The PARES documentation

Let us begin with something that everyone knows, or maybe not everyone, as current generations did not grow up in an era when there was no video but celluloid. And even then, when there were videos (VHS and Betamax), there was no YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, TikTok, or Instagram. The first Internet video hosting site was ShareYourWorld.com, founded in 1997.

There are many definitions of history. However, the simplest way to explain it is to use the pictured images.

A celluloid film consists of a series of frames. Each frame is part of a scene, which, in return, may be part of a series of scenes. They all together form what is called a sequence. So, a movie is built up by a series of sequences.

If you watch the whole film, you will see a chronology of frames, scenes, and sequences. In today's video technology, you don't need to stretch the movie. It's already done while you load it into a video editor.

Visualizing history is similar to this, meaning that you can imagine history as a complete movie unless you cut it into pieces to remove frames, scenes, or even a whole sequence that you don't want people to watch.

Like every movie, any event must have a beginning, as nothing happens in a vacuum. There is always a main cause or root, which always lies in the very past.

And so it is about Gaza.

According to the online encyclopedia, the Arab countries were challenging each other: who would be THE Arab leader in the region?

The position would only be gained when any Arab leader has as much public support as possible. Nasser would do this by blocking all shipping lines from passing the Strait of Tiran to Eilat 

The Israelis reacted by warning the Egyptian president that the blocking would indefinitely be a casus belli, while the waterway is part of Egypt's territory. The Israelis started the war in June 1967, which also included an offensive on Egyptian troops in Gaza.

When the enclave was seized, the Israelis colonized it, not occupied it, as there were at least 21 permanent settlements in the enclave. The West Bank has also been under colonization since 1967, as there are more than 100 permanent but illegal settlements.

On the right, a 4-minute video clip in which we put in chronological order how it all started to happen. We have given the clip the title "From the war in June to the First Gaza War", and it shows just the beginning of what is going to happen in 2025: the extermination of the existence of life in Gaza..

The existence of Hamas is by the Israelis themselves. The group didn't emerge out of the blue.

The Israeli crackdown of the First Intifada that inflamed the forming of Hamas, and the year in which the resistance group was formed in 1987, has been systematically silenced, as "Hamas is a terrorist organization" is delegitimizing the Law of Belligerent Occupation.

The United Nations has designated Hamas as a political movement while its armed wings are within the Law of Belligerent Occupation, which states that occupied people have the right to form armed groups to resist occupation. But Hamas is branded a "terrorist organization" on religionized and ideological grounds.

Members of Hamas have the full right to resist the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank. If they take and use that right, they must distinguish themselves from the civilian population, or based on articles 43 & 44 of the Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, at least carry their weapons openly during attacks and deployments.

Israelis are alien to the region as they descend from European migrants, settlers, and colonists, while the current population is from around the world living on a land surrounded by countries where people have been there for centuries.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or race. It involves acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, the group. These acts can include killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, imposing measures to prevent births, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

DEFINITION
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• Killing members of the group;

• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Elements of the crime
The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. The latter is less common but still possible. The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.

The popular understanding of what constitutes genocide tends to be broader than the content of the norm under international law. Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:

• A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and

• A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

  • Killing members of the group

  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

  • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

The intent is the most difficult element to determine. To constitute genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. It is this special intent, or dolus specialis, that makes the crime of genocide so unique. In addition, case law has associated intent with the existence of a State or organizational plan or policy, even if the definition of genocide in international law does not include that element.

Importantly, the victims of genocide are deliberately targeted - not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention (which excludes political groups, for example). This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals. Genocide can also be committed against only a part of the group, as long as that part is identifiable (including within a geographically limited area) and “substantial.”

We found this message on Netanyahu's X-account:

However, we are familiar with hasbara, the political language that the Israeli leadership uses to mislead the public, as it means, "We are going to free Gaza from its people." It is completely in line with the views the two terror ministers, Bezallel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who are advocating for months, that the Palestinians must "voluntarily" leave Gaza.

Conflation is the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one. In the context of the Israelis, if not everyone who supports them, it is the merging of ideas about and against the Palestinians into one.

Hardline Israelis resorting to the view that people in Gaza have voted for Hamas, so they are all Hamas, or are saying "There are no innocent civilians [in Gaza]." This widely used doctrine allows Netanyahu to kill unhindered in a brazen manner babies, children, man and women, the elderly, doctors, nurses, first responders, while killing journalists is also part of an utmost pornographic stylish information war. The version used by the armed belligerent is: "Treat everyone and everything that moves and not move as Hamas."

In Gaza, Netanyahu is just waging an ideological war.

Misinformation and disinformation involving the distribution of false, inaccurate or otherwise misleading information has been a prominent and ubiquitous feature of the Gaza war. Much of the content has been viral in nature, spreading online with tens of millions of posts in circulation on social media. A variety of sources, including American, British and German government officials as well as Israeli and pro-Israeli media outlets, and social media influencers, mainly across Europe, UK and the US, have contributed to the spread of these inaccuracies and falsehoods.

