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Forensic Architecture's cartographic analysis of the Gaza genocide, provided to South Africa for use at the International Court of Justice.
Via @ayoub , but let me repeat for emphasis: READ THIS
(a thread with some findings from the summary)
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide
"ISR military campaign in Gaza between 7 October 2023 and 30 June 2024 involved the reshaping of the cultivated and built environment of the region through acts of destruction and construction...
The territorial reorganisation of Gaza is consistent with statements made by ISR political leaders calling for a long-term Israeli military presence and the construction of permanent Jewish settlements in Gaza"
By 30 August 2024, the Humanitarian Zone was reduced to 47.4 sq km (13%) of Gaza.
"The Israeli military has continuously attacked all areas of Gaza such that no place can reasonably be considered safe."
"According to data published by the UN, 346 schools were used as shelters, 70% of them were attacked."
83% of plant life destroyed
70% of agricultural land destroyed
45% of greenhouses destroyed
47% of groundwater wells and 65% of water tanks destroyed or damaged, with the state of 26% of wells unknown
"The Israeli military repeatedly destroyed agriculture and water resources across Gaza...
The Israeli military’s conduct has likely caused contamination in Gaza’s land and water resources."
"The Israeli military repeatedly targeted medical infrastructure across Gaza...
Sites of medical infrastructure where healthcare services were (a) reestablished and (b) introduced were subsequently targeted by the Israeli military..
The timing of the Israeli military’s attacks on hospitals correlates with the presence of displaced civilians at those hospitals..."
Destruction of the medical system:
"Healthcare workers have been direct targets of the Israeli military, as opposed to being indirect casualties of attacks on hospitals.
The Israeli military destroyed and occupied hospitals even after they had been forced out of service and evacuated.
The Israeli military’s targeting of hospitals caused damage to Gaza’s maternity services."
57% of health facilities attacked
71% of shelters attacked
53% of utilities attacked
75% of schools attacked
81% of universities attacked
82% of government buildings attacked
80% of religious institutions attacked
91% of cultural heritage sites attacked (!!! - OP)
"The timing of the Israeli military’s airstrikes on specific infrastructure correlates with the time at which a higher density of civilians would be expected to be present...
Public infrastructure was destroyed even after it had been previously damaged, and when it was unlikely to be occupied...
We observed repeated damage to service roads immediately surrounding critical infrastructure"
"We documented 313 incidents of aid-targeting between 7 October 2023 and 16 September 2024...195 UNRWA personnel killed...40 detained"
Our analysis indicates that the Israeli military targeted sites and systems of aid distribution when and where they became the main mode of aid facilitation...
"The periods after which Israel increased the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza...coincide in time and space with an increase of Israel’s targeting of the means of distributing that aid"
[END OF THREAD. Sorry for bothering y'all but these are only some of the reasons why people are using the G-word, or at the very least, talking about the "Crime Against Humanity of Extermination"]
@Akshay The people and state that do this are war criminal and terrorists, in the minds of about 90% of the world's population. But there is no longer any 'international law'.