The October 7 atrocities as a trigger for genocide: an escalation rooted in decades of apartheid and occupation.

Read more in “Our Genocide” report, link in 🧵

Since October 7th, Israel has instated a systemic policy of abusing and torturing thousands of Palestinians in its custody.
>> In “Welcome to Hell”, B’Tselem’s new report issued today, dozens of testimonies reveal a reality of harsh, arbitrary daily violence, sexual assault, humiliation, starvation, inhumane hygiene conditions, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and more.
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No more excuses. The international community must force Israel to end the occupation.

Responding to the ICJ’s advisory opinion, B'Tselem says:
Over the past 57 years, Israel has demonstrated it has no intention of ending the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem... ...but the opposite, working to further entrench it and annex the territory (whether formally or in practice). Military occupation is one element of Israel’s apartheid regime.

The war must stop
The international community is clearly signaling to Israel that the war in Gaza has crossed every line. Following close upon the ICC prosecutor's request for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, the International Court of Justice is ordering Israel to immediately halt all military actions in the area of Rafah that will harm civilians.

*המלחמה חייבת להיפסק*
הקהילה הבינלאומית מסמנת לישראל בבירור שהמלחמה בעזה חצתה את כל הקווים האדומים. בסופו של שבוע שבו ביקש התובע בבית הדין הפלילי הבינלאומי להוציא צווי מעצר נגד בכירים ישראלים, בית הדין הבינלאומי לצדק מורה לישראל להפסיק באופן מיידי כל פעולות לחימה במרחב רפיח שיביאו לפגיעה באזרחים.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s request to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on suspicion of committing war crimes in Gaza signals Israel’s rapid decline into a moral abyss. The international community is signaling to Israel that it can no longer maintain its policy of violence, killing and destruction without accountability.

As described in B'Tselem's 2021 position paper, the Israeli apartheid regime implements policies to promote the principle of Jewish supremacy on both sides of the Green Line, in the occupied West Bank, and inside Israel's sovereign territory. Link & more video below. @rcuvnegev

https://twitter.com/OrenZiv_/status/1788097094072299730

Yesterday's demolition took part inside Israel proper. The 300 or so people who lost their homes are Israeli citizens.
These videos demonstrate the massive scale of policing employed by the Israeli authorities to perpetrate this demolition. @ntiyft

https://twitter.com/rcuvnegev/status/1788052505865171237

We recently completed and published the findings of several field investigations into incidents in which Palestinians were killed in Nov. 2023.
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https://twitter.com/btselem/status/1754525813628657947

Soldiers walked three detainees through the streets of al-Birah, and in clashes that developed killed a boy and a young man and injured two
btselem.org/firearms/20240…

"A shell fell on our building and forced us to leave: me, my husband and kids, my parents, my sisters Samar and Nada, and my brothers Shadi, Muhammad and Mahmoud with their families – 25 people altogether. > Eventually we headed south, until we reached the checkpoint the army set up in the Netzarim area. The soldiers ordered us to sit on the ground. I was told to take my clothes off, and I stayed in my underwear. >

1/5 The 2.2 million people of Gaza are going hungry. This is not a byproduct of war but a direct result of Israel’s declared policy, which denies them food. Gazans now depend entirely on supplies from outside, as they can no longer produce almost any food themselves. 2/5 Most cultivated fields have been destroyed, and accessing open areas during the war is dangerous in any case. Factories and warehouses have been bombed or shut down due to lack of supplies, fuel and electricity; stockpiles in private homes and stores have long since run out

Original security camera footage obtained by B'Tselem captures two short-range executions of Palestinians in al-Far'ah R.C. on 8 December 2023. At the end of a chase after a group of Palestinians, soldiers in a military jeep shoot Rami Jundob (25), that held what could be an explosive device. Jundob falls down, the jeep got closer, and a soldier fires another shot at him.

סרטון מקורי ממצלמות אבטחה שהגיע לבצלם מתעד שתי הוצאות להורג מטווח קרוב של פלסטינים במחנה הפליטים אל-פארעה בבקעת הירדן ב-8.12.23.
בתום מרדף אחרי קבוצת פלסטינים, חיילים יורים מרכב צבאי בראמי ג'ונדב, בן 25, שמחזיק במה שנראה כמו מטען. ג׳ונדב נופל, הרכב מתקרב אליו, וחייל יורה מתוכו עוד ירייה לעברו. ג'ונדב מרים את ידו, והחייל והנהג יורים בו מטווח קצר. לאחר מכן מצלם אחד מהחיילים היורים את ג'ונדב בטלפון שלו. ג'ונדב מת מפצעיו למחרת.

