This is a daily reality in the West Bank, where Hamas is not in charge:
"Good morning b**ch" says an Israeli soldier before repeatedly kicking & spitting at a detained Palestinian, with FULL impunity!
A thread documenting similar incidents🧵
2\ Again, this is in the West Bank, NOT Gaza.
The occupation is the motherlode of all violence in this land! As long as it remains, there will never be peace or calm!
Every day under Israel's rule is violent for palestinians!
3\ Another kidnapped Palestinian in the West Bank, forced to chant "Long live Israel" & an Israeli flag is put on his back.
4\ Another kidnapped Palestinian in the West Bank forced to praise Rabbi Nachman of Breslov & chant "Long live Israel".
Again, Hamas is NOT in charge of the West Bank.
Every Palestinian is targeted by Israel!
5\ More detained Palestinians from the West Bank forced to waive Israel's flag along with a satirical music from a tiktok challenge!
6\ Another Palestinian detained in the West Bank with a soldier yelling at him "You're a b**ch son of a b**tch".
Again, no Hamas in charge of the West Bank.
These videos are proudly filmed & posted by the IDF soldiers themselves, as a tiktok stunt!
7\ Israeli soldiers made it into a tiktok challenge to kidnap & blindfold Palestinians along with the tunes of the מני ממטרה song!
8\ Israeli national TV think's it's hilarious & funny to kidnap Palestinians, tie & blindfold them, then blast them with the מני ממטרה song non-stop.
The 2 anchormen say this song is "Israel's secret weapon" while laughing hysterically:
9\ Prominent Israeli politician & journalist Yinon Magal loves the tiktok challenge of kidnapping & humiliating Palestinians, here he is enacting it with his kids:
10\ More Israelis celebrating the tiktok trend of kidnapping, beating & humiliating Palestinians to the tunes of "Manny Mamtara"!
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🚨Israel's demand of disarming Hamas is a red herring designed to sabotage any ceasefire talks🧵
Hamas has virtually no offensive weaponry left (e.g. rockets, tunnels crossing into Israel)
They have light weaponry (e.g. rifles & anti-tank missiles)
Another Oct 7 is impossible!
2\ Hamas currently does NOT have the capacity to threaten Israel itself (e.g. rockets)
But they DO have the capacity to maintain a long insurgency *inside* Gaza against the IDF (not Israel itself)
Any serious Israeli analyst would tell you the chances of another Oct 7 are zero!
3\ Israel & Hamas share an interest in exaggerating Hamas' remaining capabilities. Israel wants to falsely portray Hamas as a major "existential threat" to justify continued genocide
Hamas wants to present a victory image that it's still in good shape after everything Israel did alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/20…
Getting many questions about the demonstrations in Gaza
So here's my full assessment of the protests; their potential & limitations; genuineness & spontaneity vs outside influence; motives & goals; & their ability to actually challenge Hamas or bring the war close to an end🧵
1\ The protests seem to have started spontaneously in small numbers & limited areas. Their grievances are genuine; people are tired, desperate for the genocide to end at any cost, many want Hamas to step down from gov to take away Israel's pretext for the siege & killing
But...
2\ The protests quickly drew the interest & influence of external actors, keen to exploit Gazans' despair & pain, & this may end up undermining the movement instead of helping
e.g. Israel demanding Gazans take to the street or face death, land theft & forever war will backfire
"Pay for slay" is a deeply racist Israeli trope that Palestinians are so deplorable, they'd want to get killed or imprisoned for life only for a few pennies!
The collaborationist Palestinian Authority NEVER paid anyone to attack Israel!
Israel has an identical prisoner fund🧵
2\ The PA paid financial support to Palestinians maimed or detained by Israel & families of those killed
Israel has an identical fund: "Prisoners of Zion & Families of Martyrs". It gives benefits to those imprisoned or killed for "Zionist activity" abroad or in mandate Palestine
3\ Why did the PA need this fund?
Because Israel has detained over 1 million Palestinians since 1967. All either tried in kangaroo military courts with a conviction rate of 99,7% (conviction rate of settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%) or never even put on trial or charged!
🚨🚨Netanyahu violates the ceasefire deal & declares Israel won’t allow displaced Gazans to return to the North today
The agreement👇 clearly says Israe should allow this unrestricted return of 1 million Gazans on day 7 (today) after the release of 7 female hostages (4 today, 3 last Sunday)
2\ Netanyahu is asking now for an additional female hostage, Arbel Yehoud, to be released today before allowing people back to the north
It’s unknown if Arbel is even alive. If she’s dead, it means her body would only be released at the end of phase 1 (as Israel itself demanded)
3\ Netanyahu claims Hamas was supposed to release female civilian hostages (I.e Arbel) today first before the 4 female soldiers
But if that’s the case, then why did Israel say nothing yesterday? Why only object now after the 4 soldiers returned to Israel?
2\ It became a Tiktok challenge during the genocide for Israeli soldiers to kidnap Palestinians, torture & humiliate them & force them on camera to wave the Israeli flag &/or sing Israel's national anthem
3\ More of the Israel Tiktok challenge of kidnapping, torturing & humiliating Palestinians:
Just read the "research" cited here by an org whose own co-founder called it "a far-right, deeply anti-Muslim racist organisation, run in the most dictatorial, corrupt & undemocratic fashion & utilized as a propaganda outfit".
As expected their report is a fraud🧵
1\ Author's main assumption is Gaza's causality figure is impossible b/c that'd mean Israel is targeting civilians & there's "no evidence" of this.
The ICC prosecutor literally charged Netanyahu with the Crime against Humanity of extermination for deliberately killing civilians!
2\ The author claims he found an error whereby 103 entries of killed men were mistakenly registered as women in a database of 44,000 causalities
That's his main "evidence" that the number of Gazan women killed by Israel has been widely inflated by a whopping 1%