Israel's cultural annihilation of Gaza | The Listening Post 

The greatest scandal is that the US and Europe allow this to happen. How sad and shameful this is!

Shame on Israel

Humanity has sold their souls when the murderers are portrayed as victims and the murdered are the condemned enemies 😮

They are pure evil 😢

MAY THE WICKED BE BROUGHT TO RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT & JUSTICE

how shameful of the world to be silent

The world must never forget the responsibles and the accomplices of such unforgiving actions.

People who are native to the land, who love the land, don't treat it the way Israelis have

I'm a black American this is ashame this is wicked please world come together please stop them

"I don't remember one occupation in which the occupier presented himself as the victim, “we are the victims, we are forced to kill their children, poor us.” -Israeli journalist Gideon Levy

Pray for Palestine free Palestine

Thanks for staying true to humanity al Jazeera. Best news Channel on the planet

The action of Aaron Bushnell lets you imagine what the feeling of the people sharing the same concern than him.

This is so sad. So unthinkable. My heart is very sore for Gaza. Liberation for Palestine.

You are not alone.we are watching Zionist,

The culture and history of Palestine 🇵🇸 will never die its in the memory in a poem ,a song,a story,oral Tradition , and the lives of their people !!

Sorry to see that innocent people are being massacred and the world is sleeping. Dependance on others, particularly for safety and security, is a blunder. It's unfortunate that the second largest community in the world have been failing to catch up with the rest of the world. Let's hope peace prevails everywhere.

A victory over Zionism is a victory for humanity.

Free Free Palestine 🙏🙏🙏

Exactly what the English did during the highland clearances. Thank you so much for this.

“Zionism is a genocidal ideology”, “It should be dismantled and destroyed “, Professor David Miller, formerly at Bristol University, in comments made in 2024, based on his academic research. Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst described Israel’s genocide on Gaza like the “Nazis when they entered Eastern Europe “.

I'm an old guy. When I see and hear all this, like for the past 5 months, and I begin to contemplate the loss of humanity, I no longer wish to live.

Invaluable. And, such grief!

No matter how hard they try, we will never forget the city of Gaza and the incredibly compassionate, kind, community minded, resilient people that reside in it. This video was so informative and so important. They’re not just killing the Palestinians, they’re trying to get rid of the culture.

This is 'cultural cleansing'.They envy the Palestinians who actually have a culture, a civilization and thousands of years of history rooted in the region. At that same time, Israelis' grandparents were scattered around Europe.

It's so sad and heartbreaking to hear of the destruction of Palestine and all it meant to be Palestinians. Please remember that your rich cultural wealth is embedded in every Palestinian heart and mind and nobody can take that away from you. The Occupiers are envious and show from their behaviour that they have NOTHING of value. God bless Palestine.

Free palestina 🇵🇸 stop the Genocide

Freedom Palestine gaza

How can any Muslim celebrate Ramadan as they witness this Slaughterhouse

Boykot America

Time to give some back...let the Israelis be the ones to leave the occupied Land!

Blessing and virtue of the Holy Month Ramadan... Ya Allah help the Pelishtine peoples and reward them with peace and happiness..... Indeed you are the most merciful and gracious..... Help your servants...

So what was the plan? I thought Hamas wanted to wipe israel off the map, and instead it is gaza that is wiped out

All I can tell you, I'm crying.

War is bad. Starting wars is bad. Violence is bad. Terrorism is bad.

Gaza was a thriving beautiful collection of towns and small cities, with gardens, hope and happiness despite the occupation!

The Palestinians all over the world must fight for their land and their culture. I heard on a talk show that Netanyahu was born in Brooklyn New York and grew up in New York. The focus now for the Palestinians is to fight to end Israel's 75+ years of occupation, opposition, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide, and build back their nation. The majority of the world is on their side and against Israel. Palestinians all over the world you must fight for a permanent end to this madness.

🧡Happy Ramadan to all 🧡

That’s just evil on another level.

Now, if the Jews really were "God's Chosen" who had a "Biblical" right to all of Palestine .... would they behave like this?

It seems Israel learned from Hitler, and then said I can do better.

Endless crimes against humanity, how a "state" can fall like that are unique

Thank You for your courage.

Heart Breaking

This situation tells and improve that there is no what call UNITED NATIONS , EU, AU.

Refaat poem is written on a piece of cloth, it’s on my wall and his memory is in my heart. Rip. Barb

Netanyahu is a bloodthirsty president in the world.

Very true video

Iran still not saved palestine from Israel? What a bunch of cowards

Thank you!

This hurts my heart. Thank you so much for the courageous reporting. Free free Palestine.

Hamas as cover for crimes

حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل نعم المولى ونعم النصير

It would be wrong to assume a culture and people can not and will not be erased in this day and age ... it must be stoped NOW ... ceasefire yesterday !!

Shocking evidence of genocide!

😢😢😢😢

The whole world knows very well that palestine is innocent

Gaza used to be so beautiful with mosques and universities and museums. Odd for a concentration camp/open air prison.

