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The Take

How Israeli soldiers are livestreaming war crimes

The Take

Al Jazeera

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Al Jazeera has investigated thousands of posts from social media documenting war crimes by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. What does this database expose about the last year of war – what’s being called the first “livestreamed genocide”?

In this episode:

  • Richard Sanders (@PulaRJS), Director, “Gaza”

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li, David Enders, and Ashish Malhotra with Manny Panaretos, Cole van Miltenburg, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, and our host, Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal. 

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Al Jazeera Podcasts.

0:07.0

Today, when war becomes content creation.

0:15.0

They are conducting a genocide now with glee, they're setting their atrocities to music, putting them on catchy reels on TikTok.

0:24.7

A new film by Al Jazeera's investigative unit examines the war on Gaza through the social media accounts of the soldiers carrying it out.

0:35.2

I'm Kevin Horton and this is The Take.

0:44.2

Social media might not be real life, but through what we post, we curate our own versions of reality, what we want others to see.

0:58.0

Yeah. our own versions of reality, what we want others to see. So what does it tell us when Israeli soldiers are willingly,

1:04.0

and in some cases, gleefully posting videos of themselves committing what many experts consider war crimes.

1:12.1

This was a crime committed in plain sight.

1:16.2

It was a crime that Israeli soldiers posted videos about as they did it.

1:20.5

Israeli politicians announced it beforehand.

1:24.5

The Israeli public and Israeli media cheered them on.

1:28.3

I'm talking to my AJI unit colleague Richard Sanders,

1:32.3

and he's the director of a new film simply called Gaza.

1:36.3

So, Richard, this film does, I think, an excellent job chronicling this horrible here in Gaza.

1:45.1

And one of the ways it tells this story is through the social media posted by the men and

1:49.4

women doing the fighting.

1:51.5

Can you lay out a few examples from the film evidence of Israeli soldiers and citizens seemingly

1:57.5

relishing the suffering of Palestinians?

2:00.0

I mean, it's really there throughout the videos that you see. seemingly relishing the suffering of Palestinians.

2:04.7

I mean, it's really there throughout the videos that you see.

2:07.6

One of the things that is absolutely remarkable about the videos,

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