Basic Rules of War:
1- Civilians & civilian structures are NEVER legitimate targets
2- Disproportionate & indiscriminate violence are prohibited
3- Collective punishment is prohibited
4- Torture & mutilation are prohibited
5- Detainees should be treated humanely
Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza's voice to the outside world.
He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister's home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids...
I can NOT find the International Court of Justice hearing on CNN, BBC, Channel 4, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, NBC, I24, DW, Sky News, or any mainstream US/EU TV channel...
Only Aljazeera English, so far!
What explains this unprecedented campaign of disinformation by omission?
🚨Released Israeli hostages explode at Netanyahu:
"We were terribly afraid that not Hamas but Israel would kill us & then say: Hamas killed you"
"[Hostages] were under constant threat from the IDF shelling"
"[IDF] helicopter shot at us"
Several shouted at Netanyahu "Shame"🧵
We finally got an answer to "would an IDF tank have run over him"
And the answer is: they would've zip-tied him 1st, then crushed & flattened him completely until no identifiable feature is left of him, then left his body there as a message to terrorize the entire population!
“Israel prohibits the importation of surfboards. Israel is, in effect, outlawing surfing [in Gaza]”
This was literally the plot of the movie Gaza Surfing Club
Israel’s been caging 2,3 million people by land, sea & air for 17 years & routinely shooting anyone who challenges that
Cognitive Dissonance: Jamie Lee Curtis was deeply moved by this picture ONLY when she thought they were Israeli.
As soon as she learned they were Gazan, she lost all feelings for them & deleted the picture.
Suddenly, "terror from the sky" became acceptable to her & her likes!
ISRAEL BROKE BOTH ARMS OF THIS CHILD IN PRISON
Then left him 8 days without medical treatment
Mohammed Nazal says they kept beating them daily until 1 died. They starved them to near death with a plate of plain rice for 10 people. They were freezing with no heating or blankets.
Israel blows up Gaza's "Palace of Justice" compound which housed the Palestinian Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Court of First Instance & the Magistrate.
100,000s of vital case documents are gone.
Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is a War Crime!
Left: Israel posted this PR picture with a disabled elderly Gazan, Bashir Hajji (75), bragging about their "humanity"
Right: Bashir's body was discovered right after, killed with 2 shots to the head & back, per his granddaughter
"He died tired, cold, thirsty & hungry" she wrote
Israel bombed my home!
My parents spent 25 years working hard; living on a tight budget; & saving up every penny to afford it.
My widowed mother wanted to sell it to pay for my siblings' college tuition & help them get on their feet.
All my memories, everything we had... gone!
Israeli soldier admits he murdered an unarmed elderly Palestinian man who had his arms up in the air & begged to spare his life.
The other soldiers applaud & praise him for it, shake his hand, give him a pat on the shoulder & say "all the respect"!
If this was a Hamas operative at al-Shifa, this picture would make immediate headlines in every mainstream media outlet.
But it's an Israeli sniper inside a UN school's classroom, shooting at targets & using the school as a base!
Not a single word from EU/US officials!
Not a Borat Sketch! The IDF Spokesman points to a random calendar at the Rantisi hospital as "evidence" of a "hostage keepers' list" with "terrorists' names".
But the ONLY thing on that "list" is literally the days of the week (Saturday-Friday).
No tunnels, no weapon stash...🧵
🚨Israel is arresting Palestinian men & teenagers en masse; marking them with numbers like cattle; & subjecting them to torture & degrading treatment.
All WITHOUT charges, trial, or legal counsel...
Everyone in North Gaza is presumed & treated as guilty until proven otherwise!
