It was clear from the start and all the way: a reminder of some Israel statements of intent 🧵
1. "Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything." Yoav Gallant, 10 October 2023.
2. "we will not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medicines from our territory to the Gaza Strip." PM Netanyahu, 18 October 2023 gov.il/en/pages/pm-ne…
3. "We shall pulverize every accursed plot of land from which it came, we shall destroy it and the memory of it." Brigadier General David Bar Kalifa, 29 October 2023.
4. Commanders and soldiers, November and December 2023: fallow land, scorched earth, no uninvolved civilians, wipe off the seed of amalek.
5. "There are no half measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. 'You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven' – there's no place under heaven." Bezalel Smotrich, 29 April 2024.
6. "Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population." Israel Katz, April 2025
7. "Gaza will be entirely destroyed... We are conquering, cleansing, and remaining in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed." Smotrich, May 2025.
8. Israel Katz 7 July 2025
9. How is it going:
"With this latest order, the area under displacement orders or within militarized zones has risen to 87.8%, leaving 2.1 million civilians squeezed into a fragmented 12% of Strip, where essential services have collapsed" @ochaopt ochaopt.org/content/gaza-o…
10. "The new order cuts through Deir al Balah all the way to the Med. Sea, further splintering the Strip. It will limit the ability of the UN & our partners to move safely and effectively within Gaza, choking humanitarian access when it is needed most."
#GenocideinGaza Day 655
For more extensive details on Israel's genocidal intent see South Africa's 227-page submission to the UNSC in Feb 2025
Israeli universities seem surprised by the increasing global boycott of Israeli academia. Here is a brief list that shows how embedded Israeli academia in the military industrial complex: 🧵 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
1. "Given the developments during the reporting period, the Special Committee is ever more convinced that the world is witnessing genocide in Gaza" ohchr.org/en/documents/t…
2. "Committee is shocked by the extent of land confiscation, targeting of communities, separation of families, demolitions, forced evictions, killings, physical abuse and other tactics employed... to push Palestinian communities from their lands and homes" in the West Bank
3. "Special Committee has received disturbing briefings on the systematic and widespread perpetration of sexual and gender-based violence, torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment inflicted on Palestinian detainees by Israeli military and security forces"
1. The Trump - Netanyahu plan should be opposed and rejected. It offers the Palestinians a choice between colonial apartheid and occupation, at best, and gives a cover for the continuation of the genocide, at worst. 1/24 🧵
2. This is a unilateral, one-sided plan, that is delivered as an ultimatum. Therefore it would effectively justify the continuation and completion of the genocide. Either because Hamas will be cornered to reject it or because Israel will violate it.
3. Israel has a track record of violating agreements (no withdrawal from Lebanon after Nov 2024 agreement; violating cease fire agreement in March 2025; no lifting of blockade despite release of a hostage in May 2025).
UN Commission of Inquiry concludes on reasonable grounds that Israel have committed and is continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
The report released today adds to the growing consensus that Israel has been committing genocide since October 2023 ohchr.org/sites/default/…
The Commission recommends that all Member States: Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
1. The most annoying thing about the Ezra Klein interview with Philippe Sands is his use of Lemkin to maintain that 7 October was a genocide. It is had to reconcile this with Lemkin's actual book. A brief 🧵
2. The glaring omission from this statement by Sands are the words "occupation" and "coordinated plan"; and thus the recognition of the gross power asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians. To begin with, here is Lemkin's definition:
3. Lemkin continues: genocide has 2 phases...
(Who has confiscated the lands and displaced the residents? Who has de-nationalised? Who has imposed their national pattern? who is the occupier?)
1. When journalists say 'Israel says' they are not actually quoting what Israeli leaders say repeatedly, rather they are simply repeating talking points that conceal what Israel actually says and does. Examples since March 2025🧵
2. Talking point: "This will all end if Hamas releases the hostages."
Netanyahu, March 2025: "voluntary migration. This is the plan. We are not hiding it." gov.il/en/pages/pm-ne…
3. Talking point: "Israel did not say that it is using starvation as a method of warfare."
a) Israel, 2 March 2025: "PM Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, the entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted." gov.il/en/pages/spoke…