On December 5, Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson published a long investigation into the work of Hebrew University of Jerusalem historian Lee Mordechai, who documents the war crimes committed by the Israeli army in Gaza. The first paragraph described an excerpt from a video of a soldier in the Gaza Strip rejoicing as a dog eats the remains of a corpse: "He took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses." The soldier then raises the camera and films a sunset over the enclave. This is just one scene from a report whose latest English-language version runs to 124 pages.

On December 18, the newspaper, founded in 1918, 30 years before Israel's creation, reported about the extrajudicial executions committed by Israeli soldiers in the Netzarim Corridor. This line, held by the army, cuts Gaza in two, separating the enclave's south, where most of the territory's Palestinians trying to escape Israeli bombings have fled, from the north, which continues to bear the brunt of strikes since the Hamas-led massacre on October 7, 2023. Over the months, the corridor has become a 7-kilometer-wide no man's land – a vast area under its control in a 40-kilometer-long territory.

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