Human Rights Watch's new "genocide" report is a farce. It centers on alleged water deprivation and claims that "thousands of Gazans have died from dehydration," yet cannot substantiate a single case where someone definitively died of dehydration.
Rather, they rely on hearsay and testimonies from Hamas Health Ministry officials and either political activist doctors or "useful idiot" doctors. Dehydration is always listed as a "contributing factor" or something like that.
But even assuming that their central contention is true—which it manifestly is not—the notion that Israel is responsible for it is ludicrous.
As @cogatonline stated this morning:
"🔸️3 water lines FROM ISRAEL are active, supplying an average of 107 liters per person in northern Gaza, 34 liter per person in central Gaza, and 20 liters per person in southern Gaza. According to international standards, conflict zones require 15 liters of water per person daily. The amount of water supplied exceeds that.
🔸️Israel facilitated hundreds of water infrastructure repairs, both in northern and southern Gaza. Israel also fixed water lines leading to Gaza on the Israeli side that were damaged by Hamas. Some of these repairs were done under fire.
🔸️Israel facilitated the repair of the 'Kela' electricity line (also damaged by Hamas on October 7th), so the desalination plant in Khan Yunis can work at full capacity.
🔸️We coordinated the refueling of water pumping facilities on a continued basis.
🔸️Water also enters Israel on humanitarian aid trucks."
See below for many examples where Human Rights Watch admits that their central argument cannot be verified. 🧵
"They had seen"
"Impossible to capture the full number of people who have died"
Breaking: The IDF targeted a Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense command center used for terrorism. Among those killed was Ahmed al-Louh, an Al Jazeera "cameraman" who was also a platoon commander in Islamic Jihad.
As always, the IDF's claims are complemented by open-source info🧵
First of all, Alouh writes on his Facebook that he studied at the London School of Economics, which, if true, is just.... wow 🤷♂️
On Facebook, Alouh likes to engage in good old-fashioned journalism, which, in this case, means fawning over terrorists.
Although the sicko who shot these kids explicitly stated it was an act of revenge for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, not a single major outlet reported this critical detail. See for yourselves 🧵
He was an awful person. For starters, he believed that "most Jews are evil."
He became slightly more diplomatic in his later years, opting instead to focus his ire just on Israelis and Zionists.
Here, for example, he's saying that random Israeli civilians eating dinner in Tel Aviv are legitimate military targets because they used to serve in the IDF.
Earlier this year, Amnesty glorified Walid Daqqa, a convicted PFLP terrorist whose cell he led abducted, tortured, and murdered IDF soldier Moshe Tamam.
Last year, Amnesty similarly came to the defense of Islamic Jihad terrorist Khader Adnan, most famous for advocating for suicide bombings.