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.”

Validating content in videos, photos, and publications about Gaza.

On December 26, 2023, Israelis says it 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 said 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.

Based on these Israeli actions, GLOSM/PARES has decided to treat all information found as "confirmed by viewing" as long as the Israelis do not allow anyone from outside, and who does have no relation to the parties involved, to verify it.
 

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 CIDI. 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.

ABOUT THE LOGO

The "G" stands for 'global', not Gaza. It was designed for us in 2014 when we wanted a logo that instanly tells on what GLOSM is focusing,

All our projects are self-funded. We do not run donation campaigns nor do we ask for donations. The website you're visiting is ... let us say .. on a middle class hosting package to keep the montly costs low.

You may think "Why not uploading to YouTube, Facebook or any other social media platform?"  The answer is a simple one: You may already one of many more people who either have published or publish videos about Gaza.

It is for these reasosn why we do not publish videos found on the internet. We record parts of our archives to make demo videos, which you can watch on this website. The video published on our website are collections of distracting and disinforming statements, as well as rhetoric, hasbara language, falsehoods, and abnormal Israeli behavior, an aspect that is rarely reported in the Western media.