How Israel uses architecture to exert control | Middle East Eye –
May 2023

In this episode of The Big Picture, we sit down with architect and investigator Eyal Weizman to talk about how Israel uses urban planning to expand its control of the occupied West Bank, and why he decided to start a crime-fighting team of architects, journalists, and coders called Forensic Architecture to hold governments to account.

#ForensicArchitecture #Architecture #ToolsOfOccupation #Apartheid #Occupation

Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura - Forensic Architecture - May 2023

Commissioned by Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, this investigation reveals new evidence about massacres conducted in the Palestinian village of Tantura by Israeli forces after its occupation on 22-23 May 1948 and subsequent depopulation. Launched on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, it brings together testimonies and photographic evidence to locate several mass graves in which the victims were buried—including one previously unidentified.

Uprooted Palestinians Demand to End Desecration of Mass Graves in the Destroyed Village of Tantura - Adalah –

#Palestine #Genocide #WarCrimes #Nakba #Apartheid #EthnicCleansing #Tantura #MassGraves #Villages #Adalah #ForensicArchitecture

🇵🇸 The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza

As Israel’s bombing campaign continues in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis deepens to catastrophic levels, the #Biden administration has not wavered in its support for Israel.

United States (#US) weapons transfers - from 2,000-pound bombs to artillery shells and tanks - have been a crucial part of the Israeli military campaign.

Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza to profile three families as they try to survive the war.

Together with #Airwars, FL also investigated an air strike on December 11 in north Gaza in which more than 100 people from the same family were killed.FL partnered with #ForensicArchitecture and #Earshot to investigate that attack.

From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in #Gaza and the role of the United States in the war.

Credits, Gaza journalists & production crew: Hussien Jaber, Motasem Abu Aser, Bilal Salem, Soliman Alfarra

#Genocide #Documentary