# Bear Witness to Gaza #palestine ## A Massive Database of Evidence, Compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel's War Crimes in Gaza A woman with a child is shot while waving a white flag ■ Starving girls are crushed to death in line for bread ■ A cuffed 62-year-old man is run over, evidently by a tank ■ An aerial strike targets people trying to help a wounded boy ■ A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza The PDF below is the work of an Israeli citizen and historian who decided to document the Gaza War. He explains why: > *I, Lee Mordechai, a historian and an Israeli citizen, bear witness in this document, as events are unfolding, to the horrible situation in the Gaza Strip. I write my personal opinion out of a sense of double responsibility: as a citizen whose country is committing what I consider as grave crimes, and as an academic, who believes that after having dedicated my career so far to research and teaching others I am obliged to speak up against injustice, especially when it is so close. I write also because of the long disappointing general silence on this issue among many international and Israeli academic institutions, especially those that are well-positioned to comment on it. The relatively few of my colleagues who had bravely spoken out early in the war were an inspiration. > > I do not believe this document will convince many others to change their minds. Rather, I write this publicly to bear witness to the events I observe and testify that during the war there were and remain Israeli voices who strongly dissented from Israel’s actions. I preserve the previous versions of this document to demonstrate how much was known even at early stages of the war."* ## PDF Document ![[Bearing-witness-to-the-Israel-Gaza-War-v6.5.5-5.12.24.pdf]] ## Comment To be written