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The Footage The BBC Won’t Show You
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The Footage The BBC Won’t Show You
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00:00This is the film you will not see on the BBC or CNN or any other Western media.
00:05Over the last year, we have witnessed what is the greatest crime of the 21st century.
00:10Perversely, it's a crime that has been meticulously documented and presented to us
00:14by the people who are carrying it out.
00:16We at Al Jazeera have collated all that evidence, packaged it.
00:20What it reveals is truly shocking.
00:22We focus on the town of Khebuk Hazar, which is a small town of about 13,000 people.
00:27The Israeli army enters this town just after Christmas.
00:30It's emptied of people and they simply destroy it.
00:32And they record themselves doing it.
00:34They post before and after videos.
00:36And the town is entirely flattened.
00:39There is no precedent for this in the whole history of the Israeli army.
00:43We have become addicted to explosions.
00:46The willful destruction of civilian property for punitive reasons,
00:51or even perhaps to create a buffer strip, is illegal.
00:54You can't do that.
00:55It's against international law.
00:57And they're doing it, and they're recording it, and they're putting it on Facebook.
01:00And we know the names of the soldiers and the commanders who did it.
01:03They go into the homes of Palestinians, and they're often clearly staying there.
01:08And they just smash them up.
01:09And they film themselves smashing them up.
01:11They also delight in going through women's underwear drawers.
01:15And this is a sort of recurring obsession.
01:18You have to see Israeli soldier videos in the context of the broader output of Israeli society.
01:25If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza,
01:28every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow,
01:33I would press it in a second.
01:35I would press it right now.
01:37Give me that button and press it right now.
01:39There you go.
01:41And I think most Israelis would.
01:42There's an Israeli song called This Was My Home.
01:45What they would do is dress up as caricatures of obviously what they perceive
01:49Palestinians to be being sung mockingly to people who no longer have homes.
01:53We're not looking at some sort of obscure subculture within Israeli society.
01:59This is mainstream Israeli society.
02:07When people tell you who they are, believe them.
02:09It's an entire nation out there that is responsible.
02:14And we will fight until we break their backbone.
02:17972 magazine carried a story about how the Israelis were using AI,
02:23artificial intelligence, for targeting.
02:25Essentially, they had a problem.
02:27They wanted a rate of strikes in the Gaza Strip,
02:30which human computation couldn't keep up with.
02:33They needed to use AI to identify these targets.
02:36They're using people's phones and their social media,
02:39any information at all they can scrape about them.
02:42And then they track them through their phones.
02:44So who are they talking to on their phone?
02:45Who are they simply near as they're carrying their phones around?
02:47And they have a little league table.
02:49And if you accumulate enough points, you can be killed.
02:52The terrifying thing is how do you kill them?
02:53Where do you kill them?
02:54And they reached the calculation that it's much easier to kill people when they're at home,
02:59which is where the second bit of software kicks in, which is called Where's Daddy?
03:04The naming is indicative of a fairly dark sense of humor.
03:08They track you.
03:10Once daddy is home, they can kill you.
03:12And of course, along with anyone else who is in the house as well.
03:14It's astonishing what Israeli soldiers do put on film,
03:19but that raises the question of what they don't put on film.
03:23You very rarely see them actually fighting.
03:25Every now and then you'll see them all firing their guns,
03:27but usually pretty clear there's no incoming.
03:30On the other hand, what you see a great deal of is them dressing up in women's underwear.
03:34Has Israel managed to destroy Hamas?
03:37I would point to a really simple common sense thing.
03:41Israeli soldiers have posted thousands of videos online.
03:44The IDF, the Israeli army, repeatedly posts videos online.
03:50Scour those videos for the bodies of dead fighters, and there's remarkably few.
03:56I remember 20 years ago in Afghanistan when the Taliban fell,
03:59before the age of social media, and I remember making films about that.
04:02Footage with piles of corpses.
04:04It's extraordinary how few dead Hamas fighters we are seeing.
