Thread by @Spinozasrose

@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 Palestinian children detained by Israel:

According to Amnesty International "Palestinian armed groups have repeatedly shown total disregard for the most fundamental human rights, notably the right to life, by deliberately ..using Palestinian children in armed attacks."
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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 According to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, in the al-Aqsa Intifada, children were used as "messengers and couriers, and in some cases as fighters and suicide bombers in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians" during the al-Aqsa Intifada. (wiki)

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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 According to the Israel Defense Forces, 29 suicide attacks were carried out by youth under the age of 18 in 2000–2003.
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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 On March 29, 2002, Ayat al-Akhras, an 18-year-old girl from the Deheishe Refugee Camp detonated explosives strapped around her in a supermarket in Jerusalem, killing herself, a 17-year-old Israeli girl named Rachel Levy, and a 55-year-old security guard named Haim Smadar.
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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 On March 24, 2004, one week after capturing a bomb in the bag of 12-year-old Abdullah Quran, Hussam Abdo, a 16-year-old Palestinian (who initially claimed he was 14), was captured in a checkpoint near Nablus wearing an explosive belt.

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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 On June 16, 2004, two girls, aged 14 and 15, were arrested by the IDF for allegedly plotting a suicide bombing. According to an IDF statement, the two children were recruited by activists from Tanzim (Fatah's armed wing), guided by Hezbollah.[11]

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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 On July 3, the Israeli Security Forces thwarted a suicide bombing that it claimed was to have been carried out by 16-year-old Muataz Takhsin Karini. Karini and two of his operators were arrested, while a 12 kg explosive belt was detonated safely by an Israeli EOD crew.[12]
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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 On September 27, 2004, a 15-year-old suspected suicide bomber was arrested in Nablus.[17] On October 28, Ayub Maaruf, a 16-year-old Fatah suicide bomber, was arrested near Nablus along with his operator.[18]
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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 On October 11, a 14-year-old Palestinian boy was arrested by IDF forces. He told the soldiers he was forced to agree to commit a suicide bombing when two terrorists from Fatah's Tanzim faction threatened to murder him by spreading a leaflet accusing him of collaboration
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@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 @threadreaderapp unroll

@AOC @BettyMcCollum04 And the list goes on. Does @AOC know about Palestininan abuse of children as fodder for their bloodlust? Does she know what they teach their children?

How ignorant and antisemitic you have to be to declare what she just did about Israel? The blood libel is strong in this one 8/.