Thank you Al Jazeera for the magnificent coverage on Gaza..No other mainstream news outlet comes close. 👏 👆 💯 ✌ 🎉

Hearbreaking

Pure evils behavior. Free Palestinian. Stop genocide.

Thank you Al Jazeera!

Thank for this history. It's important to know not just what's happening at the moment, but what is being lost. And to all watching, remember that cultural annihilation is also Genocide under International Law.

you mean, you're LOSING?...a war?

😂😂😂 Anyway no ceasefire 🤣😂😂. Stay strong Israel ❤️❤️❤️

Well done Thankyou for covering this

What WAR !!!!! Sad ,mad and bad world we live in.

A war of annihilation indeed! There is genocide in Gaza! 1: Death Toll: First off, a genocide does not require a high death toll. More on that at the end of this section. The death toll at this time is about 30,000. The Gaza Ministry of Health is not controlled by Hamas when it comes to estimates of the death toll. [Source: What is Gaza‘s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war‘s death toll?, AP News.] Their figures from previous conflicts have lined up with figures from foreign, even western, and American counts. The Gaza Health Ministry doesn’t have simple estimates, but it actually calculates the total death toll by counting each body delivered to hospitals and morgues. It is an extremely high standard for death figures, one that certainly results in a figure that is much lower than the real figure. [Source: Gaza death toll: why counting the dead has become a daily struggle, Reuters.] The cause of the lower figures is that during violent attacks like this: There are always many dead who never make it to a hospital or a morgue and who aren’t found until much later. There are some who don’t even have any family members left to report them missing. The US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs says that the death toll is “very possibly” much higher than being cited. [Source: US official says Gaza death toll is believed to possibly be higher than claimed, Times of Israel.] Only one of the five genocidal acts listed in the UN genocidal acts list of the UN Genocide Convention in Article II is related directly to killing (stipulation (a)), and meeting any of the 5 stipulations constitutes genocide. A genocide doesn’t need high death counts. 2: Genocidal Acts: Note: I will be occasionally using references from the trial for the Srebrenica-Bosnian genocide. 2.1: Act 1, Bombing Civilian Buildings. Israel's grip over Gaza was always so complete that it actually controls the Gaza Population Registry. Meaning, when it strikes a residential building, it has a list of everyone who lives there. It knows how many people, how many children, and how many elderly people could be killed or injured. Then it bombs them anyway. [Source: The Population Registry, Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement] As the trial for Srebrenica said: “The offender is culpable because he knew or should have known that the act committed would destroy, in whole or in part, a group.” This wholly applies to Israel‘s bombing. In Gaza, 70% of those killed have been children, women, and the elderly. [Source: Israel Gaza: What Gaza‘s death toll says about the war, BBC News.] After Israel destroyed and damaged 60% of Gaza’s buildings, it claimed that they killed 5,000 fighters. [Source: IDF officials: 15,000 likely killed in Gaza since start of war, 5,000 of them are Hamas, Times of Israel.] Note: 5,000 was the claimed estimate during the period when Gaza saw 60% of buildings destroyed or damaged. I am using that figure because I am speaking in relation to the destruction of buildings. That would have required that every military-aged man killed was a fighter, so it is clearly inflated. Even if we assume 5,000 fighters was correct: 60% means 100,000 destroyed, 250,000 damaged, including 25,000 ‘military’ targets. All of those buildings for 5,000 fighters. This is also all using the highest precision weapons worldwide. With these numbers, it’s more plausible to assume that Israel targets civilians and accidentally kills a fighter in the process, not vice versa. The bombing against Germany during World War II destroyed just 45% of buildings over multiple years. Gaza’s 60% was in 2 months, and the numbers now are certainly higher than before. Many claim that Israel's warning people to leave buildings before a bomb drops is a humane act. But… This means any fighters inside can leave too, just like any other civilian. That leaves the only reason for the bombing: Leaving nothing for Palestinians to return to after being exiled to Sinai. More on population transfer later. This shows that not only is the claim of bombing to kill Hamas fighters just irrelevant to whether a genocide is being perpetrated or not, but it is also blatantly false. Israel bombed practically every square inch of North Gaza. It is absurd to say each building had a fighter. Even killing a fighter in the bombing of a building is a war crime, as he would be off-duty. An exception is commanders, as they would be actively planning. [Source: TQ & A: US Targeted Killings and International Law, Human Rights Watch.] Israel posted a video of a strike on a church, claiming it was a Hamas center. Later, they deleted all evidence from social media, and refused to comment. Hundreds of civilians and dozens of children were sheltering in the church at the time of the strike. They knowingly lied about it being a Hamas center and tried to use it as media propaganda. 2.2: Act 2, Population Transfer: An Israeli leaked document, confirmed as authentic by Israel, proposed to evacuate all 2.4 million Gazan Palestinians via evacuation orders into tent cities that would be set up on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It also explicitly states that the population will never be allowed to return. [Source: Israel Intelligence Ministry Policy Paper on Gaza’s Civilian Population, October 2023] Israel’s acts show that these plans are being implemented. Forcible transfer is a war crime, and would be considered within the context of a wider genicidal scheme. Israel told 1.1 million North Gazans to evacuate south. These are the types of threats used in the Srebrenica-Bosnian genocide: Mrs. Camila Omanovic, a witness in the trial of General Krstié, recalled Mladic's words clearly: "He said, ‘You can go anywhere you want, or you can stay here or just vanish.’” They are not humanitarian; they are threats designed to force native residents to leave. This is a clear case of forced population transfer. They bombed all the houses in the north en masse, ensuring that all those who evacuated had nothing to return to when they are eventually expelled to Sinai. By November 23rd, around 1.7 million Palestinians, or 70% of the population of Gaza, were displaced. [Source: Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #48, UN OCHA.] The numbers are now certainly higher. These people are getting forcibly expelled, then getting forcibly expelled from where they were expelled multiple times. Many who were being expelled were bombed on the way south. This happened because Israel bombed the southern routes and 'safe zones’ after telling the 1.1 million Palestinians to move south. [Source: Israel told Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza and stepped up attacks there, NPR.] The zone will keep shrinking until they get expelled into Sinai. Israel will not allow anyone to come back once it expels the Palestinians to Sinai. Israel has a long history of forcible transfers of Palestinians. It forced 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 Nakba. It then mass-murdered those who tried to return to reclaim their property. It has since done this to countless more. It never let those people come back. There’s no reason to think it would in this case. This transfer of populations is also what happened in Srebrenica: “The Trial Chamber provided sufficient reasoning for its conclusion that the suffering of the women, children, and elderly forcibly removed from Srebrenica amounted to serious mental harm under Article 4 of the Statute." Gaza‘s situation is on a far larger scale than that of Srebrenica. All the actions we went over correspond to sections (b) and (c) of the UN Genocide Convention list of genocidal acts in Article II: “(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.” “(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” In the UN Genocide Convention, meeting just any one of the 5 listed genocidal acts is enough to constitute genocide. There is so much more to say. On the topic of this video, I also have a section about cultural sites, but RU-vid deletes it.

