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Naks Bilal
@NaksBilal
Researcher: Law (IHL, ICL, IHRL), Mid East; Palestine, Saudi | Postgrad @CityLawSchool
Jan 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Al-Jazeera just released a new doc called What is Hidden is Greater w/ never before seen footage. Two bits in particular are striking.

1. Sinwar had been in the field fighting against Israel throughout, hiding in plain sight — he’s even seen at one point staring at an IDF tank. 2. Footage of Mohammed Deif planning October 7th.

That his face is hidden suggests that he is still alive.
Dec 9, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hamas’ first statement on Syria after the fall of Assad:

“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas congratulates the brotherly Syrian people on their success in achieving their aspirations for freedom and justice.”

1/ Image “We call on all components of the Syrian people to unite their ranks, have more national cohesion, and rise above the pains of the past.

We, in the Hamas movement and our Palestinian people, stand firmly with the great Syrian people - ”

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Nov 21, 2024 • 29 tweets • 8 min read
A thread of states that have said they will honour and/or welcome the ICC warrants issued for Israeli officials Netanyahu and Gallant.

This highlights Israel’s growing isolation as they won’t be able to enter these countries on pain of arrest.

Netherlands 🇳🇱

🧵 France 🇫🇷
Nov 14, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Israeli supporters in tonight’s game between France and Israel at Stade de France beat up a French man.

Dozens of masked fans wearing Israeli flags can be seen laying into him, while the crowd boos. A lynching. A closer view of what is a very brutal scene.

Possibly individuals aligned with the far-right Zionist organisation, Betar, who had earlier posted a menacing image of masked man with sticks in Paris in a now-deleted post.

Oct 29, 2024 • 39 tweets • 9 min read
Thread of states around the world condemning Israel for its UNRWA legislation.

NOTE: The legislation violates the UN Charter, and also stands in opposition to the provisional measures indicated by the ICJ in the genocide case initiated by South Africa.

🧵

Ireland 🇮🇪 Belgium 🇧🇪

Deputy PM additionally calls for arms embargo.
Oct 19, 2024 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
This specific section of Gaza is being squeezed dead.

North Gaza Governorate; Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Jabalia.

No aid has entered since 1st Oct.

Quadcopters are murdering crowds of Palestinians, fighter jets razing blocks and dropping barrel bombs.

A complete death zone. Image Jabalia:

Israeli air force targeted a horse cart carrying Palestinians, killing five, brutally beheading the horse.
Oct 19, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Absolutely astonishing.

American intelligence documents have been leaked on a Telegram account linked to Iran about Israel’s preparations for its attack on Iran.

The U.S.’ MoD and DNI did not deny the authenticity of the documents.

news.walla.co.il/item/3698781#g… A senior Israeli official [likely Gallant, Bar or Barnea] said that the security establishment is aware of the leak and takes it very seriously.

The Telegram channel said it had received the docs from a source *in* the American intelligence community.
Oct 17, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sequence of events details leading to Sinwar’s death🧵

• Yesterday at 10:00am an IDF soldier from Battalion 450 recognised a suspicious figure in the building and fired on him.

• At 15:00pm IDF soldiers recognised from a UAV three figures coming out moving house to house.

1/ • An appreciation is made that the 3 are militants.

• 2 of the militants were covered with blankets; likely not Sinwar, [now assumed] they were going ahead to cover the area for him as they moved.

• The IDF soldiers then opened fire on the militants

2/
Oct 6, 2024 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
The IDF is today enacting its plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza of Palestinians in order to implement a siege.

This morning the IDF’s Arabic spokesman issued a new evacuation (forced displacement) order, calling on northern Gazans to relocate south via two routes.

1/
 🧵 Image For 3 weeks+ it has been rumoured in Israeli press Netanyahu had been weighing up a plan to lay siege on northern Gaza.

‘The Generals Plan’, presented by Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland (ret.), would see evacs for a week in N.Gaza, then see the area become a kill zone w/ no supplies.

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May 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Israel just bombed a tent encampment, causing a fire where displaced Palestinians are housed, west of Rafah.

A massacre of untold proportions; between 35-40 Palestinians reported killed by the strike nearby an UNRWA centre - burnt bodies of men, women, children everywhere.

1/ Israel’s claim of there being safe zones either in Rafah or its environs is severely undermined again.

These scenes are some of the most gruesome yet — a lethal, deadly violation of the ICJ’s order.
Apr 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The corpse of a Palestinian unearthed from the mass grave in Nasser Hospital’s courtyard bound w/ a zip-tie.

While it’s true Palestinians dug graves in the courtyard in Jan/Feb, the IDF certainly dug up the graves in Feb.

