Israel's own footage of Gaza air strikes documents 'devastating' civilian harm

An analysis of hundreds of video clips released by the Israeli military has uncovered further evidence that Israeli air strikes on Gaza over the past year have been far from precise, leading to "devastating levels of civilian harm", a British war monitor says in a film released on Wednesday.

Airwars reviewed hours of footage of Israeli strikes on the enclave, geolocating them and matching them to incidents where Palestinians had publicly reported that civilians had been harmed.

In the first month of the war alone, Airwars said it found 17 incidents in which footage released by the Israeli military matched the exact location of where the monitor had documented civilians killed or wounded.

More than 400 Palestinian civilians, including more than 200 children, were reportedly killed in those 17 clips which represent 1 percent of all footage released in the past year, the organisation said in the film about their investigation.