Author; Board member @HonestReporting; wrote @NGOmonitor rebuttals debunking HRW & Amnesty "apartheid" reports; articles in Tablet, Fathom Journal etc.
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First, notion that Gaza is occupied is baseless and relies on fabricated int'l law applied to Israel alone. But for this discussion let's assume Gaza is in fact occupied. With this in hand people next look to an Int'l Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion from 2004. 2/
Dramatic video of cruise missile hidden inside civilian home with wall that can be removed for launching. The size & location of the missile is shocking – but won’t sway the Israel haters. 2/
1. Tunnels represents Hamas’ core human shield doctrine, with a dense 1.4km of tunnels for every square km of Gaza. Many 1000s of shafts are found inside civilian buildings, mosques, schools, etc. @nytimes did a major exposé of Hamas' tunnel network.
@Doron_Kadosh reports on the massive booby trap threat which just killed 4 soldiers. Groups of 30-40 buildings in Rafah were rigged in advance, with cameras and remote activation. 96,500 rigged sites in all of Gaza, 14,000 in Rafah along. Staggering. 2/
Debate guest @spencerguard asks Roth question see below. Simply put: how is it possible to claim Israel is enacting a siege and strategy to deliberately starve Gazans when 29,000 trucks have entered Gaza? (it's 49,000 today). Roth does not have a credible answer, so he lies. 2/
John Spencer @SpencerGuard is the leading expert on urban warfare, at West Point the top US military academy. Spencer has written extensively how Israel’s actions to limit civilian harm are unprecedented. Like the others, he is simply pro-truth. 2/
See below from 1988 charter. In 2017 Hamas issued “A Document of General Principles & Policies” that sanitizes Jews as “Zionists” but notably and critically, the original 1988 charter was never revoked – it still stands and killing Jews has not been repudiated! 2/
Fake NGOs @hrw @amnesty, armchair military experts and many in media do not know upfront what IDF intended to hit and expected civilian harm so they cannot assess distinction and proportionality. Here is rule per Geneva Article 51. There is no statistical measurement of this. 2/
Topic of article is Palestinians at DNC but it's real purpose is to bash Israel. Coates claims “intention” of Gaza war is “erasing 2% of entire population of Gaza” never mind Hamas, human shields, 50% killed are combatants. His evidence for intention is a totally fake quote. 2/ 
HRW claims IDF attack was “indiscriminate” meaning port was not used for any military purpose & disproportionate. How does HRW know port was not used for military purposes? UN staff & Yemenis said so. That’s literally the only evidence HRW can muster! 2/
Hamas leader Sinwar stated Palestinian deaths were part of his strategy against Israel, merely “necessary sacrifices” – meaning he “inflicted on the group conditions” intended for Palestinians to die in a war Hamas started. This intent is reported in @WSJ and not disputed. 2/
The primary reason for the IDF misidentification error was the unexpected presence of armed persons, one of whom fired his weapon into the air on the trailer of the WCK truck, which was deemed “consistent with Hamas hijacking the aid convoy.” 2/
CNN starts out slowly: Hamas has rebuilt some fighting capabilities. Fine. Article even admits Hamas is now a “guerilla force.” But authors then speculate, cite other experts who push line that “victory” over Hamas is not in sight, then it becomes “power of Hamas is growing”! 2/
Tunnel with weapons found underneath bed in children’s room in Rafah’s Shaboura neighborhood. July 2024. 2/
No one disputes Point 1. Point 2: some claim that ~10,000 Gaza fatalities are bodies in some room awaiting processing, simply "unidentified." False – the bodies are unknown and unlocated, deaths unverified. 2/
Article IV.28 plainly and simply states that “protected persons,” which refers to civilians and other classes of people entitled to protection, do not immunize areas from military operations. Human shields do not provide immunity. 2/
DoD War Manual is 1,254 pages and expands on Geneva. Section 5.6.8 makes clear that “communications objects, transportation objects” and “economic objects” that are “war supporting or war sustaining industries" are “military objectives.” Like a port used to unload weapons. 2/
Here is the data by age, consistent for each group. These figures are statistically impossible over 1000s of data points (especially if claiming “indiscriminate” attacks). The reality: Hamas uses large numbers of teen soldiers who are then legally targeted as combatants. 2/
Airwars used social media, Palestinian media & NGOs to document 3,000 deaths from 17 days in Oct 23 and match them to Hamas list of 7,000 deaths, a 43% confirm rate. Nice job. But Airwars has another agenda: to bestow credibility on all of Hamas’ 39,000 claimed fatalities. 2/
Hamas' Apr 30 list had 406 fatalities aged 19, male & female. 284 of prior 19 year olds or 70% became 18 in Jun 30 list. Sample of 5 shown above. This is critical as Hamas, then UN & media, count aged 18 as “children.” This is deliberate, intended to boost child fatalities. 2/
Clause 92 discusses the concept of a “physical presence” required for an occupation. ICJ asserts that Israel “may still bear obligations under the law of occupation” due to certain authority over Gaza – but not that Gaza is therefore “occupied.” 2/ 