westerners, that accountability is not meant to hold their oppressors to account, that they have been, um, really kind of discarded like rubbish. [Music] [Music] For [Music] for spe foreign spee foreign spee z z International law has been trashed by the actions of the Israeli military, by the actions of the parties to this conflict, but also by the actions of their allies, which look at what's going on and continue to pour gasoline on the flames. [Music] The West has spent decades creating this rules-based order, and it's finally laid, been laid bare as a big sham, as a big, as just a way to further Western interests. This is the jungle. Is this the new order where it's just out in the open that those with power can do whatever they want? [Music] E for [Applause]