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Aug 21 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Meet the Palestinian hostages kidnapped by Israel. 🧵
On June 27, '23, Israeli forces abducted the journalist Mohammed Muna, 41, from his home in Nablus for the 7th time. He worked at "Hawa Nablus" radio & w/Quds Press. On Dec. 27, his detention was extended by another 6 months. His whereabouts are unknown. france24.com/en/middle-east…Image
On April 7, '24, Israeli forces kidnapped the women’s rights activist Layan Nasir, 24, from her home at 4am. She graduated Birzeit University & worked in a women’s development NGO before her abduction. Her detention was recently renewed for 4 more months. indcatholicnews.com/news/50309Image
In Aug. '23, Israeli forces abducted the healthy Farouq Issa Al-Khatib for 4 months. He was beaten badly by his Israeli captors & denied medical care. Doctors declared him terminal before his release. He was killed on May 19th, '24.
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On 1 March '24, Israeli forces abducted the researcher & activist Omar al-Khatib, a research partner at The Institute of Development Studies, affiliated w/ the University of Sussex in Brighton. In June 2024, his sentence was extended for 4 months.
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On August 12, 2024, Israeli forces abducted journalist & activist Ayman Gharib. His alleged crime was “incitement on social media” but his posts document Israeli military & settler violence. I guess he’s inciting people to reject Israeli apartheid?
On 26 Dec. 2023, Israeli forces abducted the politician & scholar Khalida Jarrar, 61. They just renewed her "administrative detention" again. She is currently being held in solitary confinement. She has been held in prison w/out charge on & off for years. middleeastmonitor.com/20240821-israe…Image
These are 6 out of ~3,615 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons & dungeons, known as "administrative detainees." They have not committed a crime, they are not told why they are abducted & their imprisonment is renewable forever. They are hostages & should be called hostages.
Israel doesn't care if they are Muslim or Christian, young or old, men or women, whether they protest w/a camera, voice or pen. Palestinians who non-violently resist occupation, apartheid & genocide face abduction, indefinite imprisonment, torture & possibly death.
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Aug 22
Meet the Palestinian hostages kidnapped by Israel (part 2 out of 602) 🧵
In March '24, Israeli forces kidnapped Al-Araby journalist Muhammad Arab. In prison, he was blindfolded 24/7 & hands tied 24/7, forced to sleep hunched over w/no bedding. He became "nearly unrecognizable." His detention has been extended indefinitely. 972mag.com/sde-teiman-pri…
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In Aug '24, Israeli forces kidnapped Birzeit student Dania Hanatsheh again after she was released in the Nov 2023 prisoner swap. In this clip, she tells the story of Iman, a Palestinian hostage who was abducted & forced to abandon her infant child in Gaza.
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Aug 17
15 Israeli (former) leaders call it Apartheid. A 🧵
For decades, Israeli political & military leaders have wondered, will Israel become an apartheid state? Then, once their tenure in office ends, and their title is former something, they find the courage to say, alas, Israel has become an apartheid state!
In 1967, the former PM David Ben-Gurion said shortly after the conquest of Gaza & the West Bank that Israel “better rid itself of the territories and their Arab population as soon as possible…if it did not Israel would soon become an apartheid state.” theintercept.com/2017/03/22/top…
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Jul 31
A brief history of ceasefire talks between Hamas & Israel. A 🧵
On 19 June 2008, Israel & Hamas agreed to a truce:

Hamas & other militant groups agreed to stop firing rockets at Israel if Israel agreed to halt air strikes & other attacks & ease its blockade of Gaza. theguardian.com/world/2008/jun…
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From 19 June 2008 until 4 Nov. 2008, Hamas fired 0 rockets & 0 mortar shells at Israel & restrained other Palestinian groups, according to Israeli spokesman Mark Regev (on 9 Jan 2009). Still, Israel did NOT ease the blockade.
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Jul 27
Israel doesn't have a constitution. Instead it has 14 basic laws whose purpose is to establish "the values of the State of Israel as a Jewish & democratic state.”

So Israel's purpose is to be both Jewish & democratic. But what if the majority becomes non-Jewish? A very short 🧵
This fear drives public opinion in Israel. To cite just one example, according to the 2010 Israel Democracy Institute (@IDIisrael) poll, 53% of Israeli Jews believed the state should be entitled to encourage Palestinians Arabs to emigrate from Israel adalah.org/uploads/oldfil…
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The fear is especially heightened in Jerusalem, for how could the "Jewish & democratic state" have a non-Jewish (i.e. Palestinian) majority in the capital?

The result? 360,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites whose lives are constantly torn apart: palestine.beehiiv.com/p/8-tiers-isra…
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Jul 23
Today, Hamas & Fatah agreed to form an "interim national reconciliation government" aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel ends its war on Gaza. How will the US & Israel respond?

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On 19 Mar. 2005, 13 Palestinian groups (Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PFLP, DFLP) signed the Cairo Declaration, affirming the status of the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. It was a step towards a peaceful resolution. haaretz.com/2005-03-18/ty-…
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In response, on April 27, 2005, the US State Department published a list of "terrorist" organizations, re-affirming Hamas was a "terrorist" organization. The US could have welcomed this step towards a negotiated settlement. Instead the US rejected it. 2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/4…
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Jul 19
The 8 Tiers of Israeli Apartheid, A 🧵
Tier 1: Jewish citizens of Israel (7.2 million people) Image
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