The Commission of Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoners' Club released a statement of accounts from the commission's lawyer, Khaled Mahajna and journalists Muhammad Arab and Tareq Abed.
The following includes accounts of torture, abuse, and sexual violence. 🧵 The journalist Muhammad Arab, before being tranferred from Ofer prison to Sde Teiman camp, witnessed a sick Palestinian prisoner begging for treatment. Arab reports that the prisoner was denied treatment, and instead attacked and murdered by Israeli forces.

It's critical to remember that Zionism, as a form of settler-colonialism, is articulated in service of capitalism. As such, it models its tactics from other colonial powers, learns lessons & adapts. The US bombing of Bach Mai Hospital in 72 provided valuable lessons 🧵 Quickly, US legal advisors justified the bombing that killed hundreds. W Hays Park, who served in Vietnam and became a legal advisor and helped issue the 1986 airstrike on Libya, had this to say:

Settler-colonialism is premised on the erasure of the indigenous people. Israel is not an exception to the rule. There is not one metric that suggests that violence waged against Palestinians will subside. Home demolitions across ONLY the EJ & the WB continue to be alarming 🧵



YTD Summary:
- 210 Israeli military operations
- 595 structures destroyed
- 705 people displaced
-185 women displaced
- 333 children displaced

Daily averages:
- 1.1 military operations
- 3.7 people displaced
- 3.1 structures destroyed 2/

Liberal discourse, in service of the ruling class, deploys its many machinations to scribe the terms of the world around us but, most importantly, defines justice for the oppressed & besieged. In service of zionism, Yousef posits an ethic where the colonizers keep their spoils 🧵

https://twitter.com/jvplive/status/1810767839101604038

This colonial apologia advances settler-colonialism by arguing to the readers — mostly zionists in this case — that the Palestinian call for justice includes the settlers remaining in stolen lands & stolen homes. 2/

The destruction of Gaza is designed first to kill, then expel & finally segregate the general Palestinian population into small enclaves by selectively destroying critical life-giving infrastructure. Based on Unosat imagery on May 29, 65% of Gaza's roads are destroyed & damaged.



Here is a zoomed-in image of the Netzarim Corridor with accompanying images to show the destruction intended to bisect Gaza. This method of creating small, ethnic zones that are disconnected from each other is deployed across the West Bank as a means to create political divisions

A thread on just some of the documented cases of Israeli sexual assault against Palestinians in Gaza since Oct 7 🧵 15 November 2023: Patients, displaced persons, and health workers were detained, stripped naked, blindfolded by Israeli forces, abducted from a hospital and forcibly taken to another location.

Israel's attack on medical facilities & healthcare workers, while concentrated in Gaza, is a broader tactic put in service of Western imperialism to control the indigenous people past the boundaries of Palestine and in Lebanon & Syria. Imperialism, by definition, has no borders🧵 Here are a few key events over the last few weeks.

06.03.24: Israeli airstrikes hit the vicinity of a hospital, causing significant damage. Israeli forces also shelled a hospital, severely impacting its operations.

Zionism, is first & foremost, a capitalist project. This is a photo from the 1900s of farmers from Bethlehem preparing to go to the market. With the zionist take over of the Jordan Valley & the industrialization of produce, local farmers that once thrived, now struggle. 1/ When some of us do our shopping in the Old City of Bethlehem, the locals explain how hard it is to compete with the way Israel just “dumps” product into market, driving down their prices. 2/

🚨 Update on the Gaza Strip as of today (260) - Saturday, June 22, 2024:

🔴 (260) days since the war started.
🔴 (3,331) massacres committed by the Israeli army. 🔴 (47,551) martyrs and missing persons in Gaza.
🔴 (10,000) missing.
🔴 (37,551) martyrs who reached hospitals.

Right now millions are joining the fight against genocide through global encampments, sparking a commitment to Palestinian liberation Education is key to solidarity—defining terms matters. Here's why JVP's definition of antizionism problematic and what to do about it. A thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/jvplive/status/1783626501901971634

JVP defines anti-zionism as "a loose term referring to criticism of the current policies of the Israeli state". Even settler orgs like Regavim, El Ad & JStreet criticize Israeli policies. zionism, a settler-colonial project, can only be undone through decolonization.

Israeli forces withdrew from the Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis—the largest hospital in southern Gaza—leaving behind horrors for the civil defense crews and family to uncover.

