Oct 5 2023: Israeli forces killed 3 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Abd al-Rahman Atta & Hudhayfah Fares. Israeli forces also prevented medical aid from reaching the victims & took their bodies hostage; an Israeli settler murdered Labib Dhamidi aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/5…
Sep 22 2023: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian 18-year old, Abdullah Abu Hasan, in Kafr Dan in the West Bank in a raid in the early hours of the morning. aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22…
Sep 19 2023: Palestinians in Gaza protested Israel's inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners & attacks on al-Aqsa mosque. In response, Israel murdered Yousef Salem Yousef Radwan w/ a shot in the head from behind reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
Sep 19 2023: Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians & wounded 30, some critically, during an overnight raid in Jenin’s Aqabat Jabr refugee camp. Israel prefers to kill Palestinians at night b/c of fewer cameras & fewer people awake to witness the crime. middleeastmonitor.com/20230920-jenin…
Sep 2023: The Israeli army raided Bir Zeit University (near Ramallah in the West Bank) & arrested nine students, including the head of the student council. npr.org/2023/09/24/120…
Sep 19 2023: Israel injured 7 Palestinians in Gaza, including 3 children, during protests in the Malka area, east of al-Zeitoun, in Gaza & in the Abu Safiya area, east of Jabalia, also in Gaza. reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
18 Sep 2023 Israeli forces injured 4 journalists wearing press gear in Gaza covering a protest, including al-Manara photographer Fadi Mahmoud Ramadan Al-Danaf, French Press Agency photographer Bilal Bassam Odeh Al-Sabagh, Anadolu Agency photographer Mustafa Muhammad Al-Badri Hassouna mezan.org/ar/post/46245/…
5-18 September 2023: During this period, Israeli forces:
1) injured 4 Gazan fishermen for committing the crime of fishing 2) on 15 Sep, Israel bombed Gaza, injuring 1 3) on 13 September, Palestinians protested in Gaza, Israeli forces shot at them injuring 15 Palestinians, including 6 children 4) on Sep 9, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child in Hebron; 5) on Sep 5, Israeli forces raided Nur Shams Camp (Tulkarm, West Bank) & killed 1 Palestinian.
Altogether, on the eve of Oct. 7th, Israel has killed more 200 Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2023, on pace to be the deadliest year on record in nearly 20 years. al-monitor.com/originals/2023…
Before that, 2022 was the deadliest year on record since 2004. In 2022, Israel killed 146 Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. btselem.org/press_releases…
This came after 15yrs of an Israeli-led, Egyptian supported siege on Gaza, making the place "unlivable" already in 2020, according to the @UN. Note as well that imposing a blockade is act of war. The origins of the current war can be traced to June '07
A brief history of Israel's violation of ceasefire agreements. 🧵
In December 2024, Israel violated its 1974 Agreement on Disengagement with Syria, occupying a 235-square-kilometer demilitarized buffer zone established b/w Israel & Syria after the Oct. 1973 War. timesofisrael.com/un-slams-viola…
Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement it signed w/ Hezbollah in Lebanon in late November 2024 more than 470 times, killing 32 people & injured 39. aa.com.tr/en/middle-east…
How Israeli soldiers disguise themselves as civilians to murder Palestinians (perfidy). A 🧵
It's a violation of international humanitarian law to feign civilian or non-combatant status during armed hostilities (i.e. when Israeli soldiers wear civilian garb, or use civilian vehicles, or dress up as aid workers or doctors to kill Palestinians). casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossar…
On Dec. 19, 2024, Israeli soldiers used an ambulance as protection to carry out an operation in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank to murder the 80-year-old Halimeh Saleh Awail & the 25-year-old Qasi Hamid. A textbook case of perfidy. theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…
Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1949-1959, a brief history 🧵
Most people know about the Nakba: from Nov. 1947 - Dec. 1948, Zionist militias/Israeli military expelled 750,000 Palestinians from what became Israel. But most people do not know the Nakba continued long after 1948. It was not a historical event, it was an ongoing process. ⤵️
In Feb-Mar 1949, after the Egypt-Israel armistice agreement was signed, Israeli forces expelled 3,100 Palestinians in Faluja & Iraq al-Manshiyya from their homes. The Israeli town Kiryat Gat was built on their ruins. This is Benny Morris's (The Birth, ch.9) description:
How Israel exploits US presidential elections in its war on Palestinians. A 🧵
Once every 4 years, with all eyes fixated on suburban voters in swing states in the US, the Israeli government does something heinous: ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes, breaks a ceasefire agreement w/ Palestinians or targets Palestinians for execution:
On Nov. 5, 2024, the Israeli military said: Palestinians expelled from their homes in North Gaza will NOT be allowed to return home, a policy first made public on US election day. Incidentally, Netaynahu also fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…