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This page is a collection of IDF crimes of looting, burning and bombing, courtesy of Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi

Agoz Commando Forces On February 8, 2024 We’re here in a grocery store we raided,” one proclaims. Another soldier proceeds to mock the Muslim prayer rugs and garments in the store, throwing two of them on the ground and kicking them.
A reserve soldier from Owl Yanshuf Battalion published this on YouTube as part of his vlog in Gaza. He is seen displaying lingerie of Gaza women
Israeli sergeant from 101 paratrooper battalion “Getting some revenge & a training bike” he published from Abassan in Khan Younis, he is seen looting property & a soldier tells him “There are some who are looting” in which he responds “Yes”, the soldier replies “well done”
On 2 January، Israeli soldier from Givati brigade. “You have nowhere to return to Gazans, to all dear Gazans. You are not dear you are cheap. You’re homeless. homeless. We are going to make your lifes miserable…you are going to suffer every second.. You’re going to die.”
Same person as above Very disturbing video about wishing Gaza residents to burn alive
Israeli soldier from the 435th Infantry Battalion “Rotem“ published several pictures on 22 Dec showing him and another soldier leafing through a resident’s makeup and dresser also displaying lingerie belonging to women in Gaza.
This was once owned by Palestinian children. The IDF are taking pictures of themselves.
A YouTube channel named שמנמנים ונהנים, or “fatties having fun”, uploaded several videos showing Israeli soldiers setting fire from inside Palestinian homes.
Another image, posted to Instagram stories on 11 of January by Hamas Hunting Club shows a detainee blindfolded and with his hands tied behind a white plastic chair. The image is captioned, “He won’t sleep well…” describing the man seen in bad conditions
An Israeli soldier from Nahal Brigade published several pictures from Gaza city on 13 Jan one of them showed him burning money seemingly looted from a Palestinian home
Another soldier from the paratroopers brigade in Khan Younis published on 24 Feb about his brazen theft
Same soldier from New York, in one of the videos he is seen throwing money on detained and another poisoning a well
A soldier from New York serving in the 9213 battalion, Kfir brigade, which operates mainly in North West Bank, describes himself as an American documenting his journey in the IDF.

In a special shocking incident Israeli soldiers are seen planting bombs inside UNRWA Beit Hanoun medical clinic. Israeli army did not claim to have found any evidence of militant presence or tunnels under or inside the clinic whatsoever.

This is the officer torching homes
3 March 2024: Khan Younis | two weeks ago “Maybe we’ll take his teeth out?.. Because he’s Yeminite he has no teeth.. He needs to be without teeth” Credit translation: [@TalulaSha]
On 4 January, an Israeli sergeant-major from the Givati Brigade posted a story to his Instagram page showing the destruction of what appears to be the Minaret of a mosque. He captioned the video, in English, “THINGS TO DO WHEN THE CREW IS BORED IN A TANK IN GAZA ”
On December 22, a soldier from the parachute battalion in Khan Younis area, posted a photo on his social media account posing next to a block of residential housing on fire. In the same post, he included a video that shows him mocking the Muslim call to prayer on loud speakers
On 2 January, an IDF soldier in the Nahal Brigade posted a video showing soldiers elated at the destruction of a home by a bulldozer near the Burej Refugee Camp

On December 14, another soldier posted multiple images showing himself and other soldiers torching a beach resort in Gaza city

In an disturbing case, an Israeli military officer with a rank of a captain from the 8176 Battalion posted on her personal account what she described as destroying an entire neighbourhood where three of her soldiers were killed as a revenge.
A paratrooper in Khan Younis posted a portrait of himself with # “f*ckgaza” on 7 December, a day later he posted a video compilation containing an image of himself posing with a presumably looted bicycle and including a video of structures being destroyed by bulldozers
Paratrooper in Khan Younis
The Amalek problem didn’t stop despite being brought up to the ICJ. In a Feb 14 Facebook post, a sergant from the Netsach Yehuda battalion in the West Bank wrote, “There is no mercy for the cruel! To continue until we fulfil the mitzvah to eliminate the seed of Amalek! To destroy them forever”
Among the most notable footage of destruction is a video featured in a December 26, 2023 video posted on TikTok by a Lt. Colonel of the 924th Combat Engineering Corps, Harel Brigade. The video shows multiple scenes of military operations in Beit Hanoun, a town in the northern Gaza Strip. The video was posted two days after the Israeli army withdrew from the area on December 24, 2023. The video lasts for four and a half minutes and contains multiple scenes of residential neighbourhoods and houses being demolished. Edited in are clips from Al Jazeera, where local residents described the aftermath of the operation as “a ghost town” and “an earthquake”
During an article The GreyZone worked at, a fellow journo sent to the Israeli military a request for comment on social media posts by their soldiers incl tweet below. They replied “it will been put under review”. Now after 2 week, same Israeli soldier in Hebron published this yesterday [6 March]
“That’s what the war is about” An American in the Israeli military posted a video where he can be seen proudly displaying temple mount patches all over his uniform. He says that this is what they are fighting for Calling for the destruction of al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Israeli soldier from Khan Younis : “It’s a really hard situation here. The humanitarian conditions, no one is left here. You can see here all the ruins from our shooting. This is Shati RC. I mean some blocks are still standing, it can still be taken care of”
from Khan Younis. Israeli soldier: “WE ARE HERE IN KHAN YOUNIS. I AM AN EXCAVATION WORKER TIDYING UP A BIT. RESHAPING THE PLACE. PUSHING THIS HOUSE THAT WAY, MOVE THAT HOUSE THAT WAY”
Hebron | “MAY YOUR VILLAGE B*RN!” Israeli soldiers (7 of whom are identified) from the 5060th reserve battalion last November chanting on a bus in Hebron calling for Palestinian villages to burn.
West Bank | weeks ago. New documentation emerge of Israeli occupation soldiers humiliating and kidnapping Palestinians, including children

West Bank: New documentation emerge of Israeli occupation soldiers humiliating and kidnapping Palestinians, including children

An image from a December 2023 post on the Hamas Hunting Club Instagram account (faces obscured in original). This image was deleted prior to publication.
With @ytirawi, Bellingcat have found IDF soldiers’ social accounts that raise concerns about the treatment of detainees. We found content showing men blindfolded and bound, draped in flags and soldiers appearing to throw US money at those being held.
A soldier from the 202nd Paratroopers Reserve, posted photos and videos of himself detaining Palestinians, presumably from Jabalia refugee camp, last month. He wrote “IDF will f*ck Gaza” on Israeli military vehicles & shared an image of this on his account
A soldier from the 202nd Paratroopers Reserve, posted photos and videos of himself detaining Palestinians, presumably from Jabalia refugee camp, last month. He wrote “IDF will f*ck Gaza” on Israeli military vehicles & shared an image of this on his account
A soldier from the 202nd Paratroopers Reserve, posted photos and videos of himself detaining Palestinians, presumably from Jabalia refugee camp, last month. He wrote “IDF will f*ck Gaza” on Israeli military vehicles & shared an image of this on his account