October 7th was the pinnacle of Palestinian "culture".

Hamas atrocities directed at Israel must be condemned too....

This brief account is eloquent! Thank you! Keep your history coming, the world is listening!

Dont you remember october 7

Just to let everyone know, minister Naledi Pandor of my country South Africa, has just announced that all South Africans, who have gone to fight with the IDF against the Palestinians, will be arrested upon their return to South Africa. 👏🏽👏🏽 so I guess they’ll have to find another residential country.

Isriel is such a bully

I'm so sorry for your losses!🙏😭💔🙌👐

7th of Oct was a bad idea

The most watch and untrusted worthy channel Al-Jazeera.

It’s a shame

When you start a war of annihilation, don't be surprised when the war of annihilation comes back at you, tenfold. You danced for war. The whole world has seen the footage.

Looks like Syria, what is the difference, except that Hamas wanted this to happen, this is the price of war and only Hamas is to blame, Egypt needs to open it's boarder

Hamas still says Oct 7th was a success and still hold onto hostages.

💔😭 Strong man with impossible grace to calmly explain bits of what too many REFUSE to acknowledge! Only 🆕 thing is how brazen, broad & public 🇮🇱 terror/horrors/crimes now are..

What a completely neutral, totally unbiased, fully factual "news" organization.

Next time don’t play with Israel 🙂

Subxaanallah may Allah help our brothers in Gaza

Thank you for this reporting. As an international community we need to understand what is happening so that we can put pressure on our governments to defund apartheid and annihilation of indigenous people worldwide.

❤🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱❤ Shalom from Israel P.s Now you are crying, at the beginning of October you were laughing.

Before Hamas conducted Oct 7 massacre, Gaza was rich with gorgeous beaches. The money was given by Israel. This is told by Palestinians. Hamas is to blame for all the disasters.

So true sir.

EXACTLY

Yes. When Hamas hit Israel, Netanyahu clearly spelt out the scope of the process. He stated clearly that this was not a civil operation but a WAR. HE PROMISED TO TURN GAZA INTO RUBBLE. BUT HAMAS SHOUTED BACK AND SAID THAT THEY WERE PREPARED FOR THE AFTERMATH OF THE REACTION. AND NOW HEAR WE ARE STARING AT THE RESULT OF THE PROCESS. LET HAMAS SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE and take RESPONSIBILITY.

What about October 7th? Is that violation?

before he even said his name, I knew he was talking about Refaat. his memory will never die. May he, along with all the precious souls lost in PALESTINE, rest in peace. FREE PALESTINE ❤🖤💚🇵🇸

How is the one-year hostage? And his brother, who is four years old?

Refusing to let the sleeping dog lie and instead waking it up has now led to facing the consequences, and assuming the role of the victim.

I stand with Palestine, their culture, their 'Sumoud', their pride, their grander.

You are telling the truth, US, EU and UK are turning a blind eye, this will have repercussions

Do Not call it a War If is IT a Genocide

Am so confused, is it not war that Hamas wanted ¿ now they have it why are they crying

That Looks bad,,,really bad😢,,the world IS a mess.