JO Investigation: Massive Gaza Archive Targeting Israelis is Being Run by "American" in Saudi Arabia
Anonymous operator calls Americans "complicit in genocide," urges U.S. soldiers to refuse orders, feeds an alleged Hezbollah front group—while operating from kingdom dependent on U.S.-Israeli security
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Key Findings:
An anonymous operator claiming to be American but based in Saudi Arabia runs one of the largest Gaza “war crimes” archives—82,000+ videos and images—whose authenticity and chain of custody remain unverified.
The operator feeds purported evidence to the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation, which has been linked to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
Despite claiming American identity, the operator calls Americans “complicit in genocide,” urges U.S. soldiers to disobey orders, and demands U.S. officials stand trial at The Hague.
The operation runs from Saudi Arabia—a kingdom that has received extensive U.S. and Israeli security assistance, including protection during the 2026 Iran conflict.
The archive’s sophisticated infrastructure—dual websites, 2.4 terabytes of torrents, encrypted submissions, Icelandic privacy protection—suggests resources beyond typical grassroots activism.
The operator’s language shifted from singular “I” to plural “we,” raising questions about who is actually running the operation and whether it represents a coordinated network.
Introduction
An anonymous operator claiming to be American, but running from Saudi Arabia, has built one of the largest online archives purporting to document alleged “Israeli war crimes” in Gaza, a Jewish Onliner investigation has found. The collection, which includes more than 82,000 videos and images, remains unverified. Its authenticity, context, and chain of custody are largely unverifiable. Yet the archive is being used to target Israeli soldiers and officials by funneling the supposed evidence to terror-linked organizations pursuing cases at the International Criminal Court.
The operation aggressively promotes anti-American messaging, calls the U.S. “complicit in genocide,” and has called for American officials to be sent to The Hague. Over time, the account has also shifted from speaking as an individual to presenting itself as a collective operation, moving from “I” to “we” as its infrastructure expanded.
The shift raises basic questions about who is actually behind the project, how it is being resourced, and why a large archive targeting Israelis and feeding international legal campaigns is being run from inside Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Location Confirmed by X Device Telemetry
The operation, branding itself “Israel Exposed — War Crimes Archive,” runs two identical websites—archivegenocide.com and watermeloncrimes.com—that deploy simultaneously from the same codebase and claim to forward footage to the ICC, the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation, and South Africa’s legal team at the International Court of Justice.
X’s own device telemetry confirms the operator of the main account, @xIsraelExposedx, is based in Saudi Arabia, with the platform’s intelligence panel showing “Connected via: Saudi Arabia Android App.”
Claims American Identity While Targeting U.S. Military
The operator has openly acknowledged the Saudi location multiple times, writing in November 2024, “I’m american and I moved to Saudi Arabia” and “Also hey, also in Saudi. Good to see more of us on twitter.”
Yet despite claiming American identity, in March 2026, the operator posted a graphic urging U.S. military personnel to disobey orders, writing “You do not have to partake in war crimes for Israel.” The post directed soldiers to the GI Rights Hotline and accumulated over 240,000 views.
The account has also declared Americans collectively guilty of genocide, writing in June 2026, “It doesnt matter what you want, you are still legally complicit in genocide.” Days later, the operator stated, “The correct thing to do is call out the genocide we are complicit in”—using the first-person plural “we” to refer to Americans while operating from Saudi territory.
In July 2025, the account called then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “a war criminal” who “should be at the Hague.” More recently, in June 2026, the operator wrote, “Anything Israel and the US touch is corrupted.”
From “I” to “We”
The operation’s presentation has evolved in ways that suggest deliberate image-crafting: early posts used singular first-person language—”what am I missing?” and “I’m just in Saudi”—while the official X profile and website now exclusively use collective plural framing: “We archive & publish Israeli war crimes,” “our team,” and “our researchers.”
This linguistic shift from individual to collective occurred as the operation expanded from an X account created in October 2024 to a full web infrastructure launched in June 2025. The account’s bio now describes a group operation, stating “We are a group of researchers dedicated to archiving war crimes footage from Gaza and the West Bank.”