During the "conflict," the Israeli war belligerent mainly by means of its unit 8200 and Israeli cyber companies have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) tools and bot farms to spread disinformation and graphic, emotionally charged and false propaganda to dehumanize Palestinians, sow division among supporters of Palestine, and exert pressure on politicians to support Israel's actions. The Intercept reported that: "At the center of Israel’s information warfare campaign is a tactical mission to dehumanize Palestinians and to flood the public discourse with a stream of false, unsubstantiated, and unverifiable allegations."

One such covert campaign was commissioned by Israel's Ministry of "Diaspora Affairs." The ministry allocated about $2 million to the operation, and used political marketing firm Stoic based in Tel Aviv to carry it out, according officials and documents reviewed by the New York Times. 

The campaign was started after the October 7 attack, and remained active on X (formerly Twitter) at the time of the New York Times report in June 2024. At the peak of the campaign it used hundreds of fake accounts posing as Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments, focusing on U.S. lawmakers, particularly those who are Black and from the Democratic Party, including Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader from New York, and Raphael Warnock, Senator from Georgia. ChatGPT was deployed to generate many of the posts.

The campaign also involved the creation of three fake English-language news sites featuring pro-Israel articles. In November 2024, a report by a United Nations (UN) committee noted that Western social media companies disproportionately removed content showing solidarity with the Palestinian people relative to content promoting violence against Palestinians.

On December 26, 2023, Israelis says they will no longer grant automatic visas to UN employees, accusing the United Nations of being “complicit partners in Hamas's tactics.” However, the Israelis have been viewing the United Nations as a threat long before there was an "October 7th."

The Israelis took the measure to prevent the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva from carrying out an investigation on claims that civilian female internees, not hostages, were raped by Hamas. They also forbid Israeli doctors to speak with UN investigators, while the Israeli police claimed that it could find no victims or witnesses of rape.

The Israeli army have banned the entry of international journalists to Gaza since October, 2023. The measure was taken to protect itself from scrutiny and accountability.

On June 6, 2024, UNRWA called on the war belligerent to allow international journalists to report from Gaza. It said that the measure is unprecedented in any other conflict in modern history. It is a ban on the truth, facts, and a perfect recipe to fuel disinformation.

On August 21, 2025, Netanyahu said in a video adress: "“We must do something about social media algorithms." 

Based on these Israeli actions, the Gaza Documentation treats all Israeli and pro-Israeli information found at least as deliberately produced disinformation
 

Gaza and the West Bank form together the State of Palestine, despite political differences between Hamas and Fatah.

Occupation is defined by international law as a temporary state of affairs, and the occupying power does not gain sovereignty over the territory.

More explained: Art. 42 of The Hague Convention states that a territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the (foreign) hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised. Acquire the territory by force entails the exercise of sovereignty over occupied territory, thus modifying the status quo ante, which is inconsistent with occupation law.

However, there is no situation of occupation in the West Bank. The Israelis have been annexing the West Bank in a slow-paced manner since the end of the 1967 war. With their E1 strategy, they even want to split the West Bank to make a two-state solution impossible.

The Israelis are obligated to maintain public order, respect existing domestic laws and public services, and ensure the safety and welfare of the local population.

The so-called "security pact" between the Israeli occupying belligerent and the occupied power, the Palestinian Authority, is obsolete, as paragraph 2a in Article XIII of the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (a.k.a. “Oslo II”) states,

"Israel shall have the overriding responsibility for security; for the purpose of protecting Israelis and confronting the threat of terrorism."

But, collected videos shown in the demo are proving that public disorder and terrorism are by those who were illegally transferred from colonized historic Palestine to the West Bank. They have even been assisted by the armed occupying belligerent. The latter is only maintaining 'security' for those who are illegally in the West Bank thus for the benefit of its military and political interest. That already is a war crime as the political leadership and the armed leadership are still a war belligerent since their declaration of war in 1967.

It should be reminded that the Israeli annexing power, not an occupying power, is de facto a foreign hostile power, as they originated from European Zionist migrants who started all this in 1947.

In the Netherlands, we have a so-called Center of Information & Documentation Israel, or CIDI, who claims to be "independent."

Well, you can't be "independent" when you have a website filled with pro-Israeli information, and tell half of the story. You can't be "independent" when you misuse, if not exploit, the holocaust and WWII, as that is what the Israelis do since the 1950s.

GLOSM/PARES is CIDI's counterpart, and may be the only one in the Netherlands who brings out what hasn't been told nor shared by Israelis and those who supports them. How is that?

"GLOSM/PARES" is an abbreviation that is easy to remember. However, the official name is GLOSM/PARES Documentation, which operates in the same manner GLOSM is doing but about Palestine.

GLOSM is a research entity operating in the field of human research. It monitors, collect, documents and archives developments forthcoming as a result of interference in the continuation of the existence of life of people (i.e. tiranny, dictatorship, autoritarian and autocratic ruling.).

PARES is doing similar but about the ending of the continuation of existence of life of the Palestinians.

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