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
1. Notice how genocide-deniers/ Zionist propagandists are simply rehashing same claims we've heard since Jan. 2024, as if nothing has happened since then?
2. See, e.g., how Stephens dismisses genocidal statements as simply "furious comments in the wake of Oct. 7 atrocities" when we have over 650 days of statements of intent. See South Africa, 227 p. dossier,
3. Quoting actual statements by Israeli leaders will be embarrassing to the denial narrative: e.g. "Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza" (Israel Katz, Apr. 2025); "total annihilation" + "Gaza will be entirely destroyed" (Smotrich, Apr./May 2025).
One way to support @FranceskAlbs is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list:
1) Sep. 2022: "The violations described in this report expose the nature of Israeli occupation: an intentionally acquisitive, segregationist & repressive regime designed to prevent the realization of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination" ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
2) June 2023: "Through an array of physical, bureaucratic and digital mechanisms, the Israeli regime has turned the occupied territory into a panopticon, where Palestinians are constantly surveilled and disciplined" ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
"Testimonies collected over the past year from released detainees and those still in custody paint a broader and horrifying picture of systematic abuse and torture against detainees from Gaza." @pchrgaza /1
In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOi
Olmert: "What is happening in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks has nothing to do with a legitimate war goal. Our fighters are being sent by the state leadership — and the army leadership that obeys it... in an illegitimate military campaign."
Olmert: Israel has adopted a deliberate policy of starvation archive.ph/3vvOi