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Dec 23 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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…
Jun 7 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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Palestinian photographer Saif Kwasmi, who was attacked Wednesday by Jewish youths participating in the flag march in Jerusalem, was later detained by police haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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As far as is known, the police did not arrest any of Kwasmi's attackers, summon any suspects for questioning, or call in other victims or witnesses to testify haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
May 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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IDF investigation finds that Israeli army forces fired at a UN vehicle in the Rafah area last Monday, leading to the death of an aid worker / @yanivkub haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The killed worker was identified as Waibhav Anil Kale, an Indian national who worked in the UN's Safety and Security Division. Another UN worker, a Jordanian national, was wounded in the incident haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
May 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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The deputy head of Israel's National Security Council, Yoram Hemo (who resigned from his position last week,) wrote in an official document presented to the war cabinet that Israel's strategic action pattern failed in the war, and cannot succeed haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Senior officials in the war cabinet who read the document said that Hemo claims that the war should be stopped haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
May 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Far-right activists in the West Bank assaulted a Palestinian truck driver, believing his truck, along with another, was carrying aid to Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Footage from the scene indicated that the activists stopped both trucks near the Givat Asaf settlement, unloaded their cargo, deflated their tires, and set them on fire haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Apr 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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The U.S. is expected to impose sanctions on the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion because of its involvement in human rights violations in the West Bank haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Here is a Haaretz investigation by @yanivkub into the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, originally published in February 2022.
Lies, violence and far-right ideology: The West Bank militia formed inside the Israeli army haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Apr 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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A bit of backbone emerges: Interior Minister Moshe Arbel wrote a scathing letter to PM Netanyahu due to the premier's decision to interfere in the ministry's authority over the entry of foreign workers into Israel haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Since October 7, Israel has experienced a severe shortage of foreign workers. as Palestinian workers were barred from entering the country, and thousands of others left haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
