A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023 [electronic resource].

Forensic Architecture Goldsmiths, University of London 2024

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Since the start of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in October 2023, Forensic Architecture has been collecting data related to attacks against civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure by the Israeli military. Our analysis of this conduct reveals the near-total destruction of civilian life in Gaza. We have also collected and analysed evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military directing Palestinian civilians to areas of Gaza designated as ‘safe’. These orders have resulted in the repeated, large-scale displacement of the Palestinian population across Gaza, often to areas which subsequently came under Israeli attack. Our findings indicate that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is organised, systematic, and intended to destroy conditions of life and life-sustaining infrastructure. To this end, ‘A Cartography of Genocide’ platform and accompanying report develops a comprehensive mapping of military conduct in Gaza since 7 October 2023. It deploys a range of methods to observe the ways in which Israel’s military operations engendered widespread harm and suggests how these observations might inform broader assessments of Israel’s military conduct during this period. We use here the term ‘genocide’ within the meaning developed by Raphael Lemkin, whose thinking behind this term was instrumental for the definition formulated in Article II of the Genocide Convention. Genocide, according to Lemkin, signifies a coordinated plan of actions aimed at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.
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Space (Architecture)
Border Security
Cartography
Imperialism
Drone aircraft
Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
Remote-sensing images
War
Military art and science

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Forensic Architecture
Eyal Weizman
Nour Abuzaid
Omar Ferwati
Davide Piscitelli
Samaneh Moafi
Joshua Richards
Peter Polack
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Lucia Rebolino
Andra Pop-Jurj
Shourideh C. Molavi
Natalia Sliwinska
Elliot Bourne
Robert Trafford
Robert Mackey
Elizabeth Breiner
Amina Darwish
Isabella Parlamis
Madeleine Griffiths
Agata Nguyen Chuong
Lola Conte
Imani Jacqueline Brown