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@benabyad
Sep 16, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Over the summer, Israeli officials met to discuss what can only be called a war on the very existence of Palestinians in 60% of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian construction - homes, agriculture - was called a "virus", "territorial terror", "cancer".

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
The Brigadier General heading Israel's occupation authority in the West Bank proudly told the Knesset how the military has uprooted 42,000 trees planted by Palestinians in the past 20 years - including 7,500 just in 2019. Not in military operations. For being "illegally" planted.
Another Israeli official revealed that in 2019, occupation authorities confiscated 700 excavators & bulldozers & the like from Palestinians, providing "very significant deterrence". In first 8 months of 2020, 242 structures were removed from Palestinian communities & confiscated.
As Haaretz reported, senior Israeli officials "drew up regional priorities for demolishing Palestinian structures", which "at this stage" include "the area surrounding Jerusalem", South Hebron Hills, and "the Jordan Valley".

This is not a secret. It's systematic, & underway.
One official "said the coordination between various groups that report immediately on Palestinian construction has improved greatly". Present at the meetings was settler activist Meir Deutsch of Regavim, which works with state officials to target Palestinian communities.
Senior Likud MK Nir Barkat (former Jerusalem mayor): Israel's priority is settling 2 million Jews in West Bank, and the "thwarting of the Palestinians’ attempt to change the situation. They have enough territory in A and B".

The 'Areas A & B' Bantustan(s) = 40% of the West Bank.
Meanwhile, the Israeli gov't has just allocated 20 million shekels ($6 million) "to survey & map out unauthorised Palestinian construction" in Area C.

"first time that funds have been specifically allocated for such a survey as part of the state budget".

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
And as new UN data shows, there's no let up in Israel's "war" on the "cancer" of Palestinian existence in Area C - not even during a pandemic. March-August saw highest monthly avg. destruction rate in 4 years, w/ 389 structures demolished or confiscated.

ochaopt.org/content/unlawf…
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Feb 2, 2023
Once again, Israel's ambassador @TzipiHotovely lies to British media.

Kay Burley: "There was someone shot at a checkpoint, & he was unarmed, in front of his child."

Hotovely: "That, actually, it's not correct."

But it *is* correct - and even the Israeli army had to admit it...
Before returning to the horrific killing referred to by Burley, a reminder that this isn't the first time @TzipiHotovely has openly misled journalists - like this absurd example last December.

You can read about the killing of Ahmed Kahla - which Hotovely simply denied had even happened - in this thread.

In January alone, 35 Palestinians were killed in occupied West Bank & East J'lem, including 8 children. Approx. half of total were unarmed.

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Dec 6, 2022
Some 200 Palestinians have been killed this year - including around 150 shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

Two weeks ago, Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely claimed *95%* of Palestinians killed this year were "terrorists".

This is dehumanising disinformation.

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Contrary to Israeli authorities' claims, a *clear majority* of those killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year - likely some two-thirds - have been *unarmed*. Protesters, those participating in collective confrontations against soldiers invading their towns, bystanders.
A *minority* of those killed were armed or conducting attacks - & most of those were killed resisting Israeli forces invading their communities.

Almost all Palestinians killed this year in any circumstances - 98/99% - were killed in territory under Israeli military occupation.
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Nov 3, 2022
As the Israeli election results are digested, Ben Gvir is dominating a lot of coverage.

He is accurately portrayed as a racist, far-right nationalist, his success a disturbing new development.

In that context, here is a qiuick quiz of ‘Who said it?’

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"I do not think that the Arabs want peace...What I want is not a new Middle East, but to be rid of them" & "to maintain a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel".

Ben Gvir or Yair Lapid?
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Answer: Yair Lapid.
"I see them [Palestinians] eating the Galilee and my heart bleeds…They live in houses in Afula and in Acre and they take over entire streets".

Ben Gvir or Shimon Peres?
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Answer: Shimon Peres.
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Nov 1, 2022
Israeli elections.

Approx. 1 in 3 of all the people living under Israeli control *can't* vote.

🚫 Palestinian residents of annexed Jerusalem.

🚫 Palestinians in the militarily occupied West Bank & Gaza Strip.

#Israelex22 is an expression not of democracy but the lack thereof.
"but they're not Israeli citizens of course they can't vote"

That's...sort of the point?

They're not citizens - and yet Israel has ruled them and colonised their land for decades. Curious!
Two illustrations.

1. Notice anything interesting about the map shared by the Israeli military in its voting guide for soldiers?

2. Ben-Gvir casts his vote in the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank. ImageImage
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Oct 12, 2021
Israeli settlers' attacks on Palestinians in occupied West Bank surging this year - 2021 total will easily outstrip 2020 (which itself was up from 2019).

Such violence only possible thanks to Israeli authorities' complicity, support.

data via @ochaopt

ochaopt.org/poc/21-septemb…
"[The army] did not report the incident, nor was a complaint filed against the settler.

...Palestinian eyewitnesses said that they saw the soldier give his gun to the settler".

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
"The settlers then hung him [Tareq] with ropes on tree branches, with his feet in the air, and wounded and burned his feet. After a few minutes, the settlers took him down from the tree, and then one of them hit him in the head with a stick..."

btselem.org/settler_violen…
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Jul 22, 2021
Why would one ice cream company's decision to stop selling produce in Israeli settlements prompt such a extraordinary reaction from the Israeli gov't?

The smears are shameless, and the absurdity is amusing.

But the reaction of Israeli leaders is not random & merits reflection.
Three main things going on here.

1. Israeli state & its institutions, + mainstream Jewish Israeli political opinion, views *& in practice treats* the West Bank as belonging to Israel. The reaction to even a v.specific boycott of settlements can only be understood in this light.
2. Total opposition to accountability.

The direct impact of B&J's decision is ofc small. But that doesn't matter. For the Israeli gov't - and this applies whoever is in power, Likud to Labor - *any* kind of accountability for IHL violations, human rights abuses etc. is anathema.
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