Israeli Historian Produces Massive Database of Zionist War Crimes in Gaza

Date: 06 December 2024 - 23:50

News ID: ۱۳۴۳۳۸

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – An internationally recognized Israeli historian has concluded that the occupying regime is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting a litany of war crimes committed since the regime’s invasion began last year.
Lee Mordechai, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has also held a fellowship at Princeton University in the U.S., has published a report titled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War” which, in its English translation, is 124 pages long and contains over 1,400 footnotes.
Using eyewitness reports, video footage, articles, photographs, eyewitness evidence and over investigatory material, much of it recorded by Zionist troops, the historian has produced what Haaretz calls “the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza”.
Some of the most shocking incidents documented by Mordechai include a Palestinian woman with a child being shot while waving a white flag, starving girls being crushed to death while queuing for bread, a handcuffed 62-year-old Palestinian man getting run over by an Israeli tank and an air strike targeting people trying to help a wounded boy.
The database includes thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documenting the atrocities Zionist troops are committing in Gaza, where over 44,500 Palestinians have been killed during the war.
Mordechai also includes a section on “The media, propaganda and the war”, noting that the current war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse in Israel as well as in the West – in countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany”.
Haaretz led its report on Mordechai’s document by drawing attention to footnote 379, which refers to a video clip showing a large dog eating the corpse of a Palestinian.
“Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone - gone in both senses,” says the Zionist trooper who filmed the dog eating the dead body. A few seconds later, the soldier pans away from the corpse to the scene around him. “But what a gorgeous view, a gorgeous sunset. A red sun is setting over the Gaza Strip,” he says.
Mordechai’s compendium details the killing of children by Zionist troops, the murder of entire families, the starvation and shooting of civilians, tanks running over prisoners and corpses, and much more.
Footnote 354 of the document shows footage of Palestinians being shot by Zionist troops while raising a white flag. The video footage, first published by Middle East Eye, shows many people waving white flags while apparently evacuating their homes. A woman with a small child is shot dead by an Israeli sniper, with the child managing to escape.
The historian first published the document in January and has been publishing updated versions of it ever since.
“I felt that I could not continue to live in my own bubble, that it was a matter of life and death, and what was happening was too big and contradicted the values I grew up with here,” he told Haaretz.
In his report, Mordechai confirms the veracity of the fatality figures published by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. According to the historian, claims that these numbers are exaggerated are groundless, and even the Zionist regime treats the health ministry’s data as accurate.
Of the tens of thousands of people killed in the war, Mordechai includes in the document the death of four premature babies after Zionist troops decided to evacuate the hospital they were in. A nurse looking after five babies was forced to choose the strongest one, which was allowed to survive.
Other footage compiled by the historian – and again often filmed by Zionist troops themselves – shows a soldier forcing bound and blindfolded prisoners to send regards to his family and to say they want to be his slaves.
Zionist troops are photographed holding stacks of money they plundered from Palestinian homes in Gaza and an Israeli army bulldozer is seen destroying a large pile of food packages from a humanitarian aid agency.
In another clip, an Israeli soldier sings, “Next year we’ll burn the school,” while a Gazan school is engulfed in flames in the background. Numerous video clips documented by Mordechai show Zionist troops modeling women’s underwear they have looted.