Thread by @TaliShapiro

As Israel continues its massacres in Gaza, killing another 14 indigenous Palestinians, including 4 more children, a pattern emerges pointing to @ElbitSystemsLtd's complicity.
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But first, let's say the names of the victims:

1- Tareq Ezzeddin, 49
2- Ali Ezzeddin, 9
3- Mayar Ezzeddin, 11
4- Khalil Bahtini, 45
5- Hajar Bahtini, 5
6- Laila Bahtini, 44
7- Yousef Khaswan, 20
8- Dr. Jamal Khaswan, 53
9- Mervat Khaswan, 45
10- Dania Adas, 19
11- Eman Adas, 14
12- Jihad Ghannam, 62
13- Wafa’s Ghannam, 50

14- Yazan Elian, 16
15- Rami Hamdan, 16
16- Lian Medookh, 10
17- Ala’ Baraka, 27
18- Alam Abdul-Aziz, 27
19- Ayman Saidam, 26
20- Tamim Daud, 5
21- Ahmad Shabaki, 51
22- Mohammad T’eima, 25

23- Ali Ghali
24- Mahmoud Ghali
25- Mahmoud Mansour
26-Saed Ferwana, 28
27- Wael Agha, 34

In the meantime, Israel isn't sparing the West Bank. Yesterday, Ahmad Assaf (19) and Rani Qatanat (24) were killed resisting the Israeli military invasion into Qabatiya.

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1656230603610628096

And today, father of two and not a resistance fighter, Aws Kamil (30), died of the several bullets Israel shot him with during the same invasion, bringing the death toll since Monday to 30.
imemc.org/article/palest…

Now I'd like to go back to Gaza and the pattern that leads me to believe that #Elbit is producing Israel's new toy, and in return, Israel is field-testing it on live subjects. And if that sounds harsh, you should hear how Israeli officials describe it.

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1593241572505575424

Two things stuck out to me in recent reports on Israel's massacres in Gaza:

1️⃣ The fact that in several cases, Israel hasn't bunker-busted its way to its victims, bringing down whole buildings. My assumption at first was that Israel had realized the tactic creates "difficult pictures to explain".

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1394585101724422144

2️⃣ Instead, Israel is using something called a "suicide drone" to accomplish its executions of whole families. The result, rather than whole buildings coming down, is more akin to an explosion from within an apartment.

https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1656427729984602113

Last year Elbit Systems unveiled its unmanned suicide drone, the Lanius; a mothership drone with several detachable baby drones riding on its back. You'll note that these baby drones were designed to roam through small spaces, detect targets, and explode.

Can the Lanius however make an explosion the size of which we've seen in Israel's latest massacres in Gaza? According to Haaretz, one or two could do the trick (archive.fo/sf9ZE):

"According to specifications released by Elbit, the drone.. can carry a payload of as much as 150 grams. By comparison, an Israel Defense Forces’ grenade contains about 160 grams of explosives,so it is likely that the Lanius is most lethal at short ranges and in enclosed spaces."

Another issue that the Haaretz article raises, coincides with my assumption that Israel didn't accidentally kill the four children it killed on Monday.

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1655908217099042816

And indeed Ha'aretz explains that "The system is designed to enable the drone to identify people automatically and distinguish between those who are armed and constitute a threat and those who aren’t."

Ha'aretz expresses concerns that the drone can make mistakes, but Elbit has an answer for the bleeding hearts: "Elbit stresses that even if the drone can fly on automatic pilot, the decision to detonate remains exclusively in the power of the human operator."

In other words, if it is, in fact, Elbit's drone massacring Palestinian children in the past couple of days, its military operators know exactly who they're exterminating in their sleep.

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