⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️🧵
Not many are talking about this, but it is heavily reported.
In recent days, Israeli forces intensified wholesale destruction / controlled detonations of entire residential blocks in Gaza.
Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, & Beit Lahia have been declared Disaster Zones. 🧵
Remember the videos Israeli soldiers used to publish, full of glee, as they count down to detonate entire residential blocks /universities in Gaza?
The soldiers don't post as many videos now (i guess someone told them it looks bad?) but the demolitions have actually intensified.
Residents in Gaza are hearing those huge detonations daily, hourly even.
On Friday, rumors circulated in Gaza city that earth quake had hit... Except it wasn't natural - The shake was a result of another huge demolition in the north areas.
Whole neighbourhoods are disappearing.
This footage was released last Monday.
We are not seeing the video because those soldiers shared it. On the contrary, we are only able to see it after it was forcefully obtained when fighters downed the Israeli drone over Gaza.
It is horrifying to think what we are NOT seeing.
Israel continues to prevent journalists from entering Gaza, despite repeated statements endorsed by major networks, demanding press be allowed in to document the reality on the ground.
Recently, Israel seized @AP equipment and banned it broadcasting live footage of Gaza's North.
Over the past 24 hours, Palestinians were able to return to some areas in Jabalia. Some families were not able to locate their homes. Destruction is everywhere, but some blocks were just made to disappear.
Totally flat. Disappeared, some buried below the sand...wide, open space.
This is systematic. An attempt at total destruction and erasure of Palestinian life in Gaza, this time in the north.
No words.
Genocide is the systematic destruction & erasure of a people.
The Zionists have been doing it to the Palestinian people in Gaza over the past 8 months, a charge supported by the world's highest authorities on the Genocide Convention, to global inaction.
Maybe what I said earlier wasn't 100% accurate, Israeli soldiers seemingly never ceased to share footage of themselves gleefully perpetrating the most heinous War Crimes - the systematic destruction of life in the Gaza Strip.
Those in my age group are target for summary execution by Israel's genocidal forces in Gaza. Young males are being executed, often infront of family and loved ones, in a savage manner, by soldiers who are proud.
All Gaza, especially North.
They also get hit by targeted strikes, whether they're carrying their bicycles, flying drones to film a massacre site, or seeking to collect grass/flour to bring home to your starving children...
Palestinian men are being subject to a systematic mass slaughter.
All the young brains, the smart ones, the technologists. Dozens of programmers, information technology experts, and workers in computer engineering. Systematically slaughtered by the Zionists in Gaza. euromedmonitor.org/en/article/622…
Israeli armed drones killed several young Palestinians in the camp.
1,400 Israeli soldiers raided a total of 400 homes, during which they destroyed furniture, walls, cars and shops. They also defaced pictures of murdered Palestinians. 2/
The soldiers arrested HUNDREDS, detained them in open rain.
One of the young men who were detained said the forces assaulted them one by one - severe beatings & insults. He mentioned soldiers shot a young man when he shouted back, he got seriously injured.
Some of you never heard of #NeveYaakov settlement before last night's fatal attack. Having grown up just across from it, I thought to provide a couple bits of info.
I think its important considering this settlement's location & the fact its home to the "IDF" Central Command HQ.
In 1924, an American Zionist group purchased 62 dunams of land from Beit Hanina landowners. They settled it 1925-48. The population did not exceed a few hundred who lived peacefully before abandoning it as the eve of Al-Nakba when news came that Jordanian army mobilized to enter.
The settlement we know today was established in 1972, but on private & titled Palestinian lands illegally confiscated by Israeli authorities in August 1970 following occupation of E. Jerusalem. Prior, there was a Jordanian military base where land had been bought by Jews in 20s.
🧵Thread on two incidents of Israeli State-Sanctioned mob violence that took place over the past weekend, in Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem) & Huwara (Nablus).
Evidence of collusion by Israeli authorities (Military & Police) in enabling & facilitating the anti-Palestinian mob violence.
The organized mob violence this weekend happened following incessant incitement by Israeli politicians who are in the middle of vicious electioneering before the #Israelex22.
Evidence from Israel's Interior Minister Shaked, MK Ben Gvir, & Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor King.
First, Jerusalem:
Jewish-supremacy mobs roam streets of Jlm on Thursday nights. flag waving Israelis chant anti-Palestinian chants, and "look for an Arab" to harass or beat. Their goal "that Arabs will be afraid to walk around here" 13tv.co.il/item/news/poli…
This morning, we went down to harvest the olives in our land in Wadi Al-Rababa. It was a wonderful morning, solidarity from our neighbors in Silwan and other friends in the city was apparent, we weren't alone.
However, the settlers nearby had their eyes fixed on us all morning.
The settlers, also known as "Nature Authority" called the police, of course... they claimed we were in a "closed zone", and that we shouldn't pick the trees in our own land lol.
3.5 hours after we began picking, a large Israeli force entered the land, as if acting on the orders of the settler leaders from the "nature authority". The settler was first to harass us, demanding we show IDs, and the police continued acting on behalf of the settlers. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
On Yom Kippur, the military of the Israeli occupation regime had raided the town of Deir Al-Hattab, adjacent to Nablus's east. They've besieged a home, and have reportedly shot dead one Palestinian and seriously injured several others.
Pal MoH: Alaa Zaghal, 21 year old, shot in the head & killed in Deir Al-Hattab, E. Nablus, this afternoon.
The Palestine TV crew came under Israeli fire, and are besieged as they cover the raid in Deir Al-Hattab, 2 of the crew were intentionally targeted, shot in torso by Israeli bullets. Main Correspondent isn't able to move or retrieve equipment as crew continue to come under fire.