Together with other Israeli human rights and civil society organizations we sent yesterday a letter to @POTUS asking him to use his influence to change Israel's policy and prevent deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. In the letter (also printed as an advert in todays @nytimes) we wrote " You have the power to influence our government to change its policy and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, in accordance with Israel’s legal obligations and the needs of the population."

30 Human rights and civil society NGOs in Israel release statement urging the international community to act on unprecedented levels of state-backed settler violence in the West Bank > Today, 30 leading human rights and anti-occupation NGOs in Israel signed an open letter to the international community urging immediate action to protect West Bank Palestinians from settler violence and forcible transfer from their land >

Under cover of Gaza war, settlers working to fulfil state goal of Judaizing Area C

Since the war in Gaza began, violence against Palestinians has shot up in the West Bank. > In just ten days, soldiers and settlers have killed 62 Palestinians and injured dozens. Israel has put up roadblocks throughout the West Bank, closed off main roads to Palestinians and significantly restricted their movement. >

בחסות המלחמה בעזה, המתנחלים מגשימים את חזונה של המדינה לייהוד שטחי C

מאז החלה המלחמה ברצועת עזה עלתה רמת האלימות בגדה המערבית. בעשרה ימים בלבד נהרגו 62 פלסטינים בידי חיילים ומתנחלים ועשרות נפצעו. > נוסף על כך, ישראל הגבירה את מאמציה לגרש קהילות פלסטיניות ומשפחות מבודדות מבתיהן ומאדמותיהן. התנהלות זו של המדינה היא ניסיון ציני לנצל את המלחמה כדי להמשיך ולקדם את מטרותיה הפוליטיות בגדה ולהשתלט על עוד ועוד קרקעות פלסטיניות. >

One crime does not justify another. The attack against civilians in Gaza must end

Gaza has been under Israeli aerial bombardment for 12 days now, with hardly any breaks. So far, Israeli planes have dropped thousands of tons of explosives on Gaza’s residents. > This is not the first time Israel has bombed the Gaza Strip in this way. This illegal and immoral policy was employed in previous rounds of fighting, during which thousands were killed, including entire families, thousands more were injured and left homeless. >

تخطط إسرائيل لإدخال عشرات آلاف الجنود إلى قطاع غزة في أية لحظة. ليس معروفاً، حتى الآن، نطاق هذا الدخول لكنّ وزراء وضباطاً كباراً في الجيش يدعون، منذ أسبوع، للانتقام ويطلبون إلحاق ضرر واسع وغير معقول بمئات آلاف المواطنين. مُلزَمون بوقف هذا، الآن. > قبل أسبوع، نفذ مسلحو حماس أعمالاً مُرعبة في جنوب البلاد. أكثر من 1,300 قتيل، أكثر من 100 مخطوف، آلاف الجرحى وعشرات المفقودين. >

בכל רגע מתכננת ישראל להכניס לרצועת עזה עשרות אלפי חיילים. היקפה של כניסה כזו אינו ידוע עדיין אבל שרים וקצינים בכירים בצבא קוראים כבר שבוע לנקמה ומבקשים לגרום לפגיעה נרחבת ובלתי נתפסת במאות אלפי אזרחים. חייבים לעצור את זה עכשיו. > לפני שבוע ביצעו אנשי חמאס מעשי זוועה בדרום הארץ. למעלה מ-1,300 הרוגים, למעלה מ-100 חטופים, אלפי פצועים ועשרות נעדרים. זוועות חדשות על שהתרחש באותו היום מתגלות מדי יום; >

With @PHRIsrael:
A humanitarian disaster in Gaza must be averted
Ever since the horrifying war crimes perpetrated by Hamas on Saturday, Israel has been bombing Gaza relentlessly and indiscriminately. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 500 minors have been killed, as well as more than 276 women and dozens of families; more than 6,600 have been injured; entire neighborhoods wiped out, essential infrastructure has been destroyed.

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A joint statement by Israeli human rights and civil society organizations 👇 2/4