Nahum Barnea, chief analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said that the Israeli army committed unjustified acts of looting and demolition that affected Palestinian homes in Gaza.

He said that these practices cause enormous harm to Israel and are being used against it before the International Court of Justice.

He wrote in an article for the newspaper, “In one case, an order was issued to demolish one house in a neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip. A senior commander ordered the destruction of all the houses not because he had to, but because he could issue the demolition order.”

He added: "The decision to bomb the Legislative Council building in Gaza (the interim parliament) did not please the Israeli army staff. It was issued by a field commander, and had no practical justification, and the damage was great."

He pointed out that Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy acknowledged that looting had occurred.

The analyst said: “The Chief of Staff makes sure, in every visit to the field, to remind the commanders and soldiers of what is not permissible, and he talks about looting, breaking discipline, and unnecessary writing on the walls.”

He added, "Some leaders did not like this conversation and told him that it might harm morale."

Barnea also pointed out that “Israeli soldiers captured video clips,” which document Israeli atrocities and could be evidence condemning Tel Aviv’s practices.

He said: “An investigator in Unit 504 took a photo while standing over a naked detainee,” adding: “An officer was filmed shouting ‘Listen to Israel’ (which is an Israeli prayer) as he blew up a mosque.”

Barnea warned that the harm being caused to Israel is enormous, pointing to the use of some of these videos in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel in the International Court of Justice.

He said: "The damage is enormous. Israel is waging its war from a storefront, facing a suspicious, hostile and exposed world as never before." He also warned that these practices would affect Israel itself.

He pointed out that "what begins with the looting of abandoned property leads to the theft of enemy military equipment and then to the theft of military equipment for our forces."

Israel is being tried before the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body in the United Nations, on charges of committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The war in the Gaza Strip has entered its 133rd day, as Israeli forces continue to bomb the Strip, and clashes continue on more than one axis, while the specter of a humanitarian catastrophe looms over Rafah, which awaits an Israeli military operation, coinciding with the negotiations in Egypt regarding a truce and the release of prisoners and hostages.