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Dec 11, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
đź§µClaims that Israel is "indiscriminately" bombing or causing disproportionate civilian deaths in Gaza can be easily proven false based on actions & statistics. Here are SEVEN items of evidence that debunk claims of war crimes, genocide, unprecedented civilian deaths, etc. 1/
ONE: Casualty ratios. Israel states 5,000-7,000 Hamas killed. Civilian combatant ratio is ~2:1. Battle of Mosul against ISIS was >3:1. Former Commander of UK forces in Afghanistan says ratio there 3:1-5:1. Israel is doing better than Western armies. 2/
TWO: Gaza has ~2.3mm people vs ~10,000 Civilians killed after 60+ days of what is described as massive bombing. If so incredibly massive & random (this is what indiscriminate means) in dense area how can it be only ~0.005 killed? Not even 1% after 2 months of random bombing? 3/ Image
THREE: Israel acted to evacuate north Gaza for several weeks before full ground invasion. During this time Sinwar reportedly moved south, Shifa was emptied. Israel lost the element of surprise to say the least. Why do that if indifferent to civilian deaths? 4/ Image
FOUR: Israeli troops are on the streets going door-to-door. 100+ IDF soldiers killed, 2000 wounded. Russia & Syria would just bomb Jabaliya off the map. Why won’t Israel carpet bomb saving many troops? Why risk IDF lives? Because Israel is in fact adhering to laws of war. 5/ Image
FIVE: Further evacuations in south with detailed sector system. Israel is literally telling Hamas in advance where it will attack, which no army in history has ever done. Solely for the purpose of trying not to kill civilians. The warning system is considered unprecedented. 6/ Image
SIX: Israel has allowed in food & humanitarian aid at ~86% of pre-war levels. Pre-war ~84 trucks of food & medicine entered Gaza; For the last seven weeks it’s close to same level (3,499/48=72). There is no intention to “starve” or “collectively punish” as a war aim. 7/ Image
SEVEN: Hamas rigged Gaza as a military base with schools, mosques & hospitals foremost. Tunnel system under cities is incredible and coalition did not face this in Mosul. Hamas all dress as civilians. Civilian combatant ratio is actually remarkable given all these challenges. 8/ Image
Some version of this question is often asked of Israeli officials: "how many civilian deaths is enough?" The answer is zero. Every civilian death is already too much & tragic. But it's all Hamas' fault for launching 10/7, refusal to surrender & hiding among civilians. END

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Oct 14
đź§µSTUNNING new statistic from Hamas' Ministry of Health shows adult males were killed at SIX TIMES the rate of adult women versus official lists showing only a 3x ratio. Huge gap exposes 1000s of male combatants removed from record but inadvertently revealed in this new data. 1/ Image
This data corroborates my analysis below that estimated 7,000 male combatants were not placed on ANY LIST by Hamas, to hide their losses. It may be even greater than that. Trump recently confirmed that 25,000 Hamas combatants were killed. 2/
Prior analysis of Hamas fatality data showed that even they acknowledged that 73% of fatalities of combat age were male. But it appears now it's even higher than that. Proving a highly targeted war against male combatants conducted by the IDF. 3/ Image
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Oct 9
🧵Hamas’ human shield strategy is well documented but still denied & downplayed. Israeli hostages provide key confirmation — held in homes (some with tunnel shafts), children’s rooms, hospitals, mosques and watched by “civilians.” See 10 examples; first from Aloni Cunio. 1/ Image
Eli Sharabi recounted his captivity in detail. His “first stop” into Gaza was to a mosque with a tunnel shaft leading to Hamas’ network. Also to apartment in an “ordinary children’s bedroom.” All detailed in this article and his new book “Hostage.” 2/ thefp.com/p/i-was-a-host…Image
Doron Katz Asher recounted to CNN how she and her daughters were kept in what she called a “so-called hospital” in Khan Younes because a hospital is “a place that is supposed to take care of people, but instead it was taken over by Hamas and they used it to hide hostages.” 3/ Image
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Sep 20
🧵Israel DID NOT kill 31 journalists in Yemen. It killed “Yemeni army staff" as article admits—specifically Houthi media operatives at Houthi sites. Houthis are a US-designated terrorist group. Geneva & US War Manual are clear: media personnel in the military are COMBATANTS. 1/ Image
Houthis are a US-designated terrorist group. These were not independent journalists—they were part of the Houthi propaganda arm. No one called ISIS or Al-Qaeda media operatives “journalists.” But with Israel, different rules apply. 2/ Image
Geneva Article 79 commentary makes clear that members of armed forces that are “connected with information"— like “staff of the Yemeni army’s official news outlet” (i.e. Houthi terrorists) are NOT protected as journalists. US War Manual agrees, see both key sections below: 3/ Image
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Sep 18
🧵Reuters photo of Al-Basma IVF clinic reveals UN fabricated “evidence” to accuse Israel of striking it to “prevent births." UN argues IDF must have intentionally targeted it since nearby buildings were less damaged—but buried photo showing the opposite. UN lied. More detail: 1/ Image
Reuters photo shows there was active combat here—perhaps a Hamas RPG cell in high rise. UN’s entire thesis collapses with this photo. There is no evidence clinic was hit by IDF. Media reports only cite clinic director who says it was an IDF shell but he was not even there! 2/ Image
Here is a closeup of clinic. Other photos show damage inside. Bullet holes and high rise damage proves there was active combat in area. Clinic building is intact thus “targeted strike” claim is false. High rise blast indicates THAT was the likely target. UN knowingly ignores. 3/ Image
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Sep 17
🧵UN's fake "genocide report" accuses Israel of intentionally striking Gaza Al-Basma IVF clinic to destroy embryos to “prevent births” and "destroy future of Palestinians." This claimed attack is a key aspect of the claim. But there is ZERO evidence for any of it. Analysis: 1/ Image
The entire evidence comes from ABC News media report from Apr 2024 regarding this incident that apparently happened in December 2023—4 months earlier. Clinic director said an Israeli shell hit the clinic but he was not there and does not even know the exact date of incident. 2/ Image
The UN Report does not have any more information than this yet make sweeping claims! They say they looked at photos (shown in the ABC report) and claim it “most probably” was an IDF tank shell. They cite the ABC report that the IDF said it was unaware of this incident. 3/ Image
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Sep 16
🧵I wrote a rebuttal of UN's new "report" accusing Israel of genocide for @UNWatch It is filled with fake data, fake intent, fake evidence. It erases Hamas. 10/7 is presented as something Israel did—including taking hostages (really!). See more below 1/ unwatch.org/un-watch-rebut…
10/7 is erased. Entire incident is presented as an Israeli attack, the reader won't know what happened. Hamas is erased too. They do not exist in the report. They are only even mentioned first 8 pages deep, and only and always in the context of Israeli claims & statements. 2/ Image
Even more evil: there is no mention that Hamas took hostages. The report deliberately erases the event and weaponizes the word to accuse ISRAEL of taking the Palestinians people "hostage." The first mention of the word is buried 27 pages deep. This is Orwellian inversion. 3/ Image
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