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Aug 26

1/3 This is Amichai Chikli, a blatant racist who serves as #Israel's Minister of 'Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.' In a bid for political relevance - competing with other bigoted politicians who promote atrocities against #Palestinians - he set out to eradicate impartial humanitarian relief.

2/3 Come September 9, Chikli - according to his recent admission - will exclude independent and impartial humanitarian organizations from providing aid to Palestinians in dire need in the West Bank and #Gaza. Those who are allowed to stay and deliver would do so under condition of subservience to Israel's whims and illicit acts of forcible transfer, deportation and annexation. These are the "security, laws, and foreign policy" considerations espoused by Chikli.

3/3 Chikli - on behalf of Israel's government - rejectes the absolute duty of an Occupying Power to agree - on behalf of and in the interest of occupied peoples - offers of humanitarian relief made by impartial humanitarian organizations, and the corollary duty to facilitate their presence and activities. In other words, Israel has no latitude to refuse organizations on capricious, arbitrary or unlawful grounds.

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@EpshtainItay

Aug 6

#Israel is set to expand its #Gaza offensive, in what amounts to 'Debellatio.' A short thread on the supreme international crime:
1/3 war of debilitation is characterized by the unlawful intent and attempt to bring the complete destruction and disintegration of all public life and institutions.

2/3 Debellatio was a legal construct during a period when States were free to wage war for territorial gain. However, in contemporary international law, that would be an act of aggression.

3/3 The concept of 'debellatio,' including the complete and total defeat of an adversary, and the taking of "spoils of war" (the territory and sovereignty of the vanquished belligerent) has been outlawed. Time we call #Israel's war in #Gaza what it is - a crime of #aggression.

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@EpshtainItay

Jul 13

BREAKING: Former #Israel Minister of Intelligence @GilaGamliel (@Likud_Party, the current Minister of Science) fabricates the October 2023 plan for mass deportation of #Palestinians from #Gaza, in a purported attempt to avoid complicity in the war crime of unlawful deportation and transfer. A thread:

1/3 On 13 October 2023, the Ministry of Intelligence circulated a white paper, calling for the forcible transfer of the civilian population to Rafah, leading to mass deportation to tent cities in northern Sinai, their eventual resettlement there, and the fortification of the Gaza-Egypt frontier, so they may not return.

2/3 Last week, Minister Gamlil recirculated a fabricated version of her criminal plan. While it bears the same date (13 October 2023), it was doctored to refer to "voluntary humanitarian evacuation" to Sinai, and references to forced resettlement and non-repartation were omitted.

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Itay Epshtain

@EpshtainItay

Jul 9

1/5 The Assembly of States Parties to the @IntlCrimCourt concludes its special session on the crime of aggression today. Over the past three days, it has considered amendments to the exercise of the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The #US, not a State party, was present, on the behest of #Israel, in order to intimidate and coerce others from pursuing criminal justice for the supreme international crime.

2/5 The proposed amendment, under debate, seeks to ensure that all States Parties are equally subject to the Court’s jurisdiction over aggression, allowing the Court to exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression even when committed by nationals of a State that is not a party to the Statute or when committed on its territory and established a jurisdictional framework that applies uniformly to all core crime.

3/4 US State Department Legal Advisor Reed Rubinstein – who vowed during his March 2025 nomination hearing to serve “national interests above all else” – intervened and threatened the Court and the State parties with “diplomatic, political, and legal instruments to block @IntlCrimCourt overreach.” Coercion was clear: the #US expects “all ICC actions against the United States and our ally #Israel-that is, all investigations and all arrest warrants-to be terminated. If not, all options remain on the table.”

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Itay Epshtain

@EpshtainItay

Jul 8

The parallels are uncanny...

Together with a copy of the @DonaldTrump nomination letter handed over by @netanyahu is a petition from his party, @Likud_Party, to seek endorsement of the October 23' Ministry of Intelligence plan (at the time, headed by Gila Gamliel) for mass deportation from #Gaza.

The criminal endeavour, now referred to as the 'Gamliel-Trump Plan,' outlines the four stages: 1. A call on #Palestinian civilians to vacate north #Gaza and allow for land operations; 2. Sequential land operations from north to south, Gaza; 3. Leaving routes open across Rafah; 4. Establishing "tent cities" in northern Sinai and the construction of cities to resettle Palestinians in #Egypt.

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Itay Epshtain

@EpshtainItay

Jun 3

First, there was the #Gaza pier, which floated away before delivering any meaningful aid, then there were the airdrops, which landed in the Mediterranean, when they didn't kill or injure Palestinians. Now, there are the sham humanitarians - brandishing assault rifles - of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" setting up death traps for Gazans starved by #Israel.

It is all an attempt to obfuscate the intentional use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and territorial conquest. A distraction from the grave breaches and serious violations of interntional law. A ruse leading to the death of thousands.

The answer has always been clear. Israel must adhere to its duty, as the occupying power, to facilitate independent and impartial humanitarian relief, free from any military, political, or economic interference, offered by impartial humanitarian organizations, across the
occupied Palestinian territory, including Gaza. Lifting the near-total siege and blockade on Gaza, and taking action to prevent further forcible transfer and starvation, is the absolute minimum. What we see now is diametrically opposed, and criminal.

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