Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming that the deals signed between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain are putting an end to conflict and bringing about peace. But this is what happened last week: haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
UAE minister echoes claims that the agreement will bring peace. Here's a reality check: The deal will do nothing to achieve Palestinian freedom. Instead it will pave the way for Israeli spy tech to be sold in greater numbers to the UAE. #AbrahamAccordstheintercept.com/2016/10/17/how…
The UAE minister claimed that Trump "stopped" Israeli annexation of the West Bank. That's a lie. Israel has de facto annexed the West Bank. 300,000+ Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, surrounded by Israeli checkpoints and soldiers. That's annexation. #AbrahamAccords
If the #AbrahamAccords were really about "peace," why are these agreements being sealed with Trump's promises to sell deadly weapons in a region already awash in them? timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-…
Bahrain's minister calls for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinians. He's obscuring the facts on the ground--Israel has killed the two-state solution and erected a vicious apartheid system aimed at erasing the Palestinian presence #AbrahamAccords
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THREAD: A new @UN report finds that Israeli soldiers are systematically sexually abusing Palestinians.
Content Warning: This thread includes descriptions of sexual violence.
For months, Palestinians in Gaza have reported horrific accounts of Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting them.
Now, a new UN report confirms that Israel’s sexual abuse of Palestinians in Gaza is part of its “operating procedures.”
Israeli soldiers’ sexual abuse of Palestinians in the past 8 months includes:
- Raping at least 1 Palestinian to death
- Raping Palestinians by forcing them to sit on hot, electric metal rods
- Sexually abusing Palestinian children, including by forcing them to strip naked in public
- Collecting the intimate wear of Palestinian women after violently forcing them to flee from their homes
- Writing rape threats on the ruins of Palestinian homes they’ve destroyed
- Videotaping and posting their sexual abuse of Palestinians online
THREAD: In the last 48 hours, the Israeli military has escalated its violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, killing 12 Palestinians. Since October, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed 543 Palestinians, including 133 children.
For the past 8 months, Israel has conducted daily raids on Palestinian homes and communities in the West Bank. Recently, this violence has reached unprecedented levels, causing widespread terror and suffering.
Israel has no legal authority to send its military into Palestinian towns and cities. The ongoing violence and humiliation inflicted on Palestinians in the West Bank are both unjust and unlawful.
THREAD: Israel invaded the Palestinian City of Jenin today, killing 7 Palestinians, including 2 children.
With full impunity, Israel is intensifying its broad daylight attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.
At 8AM this morning, while Palestinians were on their way to school and work, the Israeli military invaded the Palestinian city of Jenin.
Israeli soldiers killed 2 children, a teacher, and a surgeon outside his hospital.
With all eyes on Gaza, Israel has escalated its atrocities in the West Bank to little global awareness or outcry.
There, Israel has destroyed Palestinian homes, stolen Palestinian land, and killed and unjustly arrested 100s of Palestinians, faster and more brutally than ever.
THREAD: Today marks 2 years since Israel killed renowned Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Israel hasn't stopped killing Palestinian journalists since then.
On May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier shot Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head, killing her while she was reporting in a clearly marked press vest and helmet.
Israel and the US ignored widespread calls for accountability.
Since then, Israel has continued killing journalists with impunity.
In the past 7 months alone, Israel has killed at least 135 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, more journalists than were killed in the entirety of WWII.