Why is evidence of Israel's war crimes in Gaza disappearing?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Many of the images that have been seen from Israel’s war in Gaza have already been seen for the last time. With Gaza under siege from the Israeli military and tech companies censoring and taking down material, the responsibility falls on the people of Gaza to document and archive their own evidence of war crimes and genocide. How will it survive?
This is a story from the archives. This originally aired on April 11, 2025. None of the dates, titles or other references from that time have been changed.
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- Lila Hassan (@lilahass), Investigative Journalist
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This episode was produced by Melanie Marich and Sonia Bhagat, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Chloe K. Li, Kisaa Zehra, Remas Alhawari, Sarí el-Khallili, and Natasha Del Toro. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Malika here. |
| 0:13.0 | Israel's war on Gaza has been one of the most documented genocides in history, |
| 0:19.0 | livestream to the world for over two years, with social media |
| 0:22.5 | functioning as a rolling archive of images, videos, and testimony. But that archive isn't necessarily |
| 0:29.3 | permanent. Today, we're revisiting an episode about the fight to preserve what remains, and what's at |
| 0:36.2 | stake if the archive continues to disappear. |
| 0:39.9 | This episode originally aired April 11, 2025. All dates and references are from that time. |
| 0:51.8 | Today, evidence of Israel's war crimes in Gaza is disappearing faster than it can be archived. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm not sure that they're going to ever be able to finish the work that's going to get done, |
| 1:03.0 | because the sheer scale of attacks is constantly outpacing their human capacity to archive. |
| 1:15.1 | How much of the records we've seen of the genocide is already gone? |
| 1:20.5 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is the take. |
| 1:32.7 | My name is Ella Hassan. I'm an independent investigative reporter, and I'm speaking to you today from Doha Qatar. |
| 1:40.5 | And real quick, before we dive into the interview, I just wanted to know, how did you even come to this story? |
| 1:48.0 | It's one of those stories that sits in plain sight. And as I asked myself, like many other people who are constantly watching all of the footage that comes out on their phone, where is this |
| 1:52.3 | getting saved? Who's saving it? What does saving it even look like? Who's in charge of archives? |
| 1:58.2 | As the reporting process kind of unfolded, I discovered a thousand and one |
| 2:02.0 | challenges to that kind of effort. To that question. Right. And so then you actually published |
| 2:08.3 | an investigation for DropSight into this effort to document Gaza's war crimes. And I want to start |
| 2:17.1 | with a photo that really struck me from this |
| 2:20.6 | investigation that was recently published. And it's of Solomon Higey, who is a visual |
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