At least 101 people were reportedly killed when Israel bombarded her family’s Gaza City flat in October of last year. The Israeli military (IDF) released overhead footage of the operation two days later, on October 27, 2023, stating that they were going for a “Hamas terror tunnel”.
Since the battle began a year ago, in response to Hamas’s October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, the Israeli military has released hundreds of videos online. This one is only one of them. The militant organization with its base in Gaza murdered almost 1,200 Israelis, the most of them were civilians, and kidnapped another 251 people.
In response, Israel launched a massive aerial bombing campaign and a ground invasion, claiming thousands of lives.
The majority of those killed in the conflict, according to Gaza’s health ministry headed by Hamas, have been women and children. The number of civilian deaths in Gaza, according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, is “overwhelmingly due to recurring failures by the Israeli Defence Forces to comply with the rules of war.”
In collaboration with Airwars, an investigative war monitor, News has examined how the IDF has used aerial imagery in the last 12 months.
These movies, according to experts, are meant to demonstrate Israel’s military victory over Hamas, but they only give a partial picture of the strikes. By contrasting them with film from the ground and interviews with survivors and their families, we capture the human experience of these horrific attacks in Gaza.