Crushing! 12 days ago, Hind (6) called the emergency line & begged for her life while she was stuck in a car surrounded by Israeli tanks & soldiers that slaughtered her entire family
Today her decomposing body was found as well as the bodies of paramedics who tried to rescue her
🚨ISRAEL RAPED A 13-YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD
When the US State Department complained to Israel's gov, the IDF raided the NGO that documented the case of rape, "removed their computers & declared them a TERRORIST ENTITY"
per Josh Paul today, (former) Senior State Dep official
Today is the 1st time in 17 YEARS (you read that right) that Gaza's skies are free of Israeli predator drones, albeit temporarily
& look at the immense happiness on this child's face
These drones are usually over Gazans heads 24/7 with a traumatic noise getting loudest at night
No Borat! An empty abandoned tunnel (that is likely one of those Israel built in 1983) is NOT enough to compromise the hospital’s protected status!
You have to prove it was being *used during this war* for military purposes!
Still no “sprawling” Hamas command & control centre?
Fun fact: Gaza's tunnel industry thrived b/c of Israel's siege (2006-present) & one of the earliest uses was to smuggle KFC from Egypt🧵
We were literally being starved to near death until the 1st smuggling tunnel brought in Twinkies, crisps & biscuits, all were banned by Israel
I'm genuinely curious how Israeli parents talk their kids into "blackfacing" Gazans:
"So honey, there are those people that we're bombing, they lost their homes, they don't have food or electricity & we're blowing their kids up into pieces, isn't that HILARIOUS? let's go!"
Al-Shifa hospital already has incubators! It's the fuel you banned; the hospital's solar panels you surgically bombed; & your tanks besieging al-Shifa that created the problem & is putting the lives of infants in grave danger!
Get it ding dongs? or is it only PR you care about?
So visibly marked Jewish graves stood openly in the heart of Gaza for 108 years without being destroyed or desecrated by Palestinians or even Hamas but were well maintained?
I wonder how this fits with the canard of "the Palestinian struggle is purely motivated by antisemitism"!
THESE ARE NOT HAMAS MEMBERS!
Among the identified detainees is prominent journalist Diaa al-Kahlout from al-Araby TV.
They were detained at a UN school turned shelter
Do journalists ever bother to do the tiniest bit of fact-checking & verification before amplifying propaganda?
So Israel cuts water, food, fuel, electricity, telecom to the entire population; displaces 1,700,000 civilians; kills over 11,000..
Then hands 4 water bottles to a dozen of terrified dehydrated starved civilians for a PR photo op to call it even!
Depraved, dim-witted dingdongs!
We will tell you again and again, we are not scum like Hamas and ISIS. We treat citizens as human beings. While thousands of Gazan citizens murdered Israelis, we treat them well. Those who are citizens receive good treatment from us. Look how our soldiers treat the people of…
🚨An IDF officer claimed he saw a "row of murdered [Israeli] babies hung on a laundry line" on Oct 7.
The interviewer, Yishai Cohen, now says the story is FAKE & deleted it.
He adds that it was the IDF Spokesperson who tricked him into doing it!
This should NOT pass unnoticed!
🚨Israeli soldiers were planting explosives to blow up 10 civilian homes in the Maghazi Refugee Camp in Gaza "to purify the area".
An RPG missile fired at them triggered all the explosives they planted & killed 21 IDF soldiers.
🚨Important! Haaretz definitively debunks iconic horror stories from Oct 7:
40 beheaded babies
Baby burned in oven
A pregnant woman's stomach opened & her fetus removed
Children bound together & burned
Pregnant hostage giving birth
Haaretz says only 1 baby was killed on Oct 7🧵
🚨Israeli soldiers set fire to food & water supplies in the besieged Shejaiya in Gaza's Northern half
Note the immense satisfaction & smile from ear to ear on one of the soldiers' faces! They were the ones to film & post this b/c there will be ZERO consequences to this depravity
🚨UPDATE: Mohammed Nazal's medical record shows Israel lied about not beating him up & damaging his hands!
Report concludes Muhammad suffered fractures in his fingers, contusions in his right & left arms
He said he was beaten up, starved daily & left without medical treatment🧵
The Hunger Games:
Zone 43 is today's death zone, abandon everything you have & move to zone 2305 or else you're fair game. Avoid zones 42, 44, 45 on the way.
