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Was there a ceasefire on Oct. 6th 2023? A 🧵
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…
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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…
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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…

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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/…Image
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.

Some more stats for this period: ochaopt.org/poc/5-18-septe…Image
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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…
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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…
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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
For more content like this: PalestineNexus.com
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Aug 6
The last major case of intentional starvation in Palestine was during World War I. lessons from history. ⤵️
~11-16% of the population of what is today Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon died during the war, mostly from famine or famine related diseases. About 500,000 people.

During the war, the British, Russian & French navies blockaded the Eastern Mediterranean coast for a prolonged period of time, from December 1914 until 1918.

The blockade led to economic collapse in Palestine and elsewhere in the region. Tens of thousands of people lost their means of livelihood as a result.

The blockade led a shortage of critical goods, such as petroleum, essential to cook food and heat homes. In Palestine, the price of petroleum skyrocketed to five or six times its prewar price by April 1915, just six months into the war.
But Palestine is fertile and can produce its own food. Here, the problem was:

1) A massive locust attack in 1915 destroyed a lot of food.

2) the Ottoman government requisitioned the animals & took over the railways for military use.

Thus, it became prohibitively expensive to ship food via donkeys, camels or railways. The Ottoman State sabotaged the food delivery system.
Read 6 tweets
Jul 10
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was not a historical event or two or three that happened in 1948, 1967 or 2023. It's an ongoing process, a structure, that began in the late 19th century and has been ongoing to the present day. ⤵️
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, Oct. 7, 2023 - the present: palestinenexus.com/articles/ethni…Image
Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1968-1993: palestinenexus.com/articles/israe…Image
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Jun 26
Some of @PeterBeinart's best clips on the relationship between Zionism & the Jewish tradition. Trigger warning if you are a Zionist. A 🧵
How political Zionism is inherently oppressive:
How the institutional American Jewish life can no longer be considered Jewish:
Read 6 tweets
Jun 17
A brief history of Israeli leaders saying Iran = Nazis 🧵.
June 16, 2025: “We’ve targeted their top nuclear scientists ... it’s basically Hitler’s nuclear team.” -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internati…
June 12, 2025: “Eighty years ago, the Jewish people were the victims of a Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime...today, the Jewish state refuses to be a victim of a nuclear Holocaust perpetrated by the Iranian regime.” -Netanyahu msn.com/en-ca/news/wor…Image
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May 25
A brief history of Israeli Jewish support for mass murder in the Gaza Strip. A 🧵
In March 2025, a poll revealed Israeli Jewish society's support for genocide:

→ 82% support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza
→ 47% believe the Israeli army should “act like the biblical Israelites under Joshua in Jericho—killing all inhabitants of a conquered city"
haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-…
A Jan. 2024 poll found 95% of Jewish Israelis thought the Israeli military was using either the "appropriate" amount of force or "too little" force in Gaza at a time when Israel had already killed >25,700 Palestinians in Gaza. en-social-sciences.tau.ac.il/sites/socsci-e…Image
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May 14
Zionism was unpopular among most Jews for the first six decades of its Jewish existence, 1870s-1930s.

Anyone who tells you anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism apparently believes that the overwhelming majority of world Jewry were themselves anti-Semitic from 1870-1940. A 🧵
Before WWI, the overwhelming majority of US American Jews were non-Zionist or anti-Zionist: Image
Even in the 1920s and 1930s, most US American Jews were still non- or anti-Zionist: Image
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