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Muhammad Shehada

Nov 18, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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December 2021: Israeli tanks go 100-200 meters inside Gaza to raze a strawberry farm while a Hamas militant prevents farmers from attacking the Israelis. How come?

🧵Explaining the Israeli-Hamas "ceasefire understandings" & why Israel never went for a formal ceasefire agreement

2\ The Israeli-Hamas "understandings" were brokered by Egypt, Qatar & UN

Hamas polices Israel's siege from the inside, prevents by force anyone from attacking Israel during periods of calm in return for Israel alleviating the blockade

Israel only partially fulfilled its promise

3\ Many attempts & proposals were made to cement "the calm" & establish a formal permanent ceasefire that'd see a mutual full cessation of hostilities in return for lifting the siege on Gaza

Israel killed the Hamas leader advancing this deal in 2012 & turned down later proposals

4\ In return for maintaining calm, Israel only gave Gazans occasional crumbs of mercy: e.g allowing 17,000 people to work in Israel, Qatari cash aid..

Gazans call these "sedatives" b/c Israel maintains "we won't allow real & long-term development in Gaza"
maariv.co.il/news/military/…

5\ The situation in Gaza continued to be dire: a permanent state of non-life where the majority of the population are unemployed & living beneath the poverty line.

Israel's occasional crumbs of mercy were a tool of blackmail: e.g. keep quiet or we will re-close the fishing zone.

6\ Israel's gov perfectly understood the only way to end Gaza's plight & get more sustainable calm would be to lift the blockade & go for a formal ceasefire.

An Israeli minister proposed re-opening Gaza's airport & seaport under int. supervision. Netanyahu turned him down...

7\ One reason why Israel never went for a permanent ceasefire was that it dehumanized Gaza so much & for so long that the only acceptable way to discuss Gaza became in terms of strength & deterrence.

Israeli politicians would only compete in terms of who can be tougher on Gaza!

8\ Israel's gov also had strategic gaols of keeping Gaza on the brink & under Hamas' control, to:

Use Gaza as a scarecrow to kill any discussion about ending its occupation in the West Bank. "If we leave, Hamas will take over like in Gaza"

To push Gazans to leave permanently!

9\ Even the informal Israel-Hamas "understanding" was violated repeatedly
Israel kept shooting at farmers & fishermen almost daily

Israel kept flying fighter jets & predator drones equipped with rockets 24/7 inside Gaza with an unbearable buzzing noise that gets loudest at night

10\ Israel kept heavily restricting Gaza's imports & exports & banning people from going in/out of Gaza except for very few humanitarian exceptions.

"We allow them to keep their heads above water, but not beyond that" Israel's defence minister 2018
makorrishon.co.il/news/12431/

11\ Whenever a violent escalation erupted, mediators would rush to Gaza to restore calm & go back to the "understandings". A formal ceasefire was NEVER finalized.

That very calm was always inherently violent for Gaza's population; a slow death & permanent state of non-life.

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Nov 19

🚨Israel is aiding ISIS-linked terrorists & criminals to sow chaos & famine in Gaza:

Shadi al-Sofi, a wanted murderer & son of an informant/collaborator with Israel, & Yasser abu Shabab, a drug dealer, are the main warlords responsible for looting most aid under IDF protection.

They formed gangs of over 200 armed criminals & “established a military like compound” (per the UN) in an emptied "death zone" fully under IDF control, where they looted only this Saturday night about 100 aid trucks at once.

This way Israel can absolve itself of responsibility for its deliberate starvation policy in Gaza and say “look, we’re letting aid in, it’s Hamas’ fault that food doesn’t reach people” (as claimed by Senator Jon Fetterman yesterday).

IDF soldiers never fire at those gang members as they loot aid right in front of Israeli tanks & troops in a closed military zone that no Gazan is allowed into. The IDF only fires at local policemen whenever they try to prevent the looting.

Yasser Abu Shabab was arrested by Gaza's local police multiple times in the past for drug smuggling & trading, which is often facilitated by ISIS groups in Sinai.

Hamas militants attempted to eliminate him yesterday in an attack that killed 11 of his gang, including his brother & partner Fathi & the gang's accountant. 30 others were wounded.

Shadi Al-Sofi murdered in 2020 Jabr al-Qeeq, a PLFP member whom Israel had sentenced to life & imprisoned for 15 years for killing al-Sofi's father during the 1st Intifada for spying on Palestinians for Israel.

