🚨Extremely dangerous🚨
Since yesterday, there has been an unprecedented coordinated push by Israeli top gov officials, diplomats, journalists, lobbying groups & propagandists to FALSELY claim that Gazan journalists knew in advance about Hamas' attack & were embedded with them🧵
2\ The goal of this coordinated push is twofold: 1- Delegitimise prominent Gazan journalists to create an information blackout about what Israel is doing in Gaza
2- Justify the killing of 39 journalists in 4 weeks & the imminent killing of others
EVERYONE SHOULD CONDEMND THIS!
3\ Israel's ex-Defence Minister & current senior member in the war coalition cabinet is openly calling for treating prominent Gazan journalists as "terrorists" (i.e. incitement to killing)
Israel killed in 4 weeks way more journalists than in any other global conflict since 1992
4\ NONE of those journalists were "embedded with Hamas" or knew anything in advance about the attack.
Hassan Eslayeh was the 1st journalist to cross into Israel at 8:38AM.
That's 128 minutes after Hamas attack & one can see he entered alongside civilians & some random armed men
5\ Israeli media & politicians are circulating this 3-year-old picture of Hassan Eslayeh to incite against him
This picture does NOT imply ANY affiliation with Hamas; Gazan journalists usually post similar pics to showcase their access & connections as a way of self-promotion!
6\ Israel's other argument to delegitmize Gazan journalists is that some crossed the fence (hours AFTER its collapse) without press-marked clothing
But how could they have possibly gotten that on a Saturday at 8:00am? Their offices were closed & they had to rush to catch a scoop
7\ While this coordinated smear campaign goes viral, Israeli lawmakers are clearly stating the end goal: killing Gazan journalists to make them "pay the price like Hamas terrorists"!
This is a Knesset (Parliament) member from the ruling Likud party!
8\ US Senators are joining the coordinated smear campaign against Gazan journalists to silence reporting from the ground & legitmize killing them
To MSM: you have a moral duty to protest & pushback against this. Otherwise, you'd be complicit in the slaughter of your colleagues!
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Israel's latest lunatic lie to justify the IDF dog that mauled an elderly woman is that Hamas kidnapped the dog in front of IDF soldiers, tamed him, trained him to attack elderly civilians & unleashed him🤡
So, here's a🧵 of the IDF using dogs systematically to maul Gazans:
March 24: Survivors of the Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital & its surrounding area describe field executions, home burnings, civilians being run over by tanks, & IDF dogs mauling both the living & the dead:
March 2024: A woman who survived the Israeli raid on around al-Shifa Hospital says the IDF forces attacked homes with dogs & killed the men, including her husband's uncle & brother.
She describes bodies laying in the streets, homes burned, & being forced to flee southward.
🚨UN finds evidence of systematic Israeli sexual violence against Gazan women, CHILDREN & men!
Women being stripped down to their underwear & sexually harassed while male relatives are forced to watch
Female soldier forced boys to dance semi-naked & filmed them while laughing🧵
2\ IDF soldiers sexually harassing minor girls in front of their male relatives & forcing women at gun point to strip down to their underwear, some are groped & touched.
Women who refuse are beaten, abused, detained for days & threatened to shoot to kill their children.
3\ IDF soldiers are robbing all valuables from the women, men & children whom they force to strip down to their underwear at gunpoint.
Soldiers deliberately destroy & grafitti extremely filthy sexual insults at women's rights organizations offices in Gaza & at homes they loot.
🚨Israel is RAPING kidnapped Gazans in the Sde Teiman prison camp
A Gazan died after penetration by an electric stick
A female IDF officer ordered the rape of a senior Gazan nurse
A UN worker forced to sit on a "hot metal stick"
This is the 4th report of IDF rape this year🧵
2\ Last April, Haaretz documented this testimony of rape
"They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped & forced to lie one on top of the other.... They were beaten with clubs & spat on. A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of Abu Halil & other prisoners"
3\ In Feb, UN experts reported at least two cases of Gazan women being kidnapped by the IDF & raped in detention.
The report didn't receive any significant mainstream media coverage & passed unnoticed. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
Hamas doesn't stand to lose much, but Israel might lose dearly
Palestinian reconciliation might get even more difficult
Hamas recently pledged to cooperate with the ICC investigation, Israel rejected it out of hand as "antisemitic"
2\ Netanyahu won't be able to step a foot on any of the 124 countries in Green, including the EU. Israeli ministers & IDF general would fear going to any of these countries in case of surprise arrest warrants.
The reputational damage to Israel could lead to halting arm deals, boycotts, declining foreign investments...
World leaders won't be eager to meet & be pictured with a guy accused of crimes against humanity.
Pressure can be increased on Israel's Western patrons to act.
3\ Hamas, however, is already isolated & sanctioned by the entire West
The 3 leaders targeted by the ICC prosecutor NEVER travel to an ICC member state (or are never allowed to in the 1st place)
Daif never steps a food outside Gaza. Sinwar barely traveled to Egypt a couple of times
Haniya only ever travelled to countries that are non-members of the ICC or didn't ratify the Rome Statute (e.g. Iran, Russia, Qatar, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Malaysia, Oman, Morrocco)
A🧵debunking Israel's talking points on Rafah through the words of top *Israeli* generals & leaders on why the invasion:
Will NOT defeat Hamas
May cost the lives of all hostages
Is NOT necessary
& that Hamas is "still alive & kicking" in every city the IDF invaded & destroyed...
2\ Israel's own (under)estimates is that there's still 5,000 armed Hamas militants in Northern Gaza after 210 days
IDF General (res.) Israel Ziv admits Hamas is "still alive & kicking" in northern Gaza after everything Israel did there, including destroying & damaging over 70% of all homes!
🚨Israel is RAPING & sexually assaulting Palestinian detainees:
"They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped & forced to lie one on top of the other.... They were beaten with clubs & spat on. A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of Abu Halil & other prisoners."
2\ Israel's sexual abuse of those detainees that spoke up was a routine: "Again they were stripped. This time they were kicked in the testicles. The guards would lunge at them & kick, lunge & kick, again & again. Nonstop brutality for 25 minutes. 'We are Bruce Lee,' the guards proclaimed. They shook them & shoved them around like balls from one corner of the room to the other, then moved them to their new cells in Block 6."
3\ Most Palestinian victims of Israeli sexual abuse would never speak up about their trauma out of fear of Israel arbitrarily detaining or killing them in revenge, as well as the social stigma & shame it brings