Welcome to the Gaza documentation project

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 was video (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 explaining what history is. However, the most simple way to explain is by using the pictured images.

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

If you stretch out the whole film, you see a chronology of series 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 in a video editor.

Visualizing history goes just like this, meaning that you can imaginary history like a complete movie unless you cut it in 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 from a vacuum. There is always a main cause or root.

And so it is about Gaza.

Gaza was once the land of the Philistines, a people first described by the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. They were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age.

In 1994 the Israeli colonizers began a phased transfer of governmental authority in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority (PA) under the terms of the Oslo Accords that were signed by the colonizers and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

 

Before the Gaza "problem" emerged, the enclave was first part of the League Of Nations (predecessor of the UN) mandate of Palestine under British rule (watch video) after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

It came under Egypt's military rule after European colonists, migrants and settlers managed to drive the British out from the rest of Palestine in 1948.

Fifteen years later, Gaza became part of a problem that was also created by the British and the French like the Palestinian problem from 1916-1917

It all began with loosing the Suez Canal by France and Britain after the ten-president Gamal Abdel Nasser had nationalized it. The two countries wanted the strategically important canal back. They asked the Israelis for help. France would in return help them with the secret construction of the Dimona nuclear reactor.

So, the Israelis attacked Egypt by invading Gaza in 1956 and colonized it until 2005, not occupied as there where at least 21 permanent settlements in the enclave. The West Bank is also under colonization since 1967 as there are more than 100 permanent but illegal settlements.

In Gaza, a Israeli truck ramming of a car killing four Palestinians from Jabaliyah inside, and the way how the Israelis mishandled the case, triggered the first Intifada. A bloody crackdown by the colonizing armed forces have prompted colonized people to form a resistance, that we know as Hamas.

That's how it all started, not on October 7, 2023.

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

The Israeli crackdown of the First Intifada that inflamed the forming of Hamas, and the year in which the reisitance group was formed, 1987, has been systematically silenced as they expose, that "Hamas is a terrorist organization", is a lie.
 

What is this website?

Since October 7, 2023, there have been collected thousands of videos, photos, articles and documents and added to some hundred main and subfolders,

The naming of the labels of each of these folders are based on topics known in international law such as the Statue Of Rome, the Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Convention, and the Law Of Belligerent Occupation.

So, what we have done in Windows Explorer is also done here on the sidebar under Documentation and Additional.

Our interest is not political as we first did look at October 7th itself then its aftermath developments, which appears to show that 'October 7th' is intended to appear to happen to keep consequences, forthcoming from private related issues, away that the involved person is facing when the war is over.

Under Documentation, see

• All > October 7th > responsibility

• All > October 7th > responsibility > Netanyahu.

The information that we have collected but about October 7th itself was reason to focus only what is hidden behind consecutive developments following that day.

Thousands of collected videos were watched, and similar amount of photos and images viewed to see what are they showing and how they can be documented. That's how we came to more than hundred folders in Windows Explorer, and more than hundred menu items under Documentation and Additional on sidebar of this website.

Why this website?

There are so many websites found which are indeed about Palestine. A few are speciifically about Gaza but not in a way that could answer the question what is really unfolding in Gaza.

Yes, there a lot of views pointing to genocide or crimes against humanity, and recently even to crime of extermination. But, how do you make one them visible?

This website makes all three visible.

How to use this website ?

The sidebar contains 7 modules:

• Search

To search for a video or document, just type anything that has to do with Gaza, or you can type a date but this way: 20141119, to search for videos and/or documents from that date.

• The photo gallerie refers to doubts we have whether there will be ever a ICC trial as it is heavily dominated by US influence. Then, the ICC does not have the mandate to sentence convicts to death. The Nuremberg tribune had that mandate.

• The main menu with 3 submenus:

  • Click GLOSM/PARES to return to the home or frontpage.

  • Click 'Info about items in Documentation' to read information about some of the used categories

  • Click 'Back to portal site' which brings you to our main wesbite.

   

• The module 'Recently from archives (duplicates means related to more than one issue)' displays recently created pages with their content. However, the content comes from archives where photos, videos and documents are arranged by date. It should be noted that this website is launched in November 2024, that we also want to publish recent developments along with older ones. This results in mixed display of old(er) and new(er) developments in this module.

• Documentation & Additional

  • In the profession of documentation & archives, those who work in this field know that a photo or a video contains more information than what they initially are showing. So, how do you document? There are always details in a photo or video which dominates. For instance it shows a destroyed building that appears to be a residential building. Now, imagine that the photo or video also shows people under the rubble of the destroyed building. The documentation goes like this:

    destruction > civilian buildings > residential building.

  But, there were people in the building. The documentation would then be like this:

war crimes > killings > killing methods > people in buildings.

This way of documentation has a consequence ... or maybe not. There will be duplicates. However, you will always find one of these duplicates anywhere on the website.

Black arrows are pulldown menu.

'ALL' means latterly all videos, photos and documents in Documentation, Additional, and in menu items also marked with an arrow button.

When you click 'ALL' (so, not the arrow), it shows you all published photos, videos and documents, including duplicates. When you click the arrow button next to ALL, it opens another menu with more pulldown menus.