Islamic burial requires removal of such a zip-tie.
🧵
1/ Image Again, as reported here by @wizardbisan, a body recovered from the mass grave was wrapped in bandages.

Islamic burial rights would require the bandages to be removed.

Another instance suggestive of IDF burying (hiding?) bodies, on controlling/raiding Nasser after 15th Feb.

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Apr 19, 2024 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
A thread of global reactions of disappointment at America’s failure to accept Palestine’s application into the UN - the only Security Council member to vote no.

🧵

Ireland 🇮🇪 Kuwait 🇰🇼
Apr 6, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There’s a much longer exposition to make about the words uttered by @BarakRavid here, but just understand this:

What Barak describes - command orders to shoot every man of fighting age - are effectively the command orders that formed the Srebrenica Genocide in Bosnia.

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Image The IDF now claims to have killed 13,000 ‘terrorists’. Gaza’s health ministry reports today (6/4/2023) that 11,000+ men have been killed.

“Shoot every man of fighting age”, and some more it seems; there are no men for the IDF in Gaza - only targets.

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Mar 18, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Israel claims to have killed Faiq Al-Mabhouh, Director of the Central Operational Authority for Gaza’s Interior Ministry during the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital.

Has been said to no end, but being employed by Hamas still renders a person a civilian, as Hamas governs Gaza.

🧵

1/ Image Al-Mabhouh held the rank of Brigadier-General, overseeing the police for Gaza, coordinating aid and directing protection for Gazans during aid deliveries (following Flour Massacres).

Israel’s continued targeting of police officers seeks to create a security vacuum, however.

2/ Image
Feb 7, 2024 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
Hamas has released in full its response to the Paris Framework Agreement drafted by Qatar et al for a ceasefire.

They likely done so to circumvent the ensuing misinformation that will circulate in the media, as Israel is likely to reject it, and to generate public convo.

🧵 The Response outlines a roadmap to a full ceasefire that would take place over 135 days in three phases, each stage lasting 45 days.

The text of the document is copied verbatim below.

The guarantors of the Agreement are:
- Egypt
- Qatar
- Turkey
- Russia
- The United Nations
Feb 4, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
This is the Telegram channel the IDF had been using for the psyop. Had been monitoring it throughout until it stopped posted in December, shortly after it had first been exposed (and yes, the channel is referenced by South Africa in its ICJ submission).

🧵: Some of the content
Image Video the IDF soldiers who desecrated a mosque in Jenin, while singing Hanukkah songs over the mosque speakers.

The IDF went on to suspend several of the perpetrators, but shared the content on their psyop channel anyway. Image
Jan 30, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
30 bodies, handcuffed with ties behind their backs in zip-up body bags, were found inside Khalifa bin Zayed School in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli occupation forces withdrew from it.

All executed.

They were discovered under a mound of rubble. Chilling. Image
Image
Jan 30, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Israel’s Duvdevan Unit led an assault on Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin today, killing three Palestinians.

Israeli commentators have defended the action saying they belonged to militant groups.

This doesn’t preclude Israel committing a list of war crimes from start to end.

🧵

1/ First, housekeeping:

IDF/Shin Bet say these Palestinians were planning an attack.

Validating the claim is near impossible, especially given credibility of both IDF and Shin Bet.

In any event, all three enjoyed protected person civilian status at the time of their killing.

2/ Image
Jan 26, 2024 • 32 tweets • 11 min read
A thread of global reactions to ICJ provisional measures ruling in South Africa v Israel as they come.

🧵

First the EU🇪🇺: “Orders of the International Court of Justice are binding on the Parties. The European Union expects their full, immediate and effective implementation.” Image Turkey’s 🇹🇷 Erdogan welcomes the decision to issue provisional measures.
Jan 23, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
21 IDF soldiers were killed after houses they lined w/ mines collapsed following fire from Hamas.

Why were they lining houses with mines?

I’ve seen analysts speak of discipline and clearing mistakes today, but the IDF committing a war crime is the more pressing issue.

🧵

1/ The IDF says the buildings were to be destroyed for creating a buffer zone so residents of Kibbutz Kissufim could return.

Ten residential houses in Maghazi area were reportedly marked for destruction.

The law on this is quite clear and unambiguous.

2/ Image
Jan 21, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The IDF said they’ve killed 9,000 Hamas fighters.

U.S. intelligence estimates the IDF have killed between 20%/30% of Hamas fighters (25,000 lower end/30,000 upper end) = anywhere between 5,000 and 9,000 Hamas fighters killed.

WSJ says this falls short of Israel’s goals.

🧵

1/ EuroMed, who works with a team of independent monitors and recorders on the ground, places non-civilian (i.e. fighter) deaths, as of 19th January, at just over 2,600, which is some degree lower than the US estimate, but still within a lower range than that of the IDF.

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