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Feb 4 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, suggested that her contract was not renewed by UN chief Antonio Guterres due to her declining to label Israel's military offensive in Gaza against Hamas as genocide haaretz.com/world-news/202…
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Last November, an editorial in The Wall Street Journal claimed that Nderitu's removal was part of an "unofficial UN campaign against the Jewish state," describing her "refusal to endorse a lie for political gain" as a "profile in courage" haaretz.com/world-news/202…
Jan 29 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Dyab Abou Jahjah, head of the Hind Rajab Foundation, which has filed complaints against Israeli soldiers in courts around the world, submitted in Brussels a formal criminal complaint on behalf of the organization against Israel's Diaspora minister haaretz.com/world-news/eur…
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The complaint says the minister, Amichai Chikli, threatened Abou Jahjah "with death or at least with the intentional infliction of blows and injuries resulting in mutilation" when he wrote, during an exchange of messages on X, "Watch your pager" haaretz.com/world-news/eur…
Jan 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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"There's a substantial difference between this operation and the others," Col. A., the commander of the Menashe Brigade whose full name cannot be disclosed according to new IDF regulations, told Haaretz about the current operation in Jenin haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"In all the operations up to now, we carried out raids, but this time we want to neutralize the Jenin battalion," he said haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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Netanyahu has rushed to shield tech billionaire Elon Musk, saying he was being "falsely smeared" for an apparent fascist salute during Trump's inauguration haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Elon Musk is not the first (and probably not the last) peddler of antisemitic conspiracy theories to be defended and excused by Mr. Netanyahu.
For more on how Musk made X a safer place for antisemites, see the links in the next tweets haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Israel is blocking the United Nations from investigating sexual crimes committed by Hamas during its October 7 attack, fearing it would require granting access to probe allegations of sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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A thorough investigation could have led to Hamas being added to the UN's blacklist of entities suspected of sexual violence in conflicts haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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A commander in the IDF's Nahal Brigade shot and killed a Palestinian who was assisting IDF troops in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, according to a report by the Hebrew-language independent investigative journalism site "The Hottest Place in Hell" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to the report, the Palestinian – who was forced to serve as a human shield and search buildings in the Khan Yunis area – had received the Israeli army's permission to be present in the building haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Dec 23, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Israelis view the IDF as a moral army. The discussion of atrocities evokes emotional resistance even though it's intellectually understood that crimes exist in every civilized society and that war crimes have been committed by soldiers in every army haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
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Developmental psychologists have identified callous traits in young children while social psychologists have demonstrated that authoritative directives and social pressure lead ordinary people to harmful behavior haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
Dec 4, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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The human rights organization B'Tselem released a new report on Tuesday on Israel Defense Forces soldiers routinely abusing Palestinian residents in the West Bank city of Hebron haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to the report, which includes testimony from 25 people, the abuse follows a systematic pattern haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Nov 27, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Israel's Knesset advances bill to limit Arab participation in local elections haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Israel's Knesset approved in a preliminary reading on Wednesday an amendment to a law that would make it easier to disqualify Arab candidates from running in municipal elections haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Oct 21, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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West Bank settlers are recruiting IDF reservists to protect illegal farm outposts and even help establish them, with military positions already set up for reservists as part of the army's so-called regional defense battalions haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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In these battalions, also known by the Hebrew acronym hagmar, soldiers who are mostly settlers themselves are recruited to guard settlements in the West Bank haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Oct 14, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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Hamas militants kidnap regime opponents and torture them. My friend Amin Abed's limbs were broken with steel bars, after he criticized Hamas on the media, writes an anonymous Palestinian from Gaza haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
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My friends in the southern Gaza Strip tell me that Hamas no longer operates freely in the area, but it's rebuilding itself under the moniker "popular committees," so it can protect its assets and monitor marketplaces haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
Oct 11, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Settlers in the West Bank are talking about what has been going on in recent years in farming and shepherding outposts, almost all of which are illegal, as no less than a revolution haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Its spirit embodies the "miracle" that National Missions Minister Orit Strock described in the context of the events triggered by the October 7 massacre haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Oct 8, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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This isn't the first time I've written that PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gallant and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi are gambling with Israel's very existence haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
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With one unwise decision, they might well ignite a multifront conflagration that would extend throughout the Middle East haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
Sep 4, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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"Netanyahu decided some weeks ago that he does not want a deal, and when it became possible, he got nervous and did all he could to torpedo it" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"He figured out that by using the Philadelphi corridor, he could also draw the sane right to his side, and win some points with this group" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Aug 29, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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A Palestinian was attacked by Israelis wearing army and police uniforms overnight into Sunday while with friends at Auja wadi, a stream in the West Bank, according to testimonies received by Haaretz haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Two eyewitnesses said that the attackers were Israeli police officers and soldiers who wore masks, adding that some of them arrived at the scene in a Border Police car haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Aug 21, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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A few months ago, foreign hackers managed to break into a computer linked to Israel's Justice Ministry. Tens of thousands of classified files and sensitive emails were leaked / @omerbenj haaretz.com/israel-news/se…
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Links allowing anyone to download the breached files were published on Telegram, the popular instant messaging app.
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This project tells the stories of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7, a snapshot of forty lives lost in the war, whether by Israeli airstrikes, lack of medical care or malnutrition / @ztnagham haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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The information presented was gathered from various sources, including interviews with friends and family members of the deceased, publicly shared tributes and accounts and news reports haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
Aug 13, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Haaretz Investigation: Israeli army uses Palestinian civilians to inspect potentially booby-trapped tunnels in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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At first, it's hard to recognize them. They're usually wearing Israeli army uniforms, many of them are in their 20s, and they're always with Israeli soldiers of various ranks haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Aug 10, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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Jewish settlers attacked four Arab Israeli women from the Bedouin city of Rahat after they accidentally entered the West Bank outpost of Givat Ronen on Friday. A two-year-old baby was also in the vehicle haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"We were driving toward Nablus and the Waze [navigation app] misled us," Nufa, one of the women in the car, told Haaretz. "We accidentally went somewhere, and then people started running after the car, throwing rocks from the hill" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jul 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Israeli military police raided the Sde Teiman detention center and detained nine reservists on suspicion of abusing a Palestinian detainee. After reports of the detentions, dozens of protesters, including lawmakers, broke into the base in protest haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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A confrontation reportedly developed between military police and some soldiers, who refused to evacuate and barricaded themselves in the facility. Some soldiers reportedly pepper-sprayed military personnel that arrived to detain the suspects haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jun 30, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved a bill that would effectively bar administrative detention, or detention without trial, for Jews haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The bill states administrative detention would be allowed only if there are "reasonable grounds for assuming" that a person belongs to a terror group "whose goal is to undermine the existence of the state or commit terror against its citizens" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