04:08Another extraordinary facet of this conflict is the repeated attacks on hospitals.
04:15They have assaulted every single one of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
04:21We have the films of Mohammed Al-Hallou, a remarkable young journalist,
04:25who really chronicled the whole story of the Nasser Hospital.
04:28The Israelis are very keen to drive people taking refuge in the hospital out,
04:32to force them further south.
04:34They send a messenger in to the hospital to order the people there to leave,
04:40and they use a detainee, and they've made it quite clear to him
04:43they know who his mother is, where she is, and that she will be killed if he does not return.
04:48So he does return.
04:49They send him back because the people still aren't leaving.
04:51People aren't leaving because they don't trust the Israelis.
04:53One of the few people who does leave is his mother.
04:56She follows him out with a small group of other people,
04:59and he's killed in front of our eyes.
05:00Having used him as a messenger, as a human shield effectively,
05:03they simply shoot him.
05:04They shoot him three times in front of our eyes and kill him.
05:07What is extraordinary about so many of the soldiers' videos
05:09is the sense of impunity they have.
05:11One particular video is the 202nd paratroopers.
05:15When they left Gaza, individuals within that unit put together a video.
05:19It's like a commemorative video, and it's edited, and it's set to music, and so on.
05:22It's been up on YouTube now for six months.
05:25It includes three men, separate incidents, men who are shot by snipers.
05:30They are putting up the killing of people who are clearly unarmed.
05:35And for soldiers to post this in their own names
05:39shows a sense that they simply don't have to account for their actions at all.
05:44Deaths by snipers are very common in the Gaza Strip, and it's not just adult men.
05:51There's a particular shot of a child, a young boy,
05:54who was shot at the gates of the Nasser Hospital.
05:56It's then too dangerous to collect the body.
05:59If you're a sniper, you know who you're shooting.
06:01You've got very good sights, and you know perfectly well what you're looking at.
06:05Mohammed al-Hallou, he is almost killed numerous times.
06:09One of the occasions is he's shot.
06:10He's wearing a flak jacket.
06:12They've actually managed to hit the thing that says press.
06:15One of the dreadful things about working as a journalist
06:18and as a human rights worker during this conflict,
06:20not only do you not have sort of immunity, as it were, you are positively a target.
06:26As Western journalists, you know, we sometimes work in very hairy situations,
06:30and we face danger and so on.
06:32What we don't generally wrestle with is the perpetual fear
06:35that they're going to murder our children.
06:37And in fact, on a number of occasions,
06:39they have murdered the families of Al Jazeera journalists.
06:42It's shameful that the international journalistic community
06:46has not stood up more, not just for Al Jazeera,
06:48but for all those other journalists who have been killed in the Gaza Strip.
06:52Well over 10% of all journalists in Gaza have lost their lives
06:55since this conflict began.
06:57The usual mortality rates expected of infantry soldiers is less than 5%.
07:02So we're talking about absolutely shocking levels of loss of life.
07:07Detainees are clearly abused when they are first taken prisoner.
07:11We've all seen the images of them stripped to their underwear.
07:13It's clearly designed to humiliate.
07:16We gathered accounts in the Gaza Strip of people being beaten.
07:19We have a picture of one man who had a Star of David carved into his back.
07:23In a way, for many, this is just a prelude
07:26to when they're taken into Israel, to these detention centres.
07:29In our film, we have one grotesque eyewitness account
07:31of a dog being used to rape someone.
07:53The UN report at the end of June identified 53 individuals
08:01who have been killed in Israeli detention.
08:03There's a report on Israel's Channel 13 broadcasting to the world,
08:07advertising the fact, celebrating the fact,
08:10that these men spend 24 hours in complete darkness
08:13with a single hole for a toilet in handcuffs,
08:15chained together with leg cuffs.
08:17The whole focus of the report is clearly the Israeli public
08:20and what they're trying to stress
08:22is how badly these people are being treated,
08:24because clearly the political issue within Israel
08:27is whether they're not being treated badly enough.
