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“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza

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In this piece Bellingcat investigates IDF unit 8219 Commando’s demolitions of buildings in Gaza.

Through an intereactive story we take our readers on a journey following IDF engineering unit 8219 as they demolish buildings across Gaza as part of the Israeli offensive launched in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks.

This piece lays out side-by-side the open source evidence we found about each incident including videos, satellite images, soldier’s testimonies and other data.

In line with Bellingcat’s core value of transparency and oppenness we include as much detail as possible about how we found something out so our readers and viewers can replicate and check our work.