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Quick🧵Debunking #Israel's "Human Shields" lie used as a blanket excuse to justify killing ANY Palestinian civilians:

e.g. IDF officials admit they 100% knew children & women would die in their strikes. They went for it anyways & called them "collateral damage" & "human shields" Image
2\ Amnesty found ZERO evidence of Palestinian combatants forcefully taking civilians as human shields or preventing them from evacuating targeted areas

The #Israeli org Breaking the Silence interviewed 100s of IDF soldiers, but never encountered evidence of those "human shields" Image
3\ #Israel's own courts, however, found evidence of Israeli soldiers taking Palestinians as human shields at gun point

IDF calls it the "neighbor procedure"

Amnesty, HRW, BTselem... all found evidence of Israel taking Palestinian human shields since the occupation began in 1967 Image
4\ #Israel deems ALL Palestinians in Gaza "human shields" by virtue of just living in the same neighborhoods with possible Hamas or PIJ members (even non-combatants)!

Can Hamas equally claim that it has a right to target Israeli cities b/c IDF soldiers live among civilians? Image
5\ An #Israeli "evidence" for "human shields" is a 2014 Hamas leader praising Gazans who refused to evacuate their home so that Israel bombs it to the ground.

HRW said this doesn't amount to the crime of human shields but rather a form of "peaceful protest" & defending homes! Image
6\ Amnesty concluded that even guerrilla warfare tactics in a densely populated urban space such as "storing munitions in civilian buildings of launching attacks from the vicinity of civilian buildings" do NOT amount to the crime of "Human Shields" under International Law. Image
7\ "Human Shields" are still civilians who don't lose their protected status whatsoever. Targeting them is still a War Crime.

#Israel's "Human Shields" canard is vile, racist & dehumanizing. It implies that Palestinians don't value their lives & have no agency! It's a 100% lie! Image

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May 12
This whataboutery is 100% false!

#Israel (NOT Egypt) militarily closes our air, water & land spaces; FULLY controls our financial system with extreme restrictions, the entry/exit of goods & foreigners, & access to the West Bank; regularly bombs us; & is the occupying power! 🧵 Image
2\ The Egyptian borders are actually open to passenger movement, but subject to restrictions imposed by ISRAEL in the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access.

The agreement gives Israel oversight & ability to blacklist people from leaving/entering! Image
3\ Foreigners (e.g. tourists, investors...) can only cross into Gaza through Israel, & the IDF does NOT allow any of those in except some few Int. NGO workers & diplomats; hence the siege!

Egypt is allowed, per the 2005 AMA agreement, to let in extremely limited exceptions.
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May 5
Exclusive: #Israeli coordinated smears:

3 days before the UK 2019 elex, Israeli mainstream media published a "major bombshell" that Hamas ran a propaganda op to support the Labour leader Corbyn

The 100% made up story was deleted from its original source shortly after the elex.. ImageImage
2\ ~A week before the UK 2019 elex, a young Gazan, Walid, got a call from an #Israeli Lt. Colonel who "used to hold a senior position in the IDF"

He asked Walid in Arabic why he was an admin on the "We Support Jeremy Corbyn" FB page with 72K followers & used a threatening tone..
3\ Walid explained that he was invited to simply write about his daily life in Gaza & that he had no relations to the Labour party or Hamas.

Days & Israeli media & propagandists widely circulated the lie that "Hamas officials" were running an "influential" page to support Labour ImageImageImageImage
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May 2
Quick🧵debunking the #Israeli myth of the 5 Arab armies' unprovoked aggression to annihilate Israel:

Arab regimes were forced in ONLY after Israel committed the Deir Yassin Massacre. The Arab armies goals were to stop the flood of refugees to their states, secure their borders.. Image
2\ Jordan's king, who had the strongest of the 5 armies, met with Zionist leaders regularly & had promised to endorse Jewish statehood & partition

After Deir Yassin, he proposed a Jewish canton in an expanded Jordan. His troops refrained from attacking Israel's own territories👇 Benny Morris
3\ Egypt's king went to war to prevent a flood of refugees; protect his borders; gain territory in South Palestine & prevent Jordan's king from claiming leadership of the Arabs.

His army were told they were "merely a punitive expedition against the Zionist gangs" NOT liberation Image
Read 8 tweets
May 2
Khader Adnan was NOT a militant & wasn't involved in any attacks

#Israel detained him 10 times without trial or charges for ~9 years

His only way to out was hunger strikes

Israeli gov was alerted he was about to die after 86 days of hunger but refused to send him to a hospital Image
2\ #Israel accuses Adnan of being a PIJ spokesman but has never put him on trial or charged him!

Ironically, Israel's Security Minister Ben-Gvir, who's in charge of the prison where Adnan died, was the spokesman of the terrorist Kach movement & was convicted of terror support! Image
3\ Khader Adnan's "imminent death" was made clear to the Israeli gov. They refused to transfer him to a hospital.

Ever if he was a PIJ combatant, this cruel & deliberate medical neglect is unjustifiable as well as his detention without trial or charges for ~9 years in total. Image
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May 1
Left: Al-Majdal, a thriving agricultural & industrial Palestinian village

Right: Al-Majdal today as a Jewish-only #Israeli city

After Israel's founding, the military spent 2 years depopulating the village. They locked up the residents in a Ghetto, then shuttled them on trucks.. ImageImage
2\ Al-Majdal's Palestinian population refused to leave their coastal village after #Israel's founding on May 14, 1948.

174 days later, the Israeli military invaded them, expelled 1,000 residents. General Yigal Allon ordered the expulsion of the rest, but they refused to leave... Image
3\ The #Israeli military locked up al-Majdal's 2,500 remaining residents in a confined Ghetto surrounded by barbed wire, raided them repeatedly at night to "cause panic" & offered them bribes to leave, but they didn't...

Israel's gov eventually forced residents on trucks to Gaza Image
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Apr 30
My ancestral village, Hamama, was violently depopulated by #Israel's army 167 days AFTER Israel's founding when its residents refused to leave!

The ~1,600-year-old village was literally obliterated from existence.

IDF did the same to 22 Palestinian villages in Operation Yoav🧵 ImageImage
2\ Hamama (dove) was a thriving agricultural village known for producing citrus, bananas, cereals & fishing.

5,000 Palestinians Muslims lived alongside 60 Jewish Palestinians in peace until a settlement "Nitzanim" was built by the Jewish National Fund in 1942. Then terrorism... Image
3\ In early 1948, before the Nakba, Zionist settlers from Nitzanim launched multiple terror attacks on the village to frighten its residents; wounding 17 & killing one.

The residents refused to leave even after Israel was founded in May 1948 & opened their homes to refugees... Image
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