08:51No-one can hide here, no-one can pretend they didn't know what was happening,
09:03because the Israelis were shouting it in our faces.
09:06Human shields are an enormously important topic
09:09and it's an absolute indictment of Western media,
09:13the way this is covered.
09:14The idea that Hamas, the Kassam Brigades and so on,
09:18used the civilian population as human shields.
09:20There is no evidence that they are positively using them as human shields
09:24in the sense that they're hiding behind them,
09:26not allowing them to leave or not telling them that they're there.
09:29A second part about that as well,
09:31what is there about Israeli behavior over the last year
09:34that would lead anyone for a moment to think
09:36that the presence of civilians would lead them to hold their fire?
09:40There's absolutely nothing to suggest that they would respect the fact
09:46that there are civilians in the way and therefore not shoot,
09:49which means that it would be utterly pointless for Hamas.
09:52I've looked at the Kassam Brigades' own combat videos,
09:55which are a stark contrast to the videos that the Israeli soldiers put online.
10:00There's over 300 of them
10:02and they very often show successful attacks on tanks and other armored vehicles.
10:06These attacks all take place in desolate, abandoned landscapes.
10:11I have not seen a single civilian.
10:13Then there is the secondary point,
10:15the UN, international and Israeli human rights organizations
10:19have found the Israelis to be guilty of using human shields.
10:23In the film, we have footage of this.
10:25You can see there they are hiding behind people,
10:27resting their guns on their shoulder.
10:29They've got a man and he's being forced to go and inspect empty buildings,
10:33open the doors and so on,
10:34so that if they're booby-trapped or if there's an ambush, he will get it.
10:38It's clearly absolutely systematic.
10:40Now, the fact that the entirety of Western media
10:43and the Western political class continues to trot out this mantra
10:47about it being Hamas that hides behind human shields,
10:52when all of the abundant evidence suggests precisely the opposite.
10:56The Israelis today are saying that Hamas use Palestinians as human shields.
11:01Do they?
11:02Killing the victims, then blaming the victims for killing themselves.
11:06I mean, what is this logic?
11:08Palestinian groups take their own people hostage.
11:11This is racism.
11:13This is sickness.
11:14The appalling caliber of the journalism is just absolutely shocking.
11:19Israeli behavior is dependent on the indulgence of the West.
11:24We use some of Matt Kennard's reporting in Declassified UK.
11:28Matt has done an awful lot of work exposing the role of RAF Akrotiri,
11:32a place most British people probably haven't heard of,
11:34but we still own a chunk of Cyprus, not it.
11:36We have a bloody great air force base.
11:38And it is clearly playing a vital role in this conflict.
11:42Right from the beginning of the conflict,
11:43you had huge military transport planes flying to Israel,
11:47numerous surveillance flights in the air for six hours at a time
11:52sent from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus over the Gaza Strip.
11:55And the suspicion would be that they are providing
11:57targeting information to the Israelis.
12:00Already by March, they'd accumulated 1,000 hours
12:03of surveillance footage over the Gaza Strip.
12:06The government is not providing a satisfactory explanation
12:10of what all this footage is being used for.
12:13Will you also explain what role, legally or otherwise,
12:16Britain has played in overflying Gaza with surveillance aircraft
12:21and the use of RAF Akrotiri as a staging point for aircraft going to Israel,
12:26which many people believe are carrying weapons that are used to bomb Gaza?
12:30I am very comfortable with the support that we give to Israel
12:36and I won't comment on operational issues.
12:38The double standards of Western media, of Western politicians
12:41are just breathtaking.
12:42I mean, you just have to look at David Lammy and Keir Starmer's response
12:46to the Iranian attack on Israel, which didn't actually kill anyone.
12:51I utterly condemn this attempt by the Iranian regime
12:56to harm innocent Israelis.
12:58And they were straight to the lectern condemning it
13:01in a way that they have not condemned the Israelis
13:04who have killed over 40,000 people.
13:06It's quite clear that the lives of one group of people
13:10are worth more than the lives of another group of people.