Al-Sofi was convicted in a Gazan court & the local police captured him in a special operation in late 2020, before he broke out of prison with the help of ISIS-linked militants & was smuggled out of Gaza to Sinai, then reportedly to Israel's Negev. He returned to Gaza with the IDF ground invasion where he now co-leads the criminal gangs that loot aid & sabotage humanitarian work under IDF protection.

2\ This is the moment Gaza' police captured Shadi al-Sofi in 2020 for murdering Jabr al-Qeeq.

Al-Sofi was sentenced to death in court, before militants broke him out of prison & smuggled him into Sinai in 2021, only to return to Gaza 3 years later with the IDF invasion

3\Haaretz confirms the gangs looting aid under IDF protection are affiliated with terrorist groups like ISIS

The gangs operate just 100 meters from IDF tanks & troops, who only fire at civilians or policemen entering the area but never at those gangs
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

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Nov 15

🚨Israel is systematically RAPING Palestinians, inc children & elderly, as a weapon of war:

2 journalists provide frightening testimonies about how IDF soldiers would randomly select a group of Gazan hostages, unleash dogs to "tear at their skin & flesh", RAPE them & film it🧵

2\ Israeli soldiers beat to a pulp then RAPED a Gazan hostage with a fire extinguisher, emptied inside him until he lost consciousness! Doesn't speak since

Another was stripped naked, soldiers put a dog on top of him to rip his flesh & electrocuted his genitals with high voltage

3\ Israeli soldiers are torturing & RAPING Gazan hostages at random; the elderly & children are not spared!

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Nov 12

🚨🚨Israel engineering a famine in Gaza:
The IDF allows armed criminals to attack, loot & block a large portion of the aid shipments to Gaza.

This happens less than 100 meters from Israeli tanks & soldiers, who only fire at Gazan police whenever they try to stop the looting🧵

2\ Creating "looting zones" is Israel's way of saying "look, we're letting aid into Gaza. It's not our fault there's starvation"

These "looting zones" are fully under Israeli control. If any Gaza civilian tries to approach them, they'd be executed immediately. This is deliberate

3\ The aid trucks Israel allows criminal gangs to loot are the ones carrying "the vast majority of the food & equipment Gazans desperately need".

Again, Israel troops NEVER fire at those gangs. They only fire at local policemen whenever they try to prevent the looting.

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Nov 8

Mainstream media is deliberately NOT showing us the other side of the Amsterdam clashes; Israeli hooligans attacking local residents, chanting genocidal slogans & vandalising Palestinian flags.

Classic propaganda & disinformation by omission, followed by selective condemnations.

2\ As always, the story for mainstream media begins as soon as Israelis are attacked, never when they attack. They're always THE victim & only victim. Innocents only persecuted b/c of their faith of ethnicity is the classic narrative!

3\ Violence against civilians is never justified, no matter by who against whom.

But for mainstream media & Western politicians, they have broken moral compass that never point any fingers of blame when Israelis are violent. They only wake up when it's the other way around!

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When the genocide ends, I can write a giant book on mainstream media journalists who constantly wasted hours & hours of my & my colleagues time to do unrequited toil & collect indisputable evidence for them of Israeli crimes, only to NEVER publish a single word, ever!

2\ Journalist A last Dec: can you send me geolocation, footage from multiple angles, eyewitnesses, dates... of Israel shooting civilians raising white flags?

They never published a word

A few weeks ago same journalist: can you send me more recent incidents, the story is old now

Journalist B: can you send me the names of every single bakery Israel has bombed since the start of the war, their geolocation, date of bombing, footage, eyewitnesses...

Basically do the whole job for them unaccredited & they slap their name on it.

Story never published!

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@muhammadshehad2

Oct 8

This was Gaza 5 MONTHS before October 7🧵

Western govs & media will always pretend violence starts ONLY whenever Israelis are attacked. That's when history begins!

B/c we are *expected* to be murdered, crippled & dispossessed & keep quiet. That's "peace" to them, that's normal!

2\ This was Gaza 5 MONTHS before Oct 7:
Israel bombs a shelter for people with disabilities & special needs in Jabaliya on May 13, 2023

Did you see any reference to this in a single mainstream media outlet or in a single speech by a US or EU leader?

3\ This was Gaza 5 MONTHS before Oct 7:

Israel bombs Gaza's most famous dentist, Dr. Jamal Khaswan. His daughter reached al-Shifa hospital with her dad's corpse & didn't know he was killed

"Where's my dad?" She kept asking..

Why are these atrocities are unheard of in the West?