Israel is surgically & methodically assassinating anyone that tries to ensure the safe distribution of aid in Gaza & prevent looting & chaos
In 72 hours, Israel killed 3 top police officials, 24 social workers, & a prominent tribal leader who all worked on securing aid convoys🧵
2\ At al-Shifa hospital, Israel executed Brig. Gen Fayeq al-Mabhouh right after he succeeded in securing the entry of 2 aid convoys all the way to the very North of Gaza without looting or chaos for the 1st time in over 160 days (in collaboration with community leaders & the UN)
3\ Israel then bombed & assassinated Colonel Raed Al-Banna & his entire family, the director of the police investigative unit in northern Gaza, right after he managed to ensure the fair & safe distribution of the aid trucks that made it to the north.
4\ Israel also bombed & assassinated LTC Mahmoud Al-Bayoumi, Director of the Nuseirat Police Station, who stopped the looting of aid trucks that passed through Nuseirat.
He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his car.
5\ Yesterday, Israel ambushed & bombed Amjad Hathat, the director of the Emergency Committee in Gaza city, along with 23 social workers & members of the committee as they awaited incoming aid trucks at the Kuwait square (the entry point of aid) to secure its entry & prevent chaos
6\ Israel also assassinated Mukhtar (clan/community leader) Ismail Al-Nono, the head of the Salah al-Din area, along with his wife & family b/c he refused to collaborate with Israel & was part of the efforts to secure the entry of aid & prevent looting.
7\ Today, Israel also assassinated Mukhtar (community leader) Jamal Al-Kahlot, the director of tribal committee in the northern regions of the Gaza Strip, along with his wife & family b/c the tribal leaders refused to collaborate with the IDF & were cooperating with local police
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For the millionth time: a ceasefire ≠ another Oct 7
Israeli experts themselves say Oct 7 was all about “the stupidity, arrogance & negligence of the Israeli army & gov than about sophistication & danger on the part of Hamas”
Another Oct 7 is virtually impossible🧵
2\ On Oct 7, there were 23 IDF battalions gaurding settlers in the West Bank & *only 3 IDF battalions* guarding the Gaza envelop.
Surveillance balloons were down & unmaintained.
All intelligence reports & red flags were ignored.
Kibutzes unprotected
Dozens more of mistakes...
3\ The IDF failure was a classic "swiss cheese" model: many shields of defence, holes in each Once the holes in all layers of defence align, a "black swan" catastrophe ensues
On Oct 6, Israel was too confident Hamas'd NEVER attack & hence lowered all its guards (practical drift)
Before yesterday's "Flour Massacre", the IDF has been shooting indiscriminately for WEEKS at starved Gazans awaiting aid trucks at the exact same spot, virtually every single day!
A 🧵of some of these incidents:
Feb 28: IDF soldiers take potshots at famished desperate Gazans
2\ Feb 27: A child shot in the abdomen by IDF soldiers at the Rasheed street while waiting for aid trucks
Starved Gazans go to that street everyday with the hope of encountering an aid truck coming in, the IDF sprays them with bullets EVERY SINGLE DAY
3\ Feb 26: IDF soldiers fire indiscriminately at starved Gazan crowds at the Rasheed street who came desperately looking for aid trucks
The burden of proof is on Israel to show evidence that these underground servers were used by Hamas for military purposes & NOT to store & secure the data of the local civil government & public universities to protect national data from Israel's periodic bombing of gov facilities
2\ Israel's claim is that the alleged tunnel under UNRWA's headquarters was a mere "data center" & NOT a military "command & control" centre or an attack tunnel
Israel needs to prove such data centre had a security/military value to be a legitimate target
3\ This data centre could possibly belong to the local civil government to store all important national data (government websites, health records, police records, schools records...etc.) to protect it from being bombed by the same IDF that burned down Gaza's national archive.
Israeli students chase their history teacher & yell at him "cancer" & "son of a whore" b/c he dared to humanize Gazan & Palestinian civilians
Meir Baruchin was fired from his job & jailed in solitary confinement last November for this, but was just reinstated by a labour court🧵
2\ These are some of the Facebook posts that got Israeli history teacher Meir Baruchin fired & jailed in solitary confinement & demonized in mainstream media👇
All for posting pictures of Palestinians killed by Israel with the caption "bombed/executed by our excellent guys".
3\ Baruchin continues to be the subject of so much hate & harassment for daring to humanize Gaza.
He says "Any Israeli who expresses any sentiment with the resident of Gaza or opposition to the harming of innocents knows that he'll undergo political persecution".