Forensic Architecture

The Israeli military’s weaponisation of aid and starvation to displace and destroy Palestinian society will not stop as long as Israel controls aid distribution. Our latest analysis shows how Israel imposed a deadly aid system through GHF ration stations, while dismantling a proven civilian-led model, to concentrate Palestinians in Rafah and push Gazan society toward collapse. The following findings are based on image and data analysis from 18 Mar - 11 Jul: 🔸 Just 4 GHF stations have been established in Rafah and central Gaza to distribute aid to over 2m Palestinians, some of whom are a 6 hr roundtrip from their nearest site. 🔸 An assessment of official GHF announcements revealed that after 19 June, their ration sites were open an average of only 10 mins/day, with just 17 mins advanced warning about opening times. 🔸 The limited number of aid distribution sites and limited access to those locations has forced civilians to relocate to areas further south closer to these sites. 🔸 GHF ration stations are located within militarised areas and supplied by the same routes used by the Israeli military to supply their bases. 🔸 We geolocated 15+ attacks near GHF stations. 🔸 Under the previous model, aid was successfully distributed by agencies like WFP and UNWRA through a UN-coordinated delivery system with ~400 locations across Gaza. From Oct '23-Oct '24, FA documented over 322 Israeli attacks on food infrastructure, aid personnel, and civilians seeking aid. 🔸 What few aid trucks enter Gaza are intercepted by gangs or desperate civilians, due to Israeli attacks on the security forces tasked with protecting these convoys. When local family clans temporarily took over this protective responsibility, in so doing successfully facilitating aid delivery and distribution, Israel closed down Zikim Crossing and falsely identified the community-led effort as a Hamas looting. 🔸 Under Israel’s militarised GHF model, starving Palestinians are killed wherever they try to receive aid or seek treatment for malnutrition. This is continuous with patterns we documented from Oct '23-Sept '24 of repeated Israeli attacks on civilians seeking aid. Read more @ link in bio.

In honour of Nakba Day (May 15), I’m sharing this vital investigation “Return to al-Ma’in” by Forensic Architecture and the Palestine Land Society, founded by my great-uncle Salman Abu Sitta. Using situated testimony and 3D modeling, this collaboration digitally reconstructs his birthplace, al-Ma’in, uncovering the rich agricultural history of our family’s land and documenting its 1948 destruction by Zionist forces. Through preserving these memories, we witness a continuous story of survival and resistance as we keep fighting for liberation. @palestine_land_society @forensicarchitecture

Join us on 26 May in the Shireen Abu Akleh Theatre at @goldsmithsuol for a discussion between co-founders of the Counter Academy for Arab Journalism, Lina Attalah and Hala Droubi, joined by Christina Varvia (Centre for Research Architecture) and Samaneh Moafi (Forensic Architecture), moderated by Omid Montazeri (Journalist, BBC). ➡ Link in bio to register for the event. Together, they will reflect on the urgent need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to knowledge-making. The conversation will trace the evolution of the Counter Academy, which was established in 2018 in response to the growing demands of independent newsrooms in countries like Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon over the years following the Arab Spring. Today the Counter Academy trains a new generation of journalists and researchers working at the intersection of the social sciences, humanities, and journalism. Students learn how to recognise when an event comes crashing into a pre-established history, and when the self meets the other in the vast and chaotic fields of reporting. They also learn how to critically approach tools of truth-telling, from reconstructive technologies and archives to testimonials and the simple act of witnessing. The discussion will draw connections between the pedagogical and investigative practices of the Counter Academy, the Centre for Research Architecture, and Forensic Architecture, all of which blend, reappropriate, and expand upon methods from diverse fields in order to confront official narratives and critically examine the social and political conditions of our time.

Namibia’s colonial history is not remote. It is a lens through which to understand the unresolved histories which define the contemporary world – and Germany’s place within them. Through spatial analysis, satellite imagery, environmental modelling, archival research, and digital reconstruction, Fractured Lifeworlds explores how ‘green energy’ projects are reproducing colonial continuities, exposing the tensions between ‘green transition’ narratives and unresolved colonial injustices. Fractured Lifeworlds An exhibition featuring Ovaherero and Nama Claims for Intergenerational Justice From 6. June 2026 - 30. April 2027 More information via the link in bio.

Yesterday at the Fire Brigades Union @fbunational annual conference 2026 — presenting our report with Forensic Architecture @forensicarchitecture for Palestine Red Crescent Society @palestineredcrescent into the Israeli executions of Palestinian aid workers on 23 March, 2025. Emergency workers standing with emergency workers. Read the full investigation: (link in bio) #firefightersforpalestine

Today Wednesday May 13th at 7PM BST, we will be broadcasting a live discussion from Forensic Architecture (FA), marking the launch of FA Director & Professor Eyal Weizman’s forthcoming book, Ungrounding. Eyal Weizman will speak on the research that informs his book, departing from FA’s work with the South African legal team on the genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice and locating the genocide within a century-long history of the Southwestern coast of Palestine. This discussion will be followed by a conversation with Başak Ertür (Reader in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths), Suhail Malik (Programme Co-Director MFA Fine Art and Reader in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths), Matthew Fuller (Professor of Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths), and Nour Abuzaid (Senior Researcher at Forensic Architecture), moderated by Susan Schuppli (Director and Professor in the Centre for Research Architecture).