Zone 2305 is tomorrow's death zone, go back to zone 43 which we fully reduced to rubble!
MOST GAZANS HAVE NO INTERNET...
Israeli students chase their history teacher & yell at him "cancer" & "son of a whore" b/c he dared to humanize Gazan & Palestinian civilians
Meir Baruchin was fired from his job & jailed in solitary confinement last November for this, but was just reinstated by a labour court🧵
🚨Identity Confirmed: Munir Qeshta al-Masry, a small business owner of an aluminium workshop in Beit Lahia. NEVER a Hamas member!
This is depraved on many levels; forcing civilians to strip & stand almost completely naked at gun point & filming/posting this for a victory image🧵
You mean:
Private Karina Ariev
Private Liri Albag
Private Agam Berger
Private Daniella Gilboa
All 4 are *IDF surveillance soldiers* at the Nahal Oz military base & were captured there; a small detail not mentioned once in the article...
Call for their release, but be honest!
The distance between each bombed WCK & the other shows beyond any doubt how the IDF took their time to deliberately & surgically eliminate the entire crew.
The 2nd car was bombed after it rescued the survivors of the 1st, & the 3rd after it rescued the survivors from the 2nd!
The Shifa hospital massacre is worse than the 1948 Nakba’s Deir Yassin & Tantoura massacres combined
Over 300 women, children & men slaughtered. Many zip-tied & executed, some flattened by tanks, burned, or hacked into pieces by missiles, skeletal remains & body parts everywhere
🚨Leaked Israeli drone footage shows how Israel bombed 5 *clearly unarmed* civilians into pieces in Khan Younis in broad daylight as they walked through their destroyed neighbourhood
The drone shows how each of them was fully unarmed before they were bombed anyways
This is a daily reality in the West Bank, where Hamas is not in charge:
"Good morning b**ch" says an Israeli soldier before repeatedly kicking & spitting at a detained Palestinian, with FULL impunity!
A thread documenting similar incidents🧵
She wasn't murdered, raped or abused. Footage showed her moments later safe in Gaza.
She was taken captive as a "bargaining chip" to free 1000s Palestinians whom Israel detains without charges, evidence or trial (aka administrative detention). Both violate int. law!
Abigail from China now has a RIGHT to move into the villages my grandparents were expelled from or in a settlement on stolen land in the West Bank with total ease.
I cannot even visit either!
If I magically get to the West Bank, Abigail can arrest me for being an "illegal alien"
Explain this: The UN formed a special commission to investigate Israeli allegations of Hamas rape on Oct 7.
Israel is preemptively calling the commission "antisemitic", "illegitimate" & "discriminatory" & declares it will NOT cooperate with it, before it even started!
A dozen Israeli soldiers just stormed a hospital, disguised as doctors, nurses, patients, & veiled women & executed 3 Palestinians in Jenin - the West Bank.
The IDF has entire units whose specialty is to fight in urban spaces dressed as civilians, like the “Duvdevan unit 217”.
Israel's Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem calls for burying detained Palestinian civilians ALIVE with D-9 military bulldozers, calling Palestinians "Nazis", "Subhuman" & "Ants".
"They are not human beings & not human animals, they are subhuman and that is how they should be treated."
Wow! BBC fabricated a quote from a released Palestinian detainee
What BBC wrote: "Only Hamas cared... We love them very much"
What she said: "[Israel] left us to die in the cold when the winter came. They sprayed us with pepper spray"
She didn't utter the word Hamas at all!🤬
“No civilian was killed. Not one” 🤡
Hospital burned to the ground
Headless skeletal remains of a woman discovered in a pile of garbage
Israeli tanks drove over patients & civilians
Women survivors forced to carry their slaughtered CHILDREN & walk 10km on foot (1/2)
Amazing battlefield achievement.
