Gaza: Israeli soldiers admit to deliberately killing unarmed aid seekers
Soldiers say commanders ordered them to shoot starving civilians at ‘killing field’ aid sites: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-gaza-soldier-admit-deliberately-killing-unarmed-aid-seekers.

‘According to soldiers and officers who spoke to Haaretz, commanders instructed them to open fire on people seeking food at aid distribution points despite knowing they posed no threat.
One soldier described the distribution centres as a “killing field”.
“Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day,” the soldier told Haaretz.
“They’re treated like a hostile force, no crowd-control measures, no tear gas. Just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.” …’

So, according to this first hand testimony – starving women and children have been gunned down with heavy machine guns and blown-up by rocket-propelled grenades.

Bulldozing History – see: ‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction – While airstrikes account for mass casualties, bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable, a joint investigation reveals.’: https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-total-urban-destruction/ –

‘The systematic destruction of residential buildings and public structures has become a central part of the Israeli army’s operations, and in many cases, the primary objective.’

In my essay – ‘Cultural Heritage Diplomacy & IHL – Are Principles of Humanity under International Humanitarian Law a diplomatic tool in mediating a peace process and agreement?’, I argue that there is an unspoken connection between the complete obliteration of Cultural Heritage and:

(i) ‘Ethnic Cleansing’; and

(ii) ‘Genocide’.

What is being ‘obliterated’ from history in Gaza, is an entire ‘civilization’.

In other words, what is being done = ‘Cultural Genocide.’

See also www.artandcivilization.tv‘.

I am planning to record and broadcast a video programme about this on YouTube after I have launched the ‘Art Civilization & Law’ Channel on Youtube, toward the end of 2026.

See also – ‘Bulldozing history: How Israel uses archaeology to entrench occupation – Heritage destruction is but one of the many mechanisms in which Israel maintains domination over the Palestinians’: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bulldozing-history-how-israel-uses-archaeology-entrench-occupation

‘Archaeology is but one of the many mechanisms in which Israel maintains domination over the Palestinian people. The use of this biblical narrative is being manipulated as a smokescreen for the Zionist settler-colonial project.

Furthermore, the practice of carrying a bible in one hand and a trowel in the other, which began with the British colonial archaeologists, is being continued by Israel.

To this end, Israel wants to manipulate the historical narrative to serve its interests in the present and to eliminate the possibilities of a Palestinian future.’

See also about the Theft and Illicit Trade in Palestinian Antiquities and Cultural Treasures:

·    Exposing & Resisting Israel’s Theft, Erasure & Appropriation of Palestine’s Archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evgPNg0qC7g

·    Israeli Forces Display Stolen Gaza Artifacts in Knesset – Reports: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-display-stolen-gaza-artifacts-in-knesset-reports/

·   The Trade in Palestinian Antiquities: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/77873