Feeding Evidence to Alleged Hezbollah Front
The Hind Rajab Foundation, which the archive claims to supply with evidence, faces widespread allegations of serving as a Hezbollah front organization.
Founded in September 2024 by Dyab Abou Jahjah and Karim Hassoun, the Brussels-based NGO has filed complaints with the ICC naming over 1,000 Israeli soldiers and pursued legal cases in at least 12 countries. Abou Jahjah claimed in a 2003 New York Times interview that he “joined the Hezbollah resistance against Israel” and “had some military training, I’m still very proud of that.” In a 2024 eulogy for Hassan Nasrallah, Jahjah claimed he met the Hezbollah leader in 2001.
According to information provided by Israeli security officials to the Jerusalem Post in February 2025, Abou Jahjah is linked by family and business ties to actors designated as part of Hezbollah’s terror funding network and is included on the U.S. government’s “No Fly” list. Over 1,000 cases have been filed against Israeli soldiers across the globe,” a source told The Jerusalem Post.
Operating From Saudi Kingdom Protected by U.S.-Israeli Security
That a Saudi-based operator claiming American identity channels evidence to an organization with alleged Hezbollah connections while urging U.S. soldiers to refuse orders creates a striking irony: Saudi Arabia has received extensive U.S. and Israeli security assistance, particularly during the 2026 Iran conflict.
During Operation Epic Fury—the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran that began February 28, 2026—American and Israeli forces struck Iranian military infrastructure that had directly threatened Saudi Arabia. Iran had attacked a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia on March 27, 2026, injuring at least 15 American service members. Israeli strikes during the campaign dismantled much of Iran’s arsenal, eliminating threats to Gulf monarchies including Saudi Arabia.
Beyond direct military operations, Israel reportedly supplied Saudi Arabia’s F-15SA program with advanced pilot gear, including helmet-mounted cueing systems and night-vision goggles, through U.S.-backed defense channels. The reported sale is notable because Riyadh and Jerusalem still lack formal diplomatic ties.
Sophisticated Infrastructure Suggests Significant Resources
The infrastructure behind the archive operation reveals resources and technical sophistication uncommon in individual activism.
Both domains—watermeloncrimes.com, registered June 4, 2025, and archivegenocide.com, registered July 1, 2026—share identical Cloudflare nameservers, the same BunnyCDN media delivery zone (agenocidecdn.b-cdn.net), and last-modified timestamps that match to the exact second, confirming a single operator deploying updates to both sites simultaneously. The Downloads page offers 2.4 terabytes of video archives distributed via cryptographically signed torrents hosted on Distributed Denial of Secrets, a transparency collective modeled after WikiLeaks.
The operation maintains strong operational security: no Google Analytics or tracking pixels, Icelandic privacy protection on domain registrations, Cloudflare proxying to hide origin servers, and a Telegram channel for footage submissions.
The operator appears to run a YouTube channel that claims to be U.S.-based, as well as a Substack newsletter. The operator also runs a Discord server with nearly 3,000 members, where their community likely coordinates the operation.
Growing Archive, Unresolved Questions
The operation’s growth continues. As of publication, archivegenocide.com displays a notice that the group is “actively adding the rest of our archives.” The site offers geolocation data, a live map with “minute-to-minute updates,” a searchable index, and a curated list of over 300 “journalists” and social media sources, including members of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations.
Its shift from individual posts written in the first person to an expansive web operation speaking in terms of “we” suggests something more complex than the grassroots project it presents itself as. That impression is reinforced by its multi-platform presence, technical infrastructure, and growing archive of searchable material.
Key questions remain unanswered: whether the Saudi-based operator is in fact an American citizen, whether it is acting alone or as part of a team, and whether there is any real coordination with the Hezbollah-linked recipients it claims to supply. What is clear is that the scale of the archive, the sophistication of the site, and the operation’s security practices appear to go beyond ordinary individual activism, raising unresolved questions about funding, coordination, and accountability for a project being run from inside Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. State Department and Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment.
Consider checking with Andrew Fox, an information warfare expert at the Henry Jackson Society. He posts regularly on substack.