The IDF has just completed a 2 week operation on a Hamas command center that Hamas embedded within the Shifa Medical Center.
Hamas used staff and patients as human shields in order to cause maximum civilian casualties as to create more…
A🧵of Gazans trying to make the most out of the 4-day ceasefire:
Kids returning to the rubble of their homes hoping to find any of their belongings: Maryam looks so happy to have found her earmuffs
In about 78 hours, the Israeli bombing will resume...
Israeli soldiers made kidnapping & torturing Palestinians into a TIKTOK trend🧵
They film these atrocities while blasting music, singing, laughing, & dancing!
Israeli media thinks it's hilarious.
Many average Israelis are enacting it for fun!
This clip alone got 146,000 likes!
🚨Al-Shifa's Emergency supervisor: "We have NOT received any of what [Israel] claims about baby milk or incubators"
The comical all caps "MEDICAL SUPPLIES" in English is very telling about the real target of this propaganda
Israel cut off all food, water, fuel, aid to al-Shifa!
The IDF told an Israeli mother Hamas murdered her hostage son
But a CT scan found "no gunshot, stab wounds, shrapnel, fractures, external wounds & no signs of strangulation"
She says the IDF killed him with poison gas!
IDF then took away his tombstone that criticized the gov..
A reminder, the US never went after Bin Laden’s kids. His son Omar is a painter in France, his daughter Mariam is a swimmer.
Israel deliberately targeting the uninvolved family members, children & grandchildren, of Hamas leaders is a war crime. Period!
Turns out the source of the "beheaded babies" canard is an extremist Israeli settler leader, David Ben Zion, who "has a history of calls to genocidal violence" & wiping out entire villages!
He literally wishes to see Palestinians ethnically cleansed & the media is helping him!
December 2021: Israeli tanks go 100-200 meters inside Gaza to raze a strawberry farm while a Hamas militant prevents farmers from attacking the Israelis. How come?
🧵Explaining the Israeli-Hamas "ceasefire understandings" & why Israel never went for a formal ceasefire agreement
🚨Hostages are having their legs amputated from being zip-tied by all 4 limbs for months; they're being forced to defecate in diapers & fed through straws.
Those are Gazan hostages at Israel's Sde Teiman "concentration camp", so you won't see one word about it in Western media🧵
Israel's Public Diplomacy Minister:
"Erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth. That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence & try to enter Egyptian territory or they will die & their death will be evil.
Gaza should be erased!"
Still questioning a genocidal intent?
Israel is now flattening entire high-rise residential buildings in central Gaza that have ZERO security value!
These are called "power targets" & bombing them is aimed purely at terrorizing, intimidating & collectively punishing the Gazan population...
🚨An Israeli officer kidnapped a BABY girl from Gaza & brought her to Israel (parents likely killed) per a friend of his
Capt. Harel Itach was killed & the identity & whereabouts of the kidnapped baby are unknown
Israel’s Army Radio deleted the tweet that mentioned the incident
🚨Senior Israeli official admits they KNEW there were NO hostages in al-Shifa.
He said the raid was merely a "symbol that there is no place we will not reach" (i.e. nothing is safe in Gaza).
No claim of a "Hamas command center".
15 hours of IDF search, still NO tunnels found!
Interesting! Israel now admits some 200 of the bodies they said were Israelis turned out to be "so badly burned" bodies of "Hamas terrorists"!
The question then is: who burned them?!?
🚨Israel blows up the Medical Faculty of the IUG to the south of Gaza city.
This was NOT an airstrike, but explosives that soldiers planted in person there; meaning the buildings constituted ZERO security risk!
Israel has detained & killed several doctors since Oct 7 (1/2)
An Israeli ex-soldier infiltrated Gaza alone & unarmed to fight Hamas single-handedly
He walked 500 meters unimpeded, then an Israeli drone bombed him into pieces after he changed his mind & walked back
His family: "Why kill an unarmed man? Where are the open-fire regulations?"
