They believed in punishment… so they harmed humanity

They said in the past, “He who punishes security…has misbehaved,” and this has become a habit among the Israelis. Since the beginning of the war on Gaza, the occupation soldiers have been taking pictures and video clips of themselves while bombing homes and schools and torturing prisoners, and they publish and share them on social networking sites, accompanied by With their celebration of dance or song.

To brag about their atrocities against civilians, Israeli forces routinely filmed themselves demolished residential blocks in Gaza, then began sharing them online. The clips showed Israeli soldiers mocking the property of dead Palestinians, especially women’s underwear, or playing with Palestinian children’s toys and bicycles. The soldiers also recorded themselves stealing jewelry, clothes, and valuables from the homes of Palestinians who They bombed them and ethnically cleansed them.

Many photos show soldiers enjoying sitting in the ruins of the homes, schools and hospitals they bombed, as a recent photo shows, taken in the aftermath A horrific massacre. A group of soldiers demonstrate, some of them smiling, in front of a destroyed hospital that they turned into a military base.

In some cruel cases, soldiers filmed themselves inside occupied homes in Gaza: cooking food that the victims had left without eating. They drink Arabic coffee, lie in bathtubs, urinate on the rubble of houses, or throw food on demolished houses to mock the hungry Palestinians.

Many pictures also show soldiers with… Unarmed Palestinian prisoners. An Israeli soldier recently posted a photo on his Instagram account in which he appears in a destroyed building in Rafah, hovering over kidnapped Palestinians in inhumane conditions, blindfolded and handcuffed, as they lie on the ground.

By publishing these pictures, the occupation soldiers want to portray themselves in a heroic way contrary to reality, and sometimes this image may produce results in favor of The Palestinian people. For example, in December, an Israeli soldier was filmed holding a weapon on a young Palestinian man, Hamza Abu Halima, from the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City. The soldier then posted the video online, and a screenshot taken from the video went viral. It showed Hamza, naked, facing the soldier without fear and defiance, which made “Hamza” A symbol of courage, earning him the nickname “Lion of Gaza,” so the soldier deleted the video.

In an attempt to dehumanize Palestinians and entertain Israeli onlookers, soldiers publish footage of themselves desecrating mosques and the Qur’an, vandalizing homes and shops, or mocking From the suffering of the Palestinians, a soldier was filmed destroying occupied Palestinian homes in Rafah, before publishing the footage on his account. On Instagram with the caption: “Restoration in Gaza,” another soldier was filmed randomly shooting at Palestinian homes in Gaza while smoking a cigarette.

Truthout, an independently funded American non-profit organization, explained that it is often The posts are often accompanied by messages bearing genocidal content and pledges to annihilate Gaza and ethnically cleanse Palestinians, which echo statements by senior politicians and military commanders. The Israelis.

 Some of these posts show soldiers dedicating a destroyed Palestinian house to family members, friends and even celebrities. In one of the video clips, a soldier gave a demolished house in Khan Yunis to the Israeli singer Eyal Golan, who called for the annihilation of Gaza. Another filmed him using explosives in Palestinian neighborhoods in Gaza, saying: “This is for you, mate.” My mother.

Sometimes, soldiers accompany the videos with Israeli patriotic music, or, more cynically, traditional Palestinian music, and in one case, an Israeli soldier posted a fake advertisement for “his own barbershop.” In Gaza, to the tune of an Israeli hip-hop song that compares Palestinians to animals. Telegram mocks pictures of a decapitated Palestinian child.

These pictures and videos, which are widely circulated on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, a growing culture of impunity, bear witness to the brutality and unfolding horror of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, and also show the extent to which the dehumanization of Palestinians has been normalized in Israel.

Such The posts have a wide following on social media, with some garnering hundreds of thousands of views and shares. However, despite the atrocities that Israel has documented itself – “The most documented genocide in history,” in the words of Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, soldiers are likely to escape justice because they enjoy complete immunity in Israel, where the courts have a miserable record of prosecuting war crimes committed by Israelis.

Israeli military and political leaders praised some of the soldiers who killed Palestinian children as heroes. In March, the Israeli Minister of National Security praised Itamar Ben Gvir, an Israeli Defense Forces sniper, shot a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, saying that the soldier “deserves an award,” calling on Israeli soldiers to kill children and women in Gaza. 

Reports reveal The horrific report was reported by the Israeli media that soldiers were told “it is permissible to shoot everyone.” In Gaza, including children.

It is easy to imagine this impunity when Israeli leaders and politicians routinely claim that “there are no innocents in Gaza”; When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes the people in Gaza as “children of darkness”; When a member of the Knesset says “liberal” Apparently “the children of Gaza brought this on themselves.”

In the same context, the occupation soldiers received instructions not to travel abroad for fear of being arrested for these practices, while the soldiers were carrying out these practices without fear of the consequences. There were media outlets monitoring and documenting the crimes that were published on social media sites, along with the names of their perpetrators and the dates and locations of their occurrence.

And with the accumulation of scenes that represented clear evidence of condemnation of the perpetrators of these crimes And their political and military leaders, the media and politicians in Israel raised a storm of warnings and criticism.

As a result of these criticisms, the leaders of the Israeli army received orders not to travel abroad, especially with former Israeli officials describing what is happening in Gaza as “genocide.” ».

At the beginning of this month, the American newspaper The Washington Post published an investigation covering an entire year of videos directed by occupation soldiers from inside the Gaza Strip, and the report reviewed 120 photos and video clips circulated by the occupation soldiers of what they were doing inside the Gaza Strip reveal the extent of the crimes and atrocities committed by the occupation soldiers against the Palestinian people.

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