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 genocidal rhetoric in Israel BEFORE Oct. 7th, 2023. A 🧵
Zionist leaders have convinced themselves Palestinian Arabs were genocidal since the 1920s. Yosef Hecht (leader of the Haganah in the 1920s) confided in his diary, “we are always persecuted [&] murdered by the majority of ‘civilized’ peoples, or savage & cruel [peoples] like the Arabs…their intention toward us is not only to humiliate but also to destroy [us] physically.” haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
In Aug. 1947, David Ben Gurion said: “The aim of the Arab attacks on Zionism is not robbery, terror, or stopping Zionist growth, but total destruction of the Yishuv.” They are not “political adversaries,” but “pupils & teachers of Hitler, who claim there is only one way to solve the Jewish question… total annihilation." source:
Was Zionism about rescuing Jews from persecution? A 🧵
Zionists believe Zionism was primarily about saving Jews fleeing persecution. Yet key Zionist leaders from the 1880s-1948 rejected this idea, believing the interests of the state-to-be trumped the interests of persecuted Jews. This 🧵 is a history of the #1 Zionist myth today.
From 1880s-1914, the Zionist leadership rejected the overwhelming majority of Jews hoping to settle in Ottoman Palestine. Arthur Ruppin and Menahem Sheinkin, in charge of Zionist immigration policy, told ~61% of Jews who wanted to move to the colonies not to come. Source:
A brief history of Zionism (@harari_yuval style) 🧵
Zionism is about 500 years old. To tell a history of Zionism Harari style, we thus need to spend 2/3rds of the story on the pre-1850s period.
2/3rds of our story is before there were very many (any?) Jewish Zionists.
There was a return to scripture in the 16th century. the attitude was, to hell with the catholic church. go straight to the texts. the bible. translate it. learn the stories by heart. know the old testament inside out.
Zionism says Jews should have a Jewish State in Palestine.
When Jewish Zionists developed this idea (1870s-1890s), Palestine was 90-95% non-Jewish.
At the time, 0 Zionists believed it was possible to establish a Jewish State in a land that was 90%-95% non-Jewish.
Instead, 100% of Jewish Zionists believed Palestine needed to be Judaized.
If you are trying to understand whether "Judaizing" a country that's mostly not Jewish is racist or not, ask yourself, if you happened to be one of those non-Jews (i.e. Arab Palestinian) living there...
A brief history of Israel's use of poisonous chemicals to take over Palestinian land & kill Palestinians. A 🧵
Sep. 13, 2024: Israeli settlers killed dozens of sheep belonging to 2 Palestinian brothers in the Bedouin community of Arab Al-Malihat (near Jericho in West Bank), by pouring poison into the water that the animals drink from. middleeastmonitor.com/20240913-israe…
Oct. 11, 2023: Israeli warplanes used white phosphorus over the Gaza city port. White phosphorus has an incendiary effect that can severely burn people & set structures, fields, & other civilian objects in the vicinity on fire. hrw.org/news/2023/10/1…