190 martyrs have been recovered from the complex, but Palestinians expect to find hundreds more.🧵 The head of the Government Media Office in Gaza reported, "The occupation executed dozens of displaced, wounded, sick, and medical staff... In the Nasser Complex, we found corpses without heads and bodies without skin, and some of them had their organs stolen." 2/7

We are 6 months into a genocide and "Israeli allies" "anti-occupation activists" in Palestine have only offered self-centered parades that do not call to end genocide or colonization. They condemn resistance and call for peace while failing to even utter the word colonization. 🧵 These "allies" ask us to condemn Oct 7. They cry for peace but don't note that Palestinians haven't seen any image of "peace", or even "coexistence". Not over 6 months, as Palestinians have been slaughtered in a concentration camp built and maintained by Israeli hands—not ever.

According to an announcement from the Prisoners and Ex Prisoners Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, Israeli forces kidnapped 25 Palestinians from the West Bank yesterday and today, including ex-prisoners. About 7,530 people have been kidnapped since Oct 7. 🧵 This latest mass arrest campaign by Israeli forces focused on kidnapping Palestinians in the Ramallah area, though others were taken from Qalqiliya, Bethlehem, Hebron, Salfit, and Jerusalem governorates.

For the last 3 months, the largest and most well funded US-based NGOs have centered their campaigns around this failed lawsuit.
From afar, we noted that this was the most likely outcome. These organizations also knew. So why was it framed as a serious action and possible win? 🧵

https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1752868709058683054

This is what we talk about when we criticize symbolic victories (as opposed to material ones). For so long, imperial core-based NGOs have used these kinds of legal battles and legislative campaigns that do not have a real chance of succeeding. This is how they get their funding.

Something that the arrogance of colonizers prevents them from grasping is that the colonized do not “misunderstand” them. They do not fail to grasp their ideology and motivation.
Colonized people generally not only understand colonizers—we also understand how colonizers see us.🧵 This knowledge is essential for colonized people to survive and navigate the systems built to entrap, oppress and dispossess us. It means that colonized people, better than colonizers, can often even intuitively navigate colonial infrastructure.

The other day, speaking to someone in the mental health profession in Palestine, one of our members asked about whether there had been an increase of requested services, or an influx of patients, since Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza began October 7. 🧵 The mental health professional confirmed that there had been an influx of patients—of all kinds. Among them, a notable addition was the influx of child patients seeking mental health services.

Palestinian children in Gaza hold a press conference outside Al Shifa hospital, speaking English so the world cannot pretend not to understand them: “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace… we want to live as the other children live.” Imagine that these are YOUR children, displaced from your home that is now rubble, sheltering in a hospital under threat and having to plead in another language for people to care whether they live or die or drink water again. Then act accordingly.

If you have ever once thought of yourself as an ally to Palestinians, stop sharing Israeli state propaganda as Gazans are mass murdered by the very same state.

@PeterBeinart, you should be ashamed of yourself, as well as anyone who collaborates with you. Allies DON'T share state propaganda provoking genocide. They also don't compare the oppressed to savages as we are already being slaughtered en masse as a result of genocidal rhetoric and settler colonial policies that dehumanize us.

Today, on Shuhada street in colonized Hebron, Israeli settlers blasted music and celebrated Purim in the middle of a space from which Palestinians have been scrubbed. This road, once a hub of local commerce, has been closed to Palestinians for years. #DefundRacism This video shows the reality funded by Israeli state funds and US tax dollars and protected by Israeli military forces. Israeli settlers enjoy privileged status and looted resources while Indigenous Palestinians face resource shortages and no freedom of movement. #DefundRacism

Yesterday morning Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, using live fire to shoot 17 year old Nader Haithem Rayan in the head, chest and hand and kill him. Nine others were wounded in the gun fire. In Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem, Israeli forces shot Alaa Shaham in the head, killing him as well. Six other Palestinians were wounded in this case by the live fire. Shaham was only in his 20s.

TODAY: Israeli settlers shot live fire at Palestinians in Hebron, injuring 4 people—3 of which are children. Settlers are carrying out this violence in a highly militarized space. It is clear that this is going on with the consent—or tacit support—of the Israeli military. This attack comes only days after the commemoration of the 29 Palestinians murdered by an Israeli settler in 1994 during the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre—an act that led Israeli forces to impose further restrictions on Palestinians’ access to their own city. #DefundRacism