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Jun 24, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
🧵Israel issued response to UN report claiming 6 IDF incidents “may” have violated int’l law. This little noticed response is excellent rebuttal for all claims of war crimes. Israel also for first time identifies by name combatants included in Hamas casualty lists. Analysis: 1/Image
Israel demolishes UN claims several ways. First it notes UN relied entirely on media reports & public information, that inside information for details of military attacks cannot be revealed in middle of war. This is the fatal flaw of all NGO, media & UN claims of war crimes. 2/Image
Israel for the first time addresses how assessments of the 10/31 Jabalia attack are all flawed. They ignore that many Hamas assets were targetted not just a commander, and the “military advantage” assessed the combined benefit as a whole – which UN analysis willfully ignores. 3/Image
Israel points out that UN, as do all NGOs, don’t offer any actual military experts and do not know what weapons work in a specific situation to accomplish the military objective. It’s always speculation from amateurs who don’t know things like “fuse, angle of attack, timing.” 4/Image
NGOs, and media especially, act as if IDF has obligation to disclose information about each attack even during hostilities. It’s a preposterous expectation never demanded of any other army. When IDF does not provide real time details it's then seen as evidence of war crime. 5/Image
This appears to be first official Israeli document that is critical of UN reliance on “Hamas fatality figures.” Response lists many flaws that independent analysts have been exposing for months, such as children who were really militants and fake ID numbers. 6/Image
Israel also for the first time offers specific examples of identified militants included in the April 30 fatality list published by Hamas. Here are a few the Israeli report shows. Israel should provide a more complete analysis of the Hamas list. 7/Image
This paragraph in Israel’s response is an excellent reminder of how assessments of “proportionality” are difficult to assess without all the information, it’s not just about casualty counts, and always suffers from “hindsight bias.” 8/ Image
International law on proportionality is based on “expected” loss of civilian life versus “anticipated” military advantage. A results only based analysis is fundamentally flawed. One has to know IDF’s analysis PRIOR to attack to assess if it violated int’l law. 9/Image
This is best reponse yet that Israel/IDF has published debunking UN claims. It shows how UN, NGOs & media are just making things up based on media reports, with no knowledge of military weaponry & tactics, relying on Hamas numbers. See report link. END embassies.gov.il/UnGeneva/NewsA…

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Oct 14
đź§µSTUNNING new statistic from Hamas' Ministry of Health shows adult males were killed at SIX TIMES the rate of adult women versus official lists showing only a 3x ratio. Huge gap exposes 1000s of male combatants removed from record but inadvertently revealed in this new data. 1/ Image
This data corroborates my analysis below that estimated 7,000 male combatants were not placed on ANY LIST by Hamas, to hide their losses. It may be even greater than that. Trump recently confirmed that 25,000 Hamas combatants were killed. 2/
Prior analysis of Hamas fatality data showed that even they acknowledged that 73% of fatalities of combat age were male. But it appears now it's even higher than that. Proving a highly targeted war against male combatants conducted by the IDF. 3/ Image
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Oct 9
🧵Hamas’ human shield strategy is well documented but still denied & downplayed. Israeli hostages provide key confirmation — held in homes (some with tunnel shafts), children’s rooms, hospitals, mosques and watched by “civilians.” See 10 examples; first from Aloni Cunio. 1/ Image
Eli Sharabi recounted his captivity in detail. His “first stop” into Gaza was to a mosque with a tunnel shaft leading to Hamas’ network. Also to apartment in an “ordinary children’s bedroom.” All detailed in this article and his new book “Hostage.” 2/ thefp.com/p/i-was-a-host…Image
Doron Katz Asher recounted to CNN how she and her daughters were kept in what she called a “so-called hospital” in Khan Younes because a hospital is “a place that is supposed to take care of people, but instead it was taken over by Hamas and they used it to hide hostages.” 3/ Image
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Sep 20
🧵Israel DID NOT kill 31 journalists in Yemen. It killed “Yemeni army staff" as article admits—specifically Houthi media operatives at Houthi sites. Houthis are a US-designated terrorist group. Geneva & US War Manual are clear: media personnel in the military are COMBATANTS. 1/ Image
Houthis are a US-designated terrorist group. These were not independent journalists—they were part of the Houthi propaganda arm. No one called ISIS or Al-Qaeda media operatives “journalists.” But with Israel, different rules apply. 2/ Image
Geneva Article 79 commentary makes clear that members of armed forces that are “connected with information"— like “staff of the Yemeni army’s official news outlet” (i.e. Houthi terrorists) are NOT protected as journalists. US War Manual agrees, see both key sections below: 3/ Image
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Sep 18
🧵Reuters photo of Al-Basma IVF clinic reveals UN fabricated “evidence” to accuse Israel of striking it to “prevent births." UN argues IDF must have intentionally targeted it since nearby buildings were less damaged—but buried photo showing the opposite. UN lied. More detail: 1/ Image
Reuters photo shows there was active combat here—perhaps a Hamas RPG cell in high rise. UN’s entire thesis collapses with this photo. There is no evidence clinic was hit by IDF. Media reports only cite clinic director who says it was an IDF shell but he was not even there! 2/ Image
Here is a closeup of clinic. Other photos show damage inside. Bullet holes and high rise damage proves there was active combat in area. Clinic building is intact thus “targeted strike” claim is false. High rise blast indicates THAT was the likely target. UN knowingly ignores. 3/ Image
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Sep 17
🧵UN's fake "genocide report" accuses Israel of intentionally striking Gaza Al-Basma IVF clinic to destroy embryos to “prevent births” and "destroy future of Palestinians." This claimed attack is a key aspect of the claim. But there is ZERO evidence for any of it. Analysis: 1/ Image
The entire evidence comes from ABC News media report from Apr 2024 regarding this incident that apparently happened in December 2023—4 months earlier. Clinic director said an Israeli shell hit the clinic but he was not there and does not even know the exact date of incident. 2/ Image
The UN Report does not have any more information than this yet make sweeping claims! They say they looked at photos (shown in the ABC report) and claim it “most probably” was an IDF tank shell. They cite the ABC report that the IDF said it was unaware of this incident. 3/ Image
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Sep 16
🧵I wrote a rebuttal of UN's new "report" accusing Israel of genocide for @UNWatch It is filled with fake data, fake intent, fake evidence. It erases Hamas. 10/7 is presented as something Israel did—including taking hostages (really!). See more below 1/ unwatch.org/un-watch-rebut…
10/7 is erased. Entire incident is presented as an Israeli attack, the reader won't know what happened. Hamas is erased too. They do not exist in the report. They are only even mentioned first 8 pages deep, and only and always in the context of Israeli claims & statements. 2/ Image
Even more evil: there is no mention that Hamas took hostages. The report deliberately erases the event and weaponizes the word to accuse ISRAEL of taking the Palestinians people "hostage." The first mention of the word is buried 27 pages deep. This is Orwellian inversion. 3/ Image
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