Sanık - The Perpetrator

As horrifying and deeply unsettling as the Netanyahu administration’s attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip have been—defying all moral, humanitarian, and legal boundaries, and recognized by international judicial bodies as reaching genocidal proportions—perhaps even more disturbing has been the silence and indifference of the international community in the face of this uninterrupted violence since October 7, 2023.

The cries of Palestinians—most of them women and children—who fled relentless bombardments only to be targeted, killed, burned, or maimed in the makeshift tents where they sought refuge, failed to stir the conscience of the so-called “free and civilized world.” This silence and apathy, which deepened as the brutality escalated, emboldened the Netanyahu government and paved the way for further massacres.

With THE PERPETRATOR, Anadolu Ajansı completes a trilogy on the Gaza genocide following THE EVIDENCE and THE WITNESS, assembling a comprehensive criminal dossier. This final volume focuses primarily on the Netanyahu administration, which bears the foremost responsibility for the violence and devastation in Gaza. Composed of fanatical figures—some of whom would be considered criminals even under Israeli law—this administration’s depraved mindset is laid bare in all its darkness: one that sees the killing of children, the destruction of civilian homes, and even the burning of trees as victories to be celebrated.

The book also documents the broader network of complicity—from politics and business to academia and the arts—whose military and political support has kept Netanyahu’s machinery of mass violence running. It does so with the resolve and hope that one day, all those directly or indirectly linked to this genocide will be held accountable and forced to confront this collective shame.