Israel killed more journalists in Gaza in 7 weeks than all 20 YEARS of the Vietnam war & all 6 years of World War II
63 journalists killed in Vietnam by both sides
69 killed in World War II by all parties
70 killed in Gaza by Israel alone
People in Gaza are posting their wills, last words & pleas for forgiveness if they've ever wronged anyone in any way.
Israel killed 1417 Gazans, inc. 447 children & 248 women in 6 days.
Everyone believes it could be their turn next; either from an airstrike or starvation...
🚨Israel kidnapped Dr. Yousef Barakat from al-Shifa hospital 10 days ago & there has been no information about him since
Yousef was my classmate. He was one of the smartest & brightest kids in school, but also one of the kindest & most empathetic
Please call for his release...
🚨Israel is rounding up men & teenagers en masse in Khan Younis today; stripping them down to their underwear; detaining them & loading them on trucks.
Gazan detainees since Oct 7 have subjected to torture, starvation & ill treatment with no access to legal counsel or trial.
You can see his entire rib cage & skeleton. A child for heaven's sake!
Starved to near death by Israel. Wounded while fighting to get some aid airdropped at sea in Deir al-Balah!
More footage emerges from Gaza amid the temporary truce showcasing how Israel has been methodically wiping out as much of the besieged enclave as possible.
There's a reason the Biden admin were worried people would demand a ceasefire when they get to see these clips! Quick🧵...
Israel bombed my home, killed many of my friends, family & colleagues.
But our pain should NEVER be exploited to spew antisemitic hatred! This never helps us a jot. It only damages the justness of our cause!
Antisemitism makes one an oppressor, not an ally!
Reject hatred!
While the Israel-Hamas war continues, Jews outside of Israel are contending with a severe wave of antisemitism directed against them, from graffiti to graphic slurs to extreme physical violence.
@haaretzcom
ongoing series of special reports from across Europe on a tide of hate
Barefoot, stripped naked in the cold, wrapped with filthy broken plastic coats, full of mud, tagged with numbers on their backs
Palestinians kidnapped by Israel are treated worse than animals & IDF soldiers are the ones proudly taking & posting these pictures b/c 0 consequences!
Horrifying: Israel bombs Gaza's overcrowded Tuffah neighbourhood with insane airstrikes while its full of people without any prior warning.
This carnage happens at the exact same time Western media is claiming the war on Gaza has entered a phase of "low intensity"!
Israel admits the Gaza Health Ministry number of causalities are "fairly accurate" & "more civilians have been killed than Hamas operatives"
This is after 60 days of Biden & mainstream media relentlessly sowing doubt about these figures & thus enabling the killing of way more
"Guys, we're bombing Gaza... hahaha...right now! I'm trying to eat my popsicle"
What explains this Israeli influencer's extreme delight, excitement & ecstasy about the slaughter of civilians & wiping out of a whole city?
PS. Israel's president just met & honoured this same guy!
I’ve seen Hamas members get excommunicated for smoking cigarettes/shisha or watching an “indecent” clips & the IDF wants you to think they’d be walking around with a tattoo (a very grave sin)?
In all my life in Gaza, I’ve virtually never seen a single Gazan with a tattoo.
Israeli journalist Yair Altman quotes medical Commander Dr. Hen Ditman:
"As a medical team we come across emotionally complex situations. What are your feelings of taking care of a terrorist who murdered children, raped women and has a swastika tattooed on his arm?"
Israel is surgically & methodically assassinating anyone that tries to ensure the safe distribution of aid in Gaza & prevent looting & chaos
In 72 hours, Israel killed 3 top police officials, 24 social workers, & a prominent tribal leader who all worked on securing aid convoys🧵
Israel directly bombs fleeing Gazans after ordering them to flee in that particular direction!
