🧵Claims 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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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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🧵+972 Magazine is a propaganda group spreading lies about Israel’s war conduct, under cover of “independent journalism.” Its fake news gets cited by main stream media as reliable, even the ICJ "genocide" filing cited its work. Here is a sample of recent key lies & omissions: 1/
Recent 972 article cited by NY Times columnist claims horrors at Israeli detention center based on lawyer who spoke to Palestinian prisoner who says he saw bad things, such as soldiers sending dogs to sexually assault prisoners. This alone invalidates entire article and +972. 2/
+972 piece from Nov 30, which made it to the ICJ document charging Israel with genocide (cited in footnote 194), used entirely unnamed sources claiming the "real purpose" of many IDF attacks was "damage to civilians" meaning nothing military in mind. PERFECT for ICJ filing. 3/
🧵GAZA CASUALTY UPDATE: Hamas claims 37,400 fatalities but only 27,700 identified. IDF killed ~17,000 combatants; civilian/combatant ratio 1:1. Chart below summarizes key estimated fatality stats. Also: Hamas lists 12 people named Mohammed or Mahmoud as female. Key analysis: 1/
First, a review of "identified" fatalities from Apr 30 list (last one provided by Hamas) with first name Mohammed or Mahmoud reveals 12 are listed as female. Analysis not conducted for every male name. Just another of many fatal flaws in Hamas' list of identified fatalities. 2/
Last Hamas list of identified fatalities was from Apr 30 at 24,646, but 16% had missing, fake or duplicate ID, listed dead in prior war, male listed as female, etc. Identified deaths per Hamas increased to 27,706 at Jun 22 or +3,020 since Apr 30, but new names not released. 3/
🧵IPC June report admits no famine in Gaza now or ever. Libel of “intentional starvation” & “starvation as method of war” are debunked. Mortality rate always proved it was a lie; famine would mean at least 20,000 deaths from hunger but only ~30 claimed by Hamas. Analysis: 1/
IPC admits mortality excluding deaths “caused by violence” confirmed “no evidence... Famine thresholds for mortality had been breached.” So claims of “genocide” due to “intentional starvation” fully contradicted by IPC, which should bolster case against bogus ICJ filing. 2/
While the IPC continues to warn of “risk of Famine” as NGOs have been saying since Oct 2023, the IPC’s “most likely scenario” for North Gaza, where it was always claimed to be worse, is for similar levels of aid expected, meaning no famine is most likely. 3/
🧵Israel issued response to UN report claiming 6 IDF incidents “may” have violated int’l law. This little noticed response is excellent rebuttal for all claims of war crimes. Israel also for first time identifies by name combatants included in Hamas casualty lists. Analysis: 1/
Israel demolishes UN claims several ways. First it notes UN relied entirely on media reports & public information, that inside information for details of military attacks cannot be revealed in middle of war. This is the fatal flaw of all NGO, media & UN claims of war crimes. 2/
Israel for the first time addresses how assessments of the 10/31 Jabalia attack are all flawed. They ignore that many Hamas assets were targetted not just a commander, and the “military advantage” assessed the combined benefit as a whole – which UN analysis willfully ignores. 3/
🧵Thread by @LeeMordechai has 4mm views. He engages in rape inversion, omitting and doubting Hamas rape but supporting claim of IDF rape of Gazans pushed by pro-Hamas NGO. His vile report has 100s of lies, errors & omissions. Part II exposing dishonesty of @HebrewU professor: 1/
Mordechai writes word “rape” 9 times, 2 support denial of Hamas rape. Other mentions of rape are claims IDF raped Pals. He does not mention Hamas rape in his short section on 10/7. Mordechai does not say it directly, but the choices in his report show he denies Hamas rape. 2/
Here are the other seven times Mordechai writes “rape” promoting unfounded claims of IDF rape in deliberate inversion of this crime. Mordechai cites pro-Hamas NGO Euro-Med that does not provide any actual evidence of IDF rape, simply claims the press “documents” rape. 3/
🧵Thread by @LeeMordechai has 3.4mm views but is filled with 100s of lies, errors, misrepresentations and importantly, omissions. It’s a mash up of every NGO, UN & media report claiming Israeli evil and absolves Hamas of wrongdoing. Let's examine the intellectual dishonesty: 1/
Very early Mordechai reveals he is writing propaganda claiming for "context" that Gaza “is one of most densely populated areas on planet” even though Tel Aviv is ~50% denser. He compares to NYC but fails to realize NYC is 2x dense as Gaza. So we know where this is going. 2/
To Mordechai, Hamas does not really exist. 500km of tunnels, rockets fired are not mentioned, nor use of human shields. It’s IDF vs Gaza civilians only in his narrative. Next examples characterize his methodology – fake & cherry picked statistics, comparisons & conclusions. 3/