How Forensic Architecture Mapped the Gaza Genocide

Images and reconstructed bomb clouds from 1 Aug 2014 are arranged within a 3D model of Rafah, Gaza. (Forensic Architecture, 2015)

Forensic Architecture is a research agency that investigates state violence and environmental destruction.

It uses a combination of open source information and what it calls ‘situated testimony’ to reconstruct events that states worldwide wants obscured, from Israel to the UK and from the Mediterranean to Ukraine.

In doing so, it has invented a whole new discipline of investigation.

On Novara FM, FA’s Assistant Director of Research, Samaneh Moafi, tells Eleanor Penny about its investigations from the killing of Hind Rajab, to the Grenfell Tower fire, the spraying of herbicides onto Gaza, and the killing of Mark Duggan, as well as its new report A Cartography of Genocide on the ongoing Gaza Genocide.

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