Israel continues to bomb the very South of Gaza that it ordered 1.2 million to evacuate to!
In 7 days, Israel killed over 2215, inc. 724 kids & 458 women! 8,714 wounded
Pure carnage!
Qatar just brokered a deal where Israel would allow more medicine to go into Gaza in return for giving some of it to Israeli captives
The CLEAREST admission that Israel has been obstructing the flow of medicine for *100 days* while children had amputations without anaesthesia...
Very telling when an ex-Top Adviser to Israel's Prime Minister is way more sympathetic to Palestinians than a BBC presenter:
Presenter "The Israelis would say.. we're defending ourselves"
Daniel Levy: "Do you really keep a straight face when you say that? ...these kind of lies"
This is barbaric! But committed by Israel, so it'll get ZERO media coverage & NO Western official will say a word!
Under int. law any detained individual, NO MATTER WHAT, is "entitled to be treated humanely & benefits from related fundamental guarantees under... customary IHL"
🚨Israel's Public Broadcasting Corporation admits those are NOT Hamas militants
It's random men & teenagers detained arbitrarily without charges, trial or legal counsel to "check *IF* some of them are Hamas terrorists"
Meaning civilians are presumed guilty until proven innocent
Same IDF commander that executed 4 shirtless surrendering Gazans waiving a white flag on October 7 also executed the 3 shirtless Israeli hostages waiving a white flag
Who would’ve thought!
Had mainstream media bothered to covered the 1st incident, it could’ve prevented the 2nd!
Even Fox News' reporter was in disbelief about the "Hamas tunnel" under al-Shifa hospital:
He asks "Is this part of the hospital? b/c it looks like the tiles from the hospital... It looks like the same tile".
No wonder Israel bombed that "tunnel" evidence today to smithereens!
Qatar becomes the 1st country in the world to send a high-level diplomatic delegation to Gaza, to witness Israel's carnage 1st hand. Headed by Int. Cooperation State Minister
@Lolwah_Alkhater
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No EU/US official has been to Gaza in 51 days, but they all scramble to visit Israel!
10 days ago, Israel bombed Montaser Al-Sawaf's home, killing 45 of his family, inc. his parents, 2 siblings & their children.
He kept working despite his *untreated* injury to expose the carnage in Gaza.
Today, Israel killed him & his brother Marwan in an airstrike!
Abu Ghraib 2023!
Israel is detaining men & teenagers in Gaza en masse; without charges, trial or legal counsel.
Detainees are subjected to torture, degrading treatment, starvation & violence. Some died in detention camps & prisons.
Opps.. Israel's Channel 12 accidentally reveals the weapon stash "found" at al-Shifa does NOT belong to Hamas. It has the "Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)" emblem.
PIJ is a more minor group & doesn't have gov access to al-Shifa, which raises a possibility of implanted evidence!
Israel just deleted the "compelling evidence" of a "Hamas HQ" at al-Shifa after it became a laughing stock!
NO central command, NO tunnels, NO hostages!
They only "found" 8 rusty dust-filled AK-47s, a laptop & CDs after a day-long thorough search, interrogations & kidnappings..
🚨Israel shot 4 pregnant women raising white flags on their way to al-Awda hospital, IDF bulldozers ran over them!
They were left to rot in the sun in an area held by Israel for over 2 weeks.
Dozens of decomposing & mutilated bodies were discovered today in Tal al-Zaatar…
"Why don't Palestinians condemn Hamas?"
Serious answer:
1- Most despise this litmus test to qualify as human
2- Most think it'll make no difference & Israel will exploit any condemnations to say "Palestinians agree that Hamas should be wiped out" (which means wiping out Gaza)..🧵
To every schmuck judging a murdered man:
Refaat used to criticize me A LOT, yet I was the 1st to mourn him.
He became sour after Israel bombed his home in 2014 & killed 30 of his relatives & left him homeless for long.
Who knows what you would've done if you were in his shoes!