This truly landmark book – UNGROUNDING: The Architecture of Genocide by Eyal Weizman – publishes today. Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. As director of the organisation Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers document acts of state crimes and human rights violations around the world. Since 2023, the group has worked to produce evidence for the International Court of Justice’s genocide case against Israel. In this revelatory new project, Weizman draws on that research to bring us on an eye-opening journey across time and into the ‘deep cartography’ of the area extending from Gaza’s subterranean tunnels through to its militarised topography, its unique soil, settlements and barriers. He catalogues, in unflinching and forensic detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unliveable. Taking us through the broader geographic and historical context, from the Nakba in 1948 to the present day, UNGROUNDING establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide. Deeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision, and illustrated with dozens of original images, maps and diagrams, UNGROUNDING is an essential document of atrocity in our time. ‘UNGROUNDING by Eyal Weizman proves that decolonisation is not revenge but a condition for justice and, in the end, for the liberation of both Palestinians and Israelis’ FRANCESCA ALBANESE (@francesca.albanese.unsr.opt ) ‘Urgent and essential reading’ DAVID WENGROW ‘Extraordinary’ ILAN PAPPÉ (@ilan.pappe ) ‘Ultimately lays the foundations for an architecture of liberation’ TAREQ BACONI @eyal_weizman @forensicarchitecture @vintagebooks @aitkenalexander

We're looking to work with a dynamic, strategic, and values‑aligned Development Lead! The Development Lead will play a pivotal role in establishing our individual giving and donor engagement programme at a critical moment of organisational growth. This interim, six‑month role will focus on building the foundations for a sustainable and diversified individual donor base, cultivating supporters inspired by FA’s work across a range of giving levels. This role is available at 0.6 or 0.8 FTE over the initial six‑month period and is intended as an interim position to lay the groundwork for a longer‑term role. 💡 Click the link in our bio for more info and to apply! Deadline for applications: 16:00 BST, Thursday, 21 May 2026.

Fractured Lifeworlds Ovaherero and Nama Claims for Intergenerational Justice 6. June 2026 - 30. April 2027 Between 1884 and 1915, German colonial forces carried out genocides against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia. Ovaherero and Nama descendant communities, and the land their ancestors inhabited, are still living with that history, through altered environments, stolen territories, and inequalities that have outlasted the colonial period by more than a century. Fractured Lifeworlds is an investigation into that inheritance. The exhibition – developed over four years by @forensis.berlin and @forensicarchitecture , in collaboration with researchers, descendant communities, oral historians, Indigenous scholars, and activists in Namibia and Germany – explores the legacy of Germany’s brutal colonization of southwest Africa (1884-1915), offering an account of ancestral lifeworlds lost to colonial violence. An exhibition and public program unfolding at @spore.initiative over three seasons. Including contributions by @tuliphoenix , @xamques and more. More information via the link in bio.

Join us on 13 May for a discussion at Goldsmiths, University of London marking the launch of FA Director and Professor Eyal Weizman’s forthcoming book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide. Our director will speak on the research that informs his book, departing from our team’s work with the South African legal team on the genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice and locating the genocide within a century-long history of the Southwestern coast of Palestine. This discussion will be followed by a conversation with Başak Ertür (Reader in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths), Suhail Malik (Programme Co-Director MFA Fine Art and Reader in Critical Studies at Goldsmiths), Matthew Fuller (Professor of Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths), Nour Abuzaid (Senior Researcher at Forensic Architecture), and Kodwo Eshun (Lecturer in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths), moderated by Susan Schuppli (Director and Professor in the Centre for Research Architecture). Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide examines Gaza’s ‘deep cartography’, from subterranean tunnels and militarised topography, to its unique soil, settlements, and barriers. Within broader geographic and historical context, from the Nakba to present day, the book documents Israeli campaigns of displacement and destruction that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unliveable. The event will take place in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, beginning at 7pm, followed by a reception with light refreshments and a book table operated by @wordbookshop This event is free and open to the public. RSVP at the link in our bio.

An in-depth interview with Eyal Weizman, author of UNGROUNDING and director of Forensic Architecture, now online at the OBSERVER. UNGROUNDING will publish on 7 May 2026. @aitkenalexander @vintagebooks

From acclaimed architect and investigator Eyal Weizman comes UNGROUNDING, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel’s destruction of Gaza. Illustrated with dozens of original images, maps, and diagrams, the book takes us on an eye-opening journey into the “deep cartography," chronicling Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unlivable. Architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between colonizer and colonized, and UNGROUNDING is an urgent contribution to understanding one of the most pressing humanitarian crises of our time. On sale July 14.