Israeli troops have filmed themselves while vandalizing a Palestinian-owned shop in Gaza and mocking its contents.
Videos of Israeli forces demolishing stores and food supplies in Gaza have gone viral as Israel persists in its catastrophic ground assault and indiscriminate bombardment of the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Recently circulated videotape shows an Israeli soldier smiling while smashing toys, ornaments, and other objects in a destroyed shop in the Jabalia Refugee camp north of Gaza city.
Israeli soldiers vandalize a gift shop in #Gaza after destroying the area and killing or expelling residents pic.twitter.com/Dunu2cQxXL
— Palestine Now (@PalestineNW) December 8, 2023
Another video appears to show Israeli soldiers destroying food and water by setting fire to aid supplies on the back of a lorry in the Shejaiya area, amid the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Janine di Giovanni, the CEO of the Reckoning Project said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Israeli soldiers were “documenting their own war crimes”.
Israeli soldiers celebrating Hanukkah by setting fire to the little food and water that’s left in Gaza, where food and water shortages are at crisis level. https://t.co/OHoYsNHj2Q
— idreesahmad.bsky.social (@im_PULSE) December 10, 2023
Additional video footage of Israeli soldiers abusing Palestinian captives in Israeli hands has also been circulated. Among those featured is Diaa Al-Kahlout, the Gaza correspondent for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a sister publication of The New Arab.
The video shows Israeli forces ordering a prisoner over to lay a pistol next to a tank while hundreds of Palestinian civilians were detained next to a building, some of them only wearing their underpants.
????1/ Several people have pointed out that this video posted of ‘Hamas surrendering’ has been staged, with several takes. The photo on the left shows a man holding a gun in his right hand. Another video shows the same man holding the gun in his left hand. #disinformation #gaza pic.twitter.com/s7ImSrKCvB
— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) December 10, 2023
Social media users have drawn attention to parallels between the video and other film that purportedly shows dozens of civilians being arrested by the Israeli military, despite the Israeli military’s insistence that the footage depicts surrendered Hamas fighters.
