Thread by @UthmanB

Israeli forces killed Israelis civilians (and soliders) on Oct 7.

The evidence is now irrefutable. 👇🏽

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The first point to note is that taking out hundreds of fighters in civilians areas is nigh impossible w/out “firendly fire” casualties, all the more with the IOF’s “Hannibal protocol” of using max force to avoid hostage situations. Testimonial evidence corroborates this. /1

‘Karni’, from an all-female tank company, told Israel’s N12 News that she was ordered to open tank fire on homes in the Holit kibbutz whether they contained civilians or not. She decided not to, but we know others did. Kibbutz Be’eri is the most striking example of this. /2

Yasmin Porat, resident of Be'eri, was one of those shelled. Her now-famous testimony to Israeli State Radio (Oct 15) reveals when Israeli forces arrived, they fired indiscriminately: “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages. There was very, very heavy crossfire.”

Hadas Dagan’s later testimony (Dec 11) corroborates this. She was the sole survivor from a house in Be'eri where 14 hostages were killed. She explains how Israeli shelling was the cause of this. 👇🏽

Tuval Escapa was part of security in Be’eri. He told Nir Hasson (Oct 20) that to free Be'eri, “commanders in the field made difficult decisions—including shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.” haaretz.co.il/news/politics/…

Quique Kierszenbaum toured Be’eri after Oct 7, noting “nearby trees splintered and walls reduced to concrete rubble from where Israeli tanks blasted the Hamas militants where they were hiding. Floors collapsed on floors. Roof beams were tangled and exposed...” theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Gen. Avi Rosenfeld, comm. of Gaza Division told Amos Harel of Haaretz that when Hamas seized the Erez Crossing military base, his division was “compelled to request an aerial strike against the base itself in order to repulse the terrorists.” Israeli soldiers & staff were inside. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Apache helicopters were also used to kill enemy fighters, the pilots of whom “realized that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian…only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.” ynet.co.il/news/article/b…

Colonel Nof Erez, an Israeli reserve pilot, told a Haaretz podcast that Oct 7 was “a mass Hannibal” because there were “tons of openings in the fence” with Gaza and thousands were moving back and forth: “it was an impossible mission” for Apache and drone pilots to distinguish between Palestinian fighters and hostages.

Finally, we know that the "1400 killed" figure was over by 200 bec. as Mark Regev explained, "there were actually bodies that were so badly burnt, we thought they were ours; in the end, apparently, they were Hamas terrorists." Light arms don’t do this. Heavy artillery does.

If all of this is not incontrovertible evidence that Israeli forces killed at least some—likely many!—of their own on Oct 7, I don’t know what is! Yet Israeli authorities continue to brush this under the carpet, because admitting to it would tar their case for genocide in Gaza.

Another testimony: Erez Tidhar, Head of Israel’s Nationial Cyber Emergency Response Team, describes the scene of IDF helicopters firing missiles "every minute" into Be’eri and IDF tanks shelling houses.

Neomit Dekel-Chen tells her story of being taken to Gaza as a hostage when "an IDF helicopter appeared above us" and fired shots: "All the terrorists were dead and we were alive, except for one of the women with us. She had died in the arms of her daughter..." jta.org/2023/10/16/isr…

In another similar case, released hostage Doron Katz Asher told N12News that IDF helicopter fire killed her mother and injuring others when it fired at a tractor that had captives on their way to Gaza.