On the 400th day of Israel's Gaza genocide, Saturday Nov 9, the Government Media Office released a summary of some of the most relevant statistics from the Gaza Strip. 🧵
- 400 days of genocide.
- 3,798 massacres committed by Israel.
- 53,552 known martyrs and missing persons.
- 10,000 known missing individuals.
- 43,552 martyrs who reached hospitals (Ministry of Health).
- 17,385 known child martyrs. 1/15
- 209 known infant children born and martyred during the last 400 days.
- 825 known children under the age of one martyred.
- 1,367 Palestinian families completely wiped out by the genocide, removed from the civil registry.
- 38 known to be martyred due to famine. 2/15
- 1,054 known martyrs from medical teams.
- 85 known martyrs from the civil defense teams.
- 184 known martyred journalists.
- 7 mass graves established by Israeli forces inside hospitals.
- 520 martyrs retrieved from 7 mass graves inside hospitals. 3/15
- 102,765 wounded individuals who arrived to hospitals.
- 398 wounded journalists and media personnel.
- 202 shelters targeted by the Israeli forces.
- 35,055 children living without one or both parents. 4/15
- 3,500 children at risk of death due to malnutrition and food scarcity.
- 186 days of total closure of all Gaza Strip crossings.
- 12,000 wounded individuals in need of medical treatment abroad.
- 12,500 cancer patients at risk of death and in need of treatment. 5/15
- 3,000 patients with various diseases in need of treatment abroad.
- 1,737,524 people affected by infectious diseases due to displacement.
- 71,338 cases of hepatitis infection due to displacement.
- 60,000 pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare. 6/15
- 350,000 chronic disease patients at risk due to Israel’s prevention of medication entry.
- 5,300 known detainees from the Gaza Strip.
- 310 abductions of medical staff, 3 of whom were assassinated.
- 38 journalist detainees whose names have been confirmed. 7/15
- 2 million forcibly displaced persons across the Gaza Strip.
- 100,000 tents damaged and rendered unsuitable for displaced persons.
- 206 government facilities destroyed by occupation forces.
- 129 schools and universities completely destroyed. 8/15
- 344 schools and universities partially destroyed by Israeli forces.
- 12,700 known students killed by occupation forces.
- 785,000 students deprived of education by Israel.
- 750 known teachers and education staff killed by occupation forces during the war. 9/15
- 138 known scholars, academics, university professors, and researchers executed by Israeli forces.
- 815 mosques completely destroyed by Israeli forces.
- 151 mosques severely damaged.
- 3 churches destroyed by Israeli forces. 10/15
- 19 cemeteries completely or partially destroyed by occupation forces out of 60 cemeteries.
- 2,300 bodies known to be stolen by occupation forces from various cemeteries. 11/15
- 159,000 housing units completely destroyed.
- 83,000 housing units rendered uninhabitable.
- 193,000 housing units partially destroyed.
- 86,400 tons of explosives dropped by occupation forces on the Gaza Strip. 12/15
- 34 hospitals rendered out of service.
- 80 health centers rendered out of service.
- 162 healthcare facilities targeted by Israeli forces.
- 134 ambulances targeted by Israeli forces.
- 206 archaeological & heritage sites destroyed by Israeli forces. 13/15
- 3,130 kilometers of electrical networks destroyed by occupation forces.
- 125 ground-level power transformers destroyed.
- 330,000 linear meters of water networks destroyed. 14/15
- 655,000 linear meters of sewage networks destroyed by occupation forces.
- 2,835,000 linear meters of roads and streets destroyed by occupation forces. 15/15
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Yesterday, I sat on a bench in W. Jerusalem, looked up, and realized the "shade" tree was an olive tree. The contrast between Israeli (left) and Palestinian (right) olive trees highlights the differing relationships settlers and native Palestinians have with the land 🧵
Olive tree pruning is a fundamental practice for maintaining the health and productivity of these trees. For centuries, Palestinians have pruned olive trees to enhance yield, ensure longevity, and foster a deep connection to the land that sustains them. 2/
However, in the context of settler colonialism, this practice assumes new layers of significance. Because the settler economy is centered in the metropole, rather than on the land, Israelis prune olive trees with different intentions 3/
The man opening the trunk of the car is connected to the hilltop settlement meters away and directed the arrest of the family from beginning to the end. The zionist left will frame this as “the cops working with the settlers”, which intentionally obfuscates the situation. 🧵
This analysis creates a false dichotomy that there are "Israelis" and there are "settlers," when in reality, Israelis in general are settlers. Police officers are settlers not just as a matter of class identity—they function to animate the system of settler-colonialism.
When the zionist left frames "Israelis" and "settlers" as being distinct, they do this to create a paradigm in which "Israelis are good" and "settlers are bad". This, of course, is designed to perpetuate the myth of an enlightened zionist left and a redeemable Israel.
The "equal rights for all" is the NGO version of "All lives matter."
Within the context of settler-colonialism, the rights of the settler, by design, can only be realized at the expense of the indigenous population.
Statements of this form today advance colonial thought.
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This critical piece highlights how French colonizers used the "equal rights" framework in an attempt to secure voting rights for the settler community to maintain the colonization of the Kanak people. 2/
Zionist apologia follows this same logic, inciting bigotry against Palestinians and allies when they say completely normal things like settlers should not, in fact, have "rights" over Palestinian land, resources, and social economy. 3/
Between Oct 7 and Sept 6, Israel and Hezbollah, as well as other anti-colonial resistance groups in Lebanon, have exchanged 9,613 attacks. Israel has accounted for 82% — or 7,845 of attacks. This isn't a strategy; it's indiscriminate violence serving colonialism.
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Today alone, Israel killed at least 34 Palestinians in attacks on Gaza, including 13 in airstrikes on two homes in Rafah. In Lebanon, 12 people were killed & 66 wounded in an attack on Beirut.
The 7,845 attacks Israel has carried out represent just a small portion of colonial violence: It doesn't take into account the data from the bombings across Gaza, the raids across Jerusalem and the West Bank, or violence against Palestinian communities of 48' /3
Israel's greatest asset is its ability to enact meaningless, wonton violence and scorched Earth policies.
Palestinian allies can't simply bomb Tel Aviv or Jerusalem w/o the risk of killing Palestinians: Their resistance demands a level of precision not required by Israel. 1/
When people talk about the asymmetrical nature of violence, it isn't because of technological advantages and imperial backing. It's just that zionism, as a mechanism of imperialism, doesn't have moral restrictions. Its only boundaries are those set by capitalist interests. 2/
100 years of zionist colonialism has demonstrated they are willing to poison water wells of villages, bomb entire buildings, slaughter livestock, burn acres of trees — imprison & kill their own soldiers. What moral code has zionism ever adhered to? 3/
Indulge us this thread, which responds to a quite a simple lie of a post. Let's peel back some of the layers of deception underlying these claims. A few of them might be less obvious than you think. 🧵
Shurat HaDin (SHD) is one of these Israeli lawfare groups, registered as a charity in Occupied Palestine, which works to support zionist settlement and publish (bad) propaganda in order to undermine Palestinians' claims to our homeland, and to justice. This claim is no different.
Shurat HaDin says "Zero Jews live in Ramallah", in Jenin, in Nablus, and in Gaza. The implication of this is not only that they "don't live there", but that they "don't live there" because they are not allowed to live there.
On the other hand "2 million Arabs" live in "Israel".