13:12If Israel is attacked, the Western media and Western politicians
13:16are full of rhetoric about Israel has a right to defend themselves.
13:19Israel has a right to defend itself.
13:21Israel has a right to defend itself.
13:24Israel has a right to self-defense.
13:26We stand with Israel and we recognize her right to self-defense.
13:31If Israel attacks people, then the whole media narrative
13:35is about fears of escalation.
13:38In other words, the great danger that the other side might fight back.
13:41The double standards are just breathtaking.
13:43One way in which we're sort of liberated at Al Jazeera
13:46is we don't have to buy into this bogus two-side system,
13:51this bogus sort of equivalence.
13:53There is no equivalence between on the one hand
13:57an all-powerful occupying power
14:01building illegal settlements on Palestinian land
14:03and on the other side, a prostrate, helpless, powerless people.
14:07There's no moral, political, or military equivalence there.
14:10But also, on October 7th, two babies are killed,
14:13okay, which is dreadful, it's appalling.
14:15At the end of August, when the Gazan Health Ministry
14:17published detailed figures,
14:19the first 14 pages, 701 names
14:23were taken out with children under the age of one.
14:27And that doesn't include 7,000 people
14:29for whom there was no documentation.
14:30It doesn't include the large numbers of people
14:32who are still under the rubble
14:33or who have died because of lack of access to healthcare.
14:36It's very, very likely that in the end,
14:39the total number of dead and injured in the Gaza Strip
14:42will be more than a quarter of a million people.
14:45There is just no comparison between the two.
14:49Now if, as for example, the BBC often does,
14:51you achieve balance by having two stories
14:53in your evening news report.
14:55On the one hand, reporting the very real anguish
14:58and trauma of a family who still have a son
15:00or a daughter in captivity in Gaza.
15:02And on the other hand, an airstrike
15:04which has killed 40 people,
15:0615 of them, whatever, who are perhaps children.
15:08If you are treating that as equivalent,
15:11you are buying into a fundamentally racist arithmetic.
15:14There was no balance in what was going on.
15:17Israeli spokespeople who we did have on
15:20were given a lot of free reign to say whatever they wanted
15:23with very little pushback.
15:25Babies were set on fire.
15:28Babies were shot in the head.
15:30Whereas any Palestinian guest was asked to condemn Hamas.
15:35I want to ask you specifically about Hamas's actions today.
15:38Do you support them?
15:40Israel has a right to defend itself.
15:43That was the editorial line that was drilled into us
15:46into all of our coverage.
15:48To a guest talking about, you know,
15:51Israeli airstrikes killing Palestinians in Gaza.
15:54That would be the response from our presenters.
15:57Denying access to food is collective punishment
15:59and that we should all be clear in saying that.
16:02Israel will argue, obviously,
16:03that it has a right to defend itself.
16:05People were terrified of using the word genocide in coverage.
16:08They still are.
16:10You will very rarely see it in any BBC coverage.
16:14And if an interviewee says the word genocide?
16:16This is a genocide happening in front of our eyes.
16:18We have, we, that word is, as you know, incredibly emotive
16:23and the Israelis, as you know,
16:24will be saying that they are targeting Hamas only.
16:37No one can say they didn't know.
16:38The Israelis could not have made it clearer to us
16:41what they were doing in their rhetoric,
16:43social media they were posting,
16:45and what their own media was saying.
16:47That this was an exercise in ethnic cleansing,
16:50quite possibly an exercise in genocide.
16:52They were making it abundantly clear to us.
16:55And if we are ignorant, we are willfully ignorant.
16:58When people tell you who they are, believe them.
17:01And the Israelis have certainly told us
17:03who they are over the last year.
17:06The experience of the last year is testimony
17:08to the inadequacy of traditional media in the West,
17:12which seems simply to be unable to tell this story
17:17as it really is.
17:18And it highlights more than ever
17:20the need for independent media outlets like Double Down News.
17:24And I would urge you to support Double Down News on Patreon.