🧵 A new Euro-Med Monitor investigation, conducted over several months, uncovers horrifying details of a massacre committed by the Israeli army in #Gaza City in November 2023. The attack targeted an entire residential block, killing around 70 people, and was followed by strikes on residents attempting to bury the victims.
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🧵The Israeli army’s extrajudicial killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, who posed no threat, is part of a continuing pattern of deliberate extrajudicial killings across the occupied Palestinian territory ⤵️
Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank over the past 2 years through extrajudicial killings carried out after the victims were captured or detained. Data from Gaza indicate that ~ 9% of all victims during the genocide were killed in the same manner
On 27 November, an Israeli special forces unit unlawfully raided a house in Jabal Abu Dhahir, Jenin and assaulted a man. During the raid, two men emerged to surrender, unarmed and with their hands raised. Soldiers forced them back inside and shot them at point-blank range
🧵The Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees and prisoners constitutes a dangerous escalation that further entrenches Israel’s apartheid system⤵️
The Knesset’s National Security Committee approved the bill on 3 November ahead of the first reading on 10 November. It now proceeds to second and third readings before becoming law. The bill was introduced by the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, led by Itamar Ben Gvir
The bill stipulates that “any person who intentionally or recklessly causes the death of an Israeli citizen or a person residing in Israel, when motivated by racism, hatred, or intent to harm Israel or the Israeli people, shall be subject to the death penalty.”
🧵In an Israeli cabinet discussion on enforcing the “Yellow Line” in #Gaza, senior officials debated whether to shoot a child or a donkey first.
The rhetoric, though appalling, reflects a broader pattern in Israeli official language that dehumanises Palestinians, fuels violence, and gives the Israeli military a green light to kill, a reality seen in the deaths of around 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza, over 90% of them civilians.
🧵The Israeli army’s escalation in targeting displaced people in Al-Mawasi, southwest of the #Gaza Strip, is turning the Israeli-claimed “humanitarian zone” into a death trap
The Israeli army is targeting the tents with sniper fire, random shooting from drones and nearby military vehicles, as well as airstrikes and artillery shelling, while at the same time claiming the area is a humanitarian zone and ordering over one million residents of Gaza City to evacuate there
Euro-Med Monitor’s field team has documented repeated attacks on displacement tents in the area in recent days, killing several civilians, injuring many others, and destroying their tents along with the few personal belongings they still had
🧵At every dawn in #Gaza City, families wake to deafening, earth-shaking blasts, relentless explosions unlike any weapon heard before. Israel’s army is using explosive-laden robots, a new weapon designed to wipe out entire neighbourhoods in an instant
🧵The Israeli army’s killing of five Palestinian farmers while working on their land in Khan Younis, southern #Gaza, reflects a recurring pattern and an ongoing systematic policy aimed at destroying any attempt to secure the minimum food supply through local production
The five victims, all from the same family, were identified as: Suleiman and Mohammed Jamal Darwish al-Astal, Mousa Abdullah al-Astal, Mahmoud Naif Mustafa al-Astal, and Mohammed Marwan Ahmad al-Astal
Israel’s escalating attacks on food sources in Gaza come just as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declared famine in Gaza Governorate for the first time ever