In Their Own Posts: The Evidence Israeli Soldiers Shared From Gaza
For three years, Palestinians in Gaza have filmed their own killing. Journalists broadcast from beside their dead colleagues. Parents filmed the rubble where their children lay. Much of that footage has since been removed from the platforms where it first appeared. A second body of evidence came from the other side. Israeli soldiers filmed themselves detonating homes, burning houses, ransacking
schools and parading bound, stripped detainees, then posted the clips to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and YouTube, often under their own names. Several major investigations have documented this footage, and lawyers have filed it with international courts. This piece gathers that record in one place: what the footage shows, who has verified it, how geolocation ties a clip to a specific street,
and where readers can examine the evidence themselves. The human cost The Gaza Ministry of Health has recorded more than 73,000 people killed since October 2023, each tied to a named death record. That figure is a floor. Independent researchers, building on peer-reviewed correspondence in The Lancet on indirect deaths from starvation, untreated disease and destroyed hospitals, put the wider toll
as high as roughly 680,000. The verified count is a minimum. The full number of Palestinian lives lost is still unknown. Archive Genocide lists 72,835 named victims in its memorial section, alongside more than 156,000 videos and photographs preserved from Gaza and the West Bank. What the world's legal bodies have said On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take