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File photo of an Israeli soldier directing a tank. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

How an alleged war crime goes away — and resurfaces a year later

Nobody really noticed the deliberate shelling of a Palestinian medical clinic, even when it was reported in real time during Israel’s war in Gaza last summer. Now, because of reporting by an independent journalist, there is a chance that somebody will be held accountable for what a rights group says is a clear-cut war crime.…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 2, 2015

An Israeli artillery unit fires a shell toward the Gaza Strip from its position near the border, July 24, 2014. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Chronicle of a tragedy foretold in Gaza

If there’s one takeaway from the newly published Breaking the Silence report, it’s that the IDF is most certainly not the most moral army in the world. By Ido Even Paz Breaking the Silence member Idan Barir published an article during last summer’s Gaza war, in which he warned against the firing of artillery into…

By +972 Magazine May 5, 2015

Israeli soldiers standing in a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip during Operation Defensive Edge. (Courtesy of Breaking the Silence)

Gunning for destruction in Gaza: ‘You want to see people in pieces’

36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer’s Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted. In On Photography, the essayist Susan Sontag reflects on…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 4, 2015

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