Amid the ceasefire, horrifying glimpses of Israeli atrocities in Gaza are slowly emerging. A 🧵to document some of the footage Israel & Biden's admin didn't want you to see:
Decomposing & charred bodies, inc. women & children piled up in the streets; entire towns decimated...
2\ Al-Nada residential towers, Northern Gaza, wiped out with Israeli airstrikes.
Notice the buildings are bombed from the top, not bottom (which means there were no Hamas infrastructure underneath).
3\ Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza. Israel destroyed the entire town. Rubble as far as the eye can see!
4\ Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza. Israel destroyed the entire town.
Caption reads "there is no home left that's suitable for living".
5\ The Indonesian hospital in Northern Gaza, filled with decomposing bodies.
6\ The charred remains of a fetus that was burned along with the mother as they attempted to flee south. The bodies were recovered today.
7\ Kindergartens, homes, shops... all destroyed by Israeli strikes in Beit Lahia.
8\ Khan Younis, the "safe" south:
9\ Khuza'a today, the "safe south":
10\ Downtown central Gaza: Palestinian parliament to the right & the Rashad al-Shawwa cultural centre to the left (Gaza's biggest cultural centre).
PS. These are supposed to be paved roads, the person appears to be walking on dust from rubble & destroyed buildings!
11\ The 1st video is NOT old. It was taken TODAY at the coastal Rashid street, at al-Zahra, middle of the Gaza Strip.
And no, there's NO evidence they were "executed by Khamas".
Israel has uncontested control in that area & left those bodies to rot!
12\ Tel El-Hawa residential towers, Gaza's up & coming middle-class neighbourhood with the least Hamas presence.
The neighbourhood housed doctors, engineers, teachers, university professors, Palestinian Authority civil servants...
Israel reduced it to rubble!
13\ Sheikh Zayed residential city in northern Gaza, wiped out by Israel. Uninhabitable
14\ A family bombed by Israel as they attempted to flee south in compliance with Israel's orders.
Their bodies were left to rot in an area under IDF control.
It's likely some of them were wounded & bled to death, judging by the victim outside the vehicle.
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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%
🚨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…