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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…
Apr 2 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to defense sources, the cars were clearly marked as belonging to the organization, but the war room of the unit responsible for securing the route identified an armed man on the truck and suspected that he was a terrorist, sources said haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Mar 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Twelve young women live in the three-story villa at the edge of Be'er Yaakov, a town southeast of Tel Aviv. They take turns with the cooking, smoke together in the garden, and sleep in well-lit and well-kept rooms, two or three to a room haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Next to their beds they hang posters, paintings and inspirational quotes.
Five months into the war, there is almost nothing left of Gaza's substantial Ukrainian community. The women who helped found it had to flee, becoming asylum seekers scattered across Europe / @lizarozovsky haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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"When Netanyahu and the radical right came to power, I immediately told my husband that we had to sell everything and leave. I knew there would be a war. I told him, 'With this party, there is no other possibility'" haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
Mar 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Israel's English-language government spokesman Eylon Levy has been suspended from his post. The Prime Minister's office confirmed this, but did not specify the reason / @shap56405 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to speculation by Israeli news outlets, Levy's suspension stems from his response on X to a post by British Foreign Secretary David Cameron concerning humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Mar 18 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Beyond the fact that as a journalist I never sign petitions, I have no positive expectations of Israeli academic institutions, so I didn't sign a protest letter against the suspension of Hebrew University professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian / Amira Hess haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…
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The dean of a professor who was suspended for comments she made regarding October 7 said he opposes her return to teaching unless she recants haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Mar 15 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
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If you're not living this war, as Israelis and Palestinians are, then your conception of it will be constructed from selective snapshots by necessity. The pieces you see are dependent on the kind of media you consume and are exposed to haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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And then there are the snapshots you decide to believe, which in general will confirm preexisting beliefs or what you need to believe to justify your own predicament, which may have very little, if anything, to do with the war itself haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Mar 14 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
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Chuck Schumer's watershed speech calling for new Israeli elections and the end of Netanyahu's time as PM drew sharp partisan reactions, demonstrating how the Israeli PM's standing in D.C. is becoming politicized like never before / @Bsamuels0 haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…
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The Likud Party released a statement regarding the speech, that reads: "Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent, proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Netanyahu" / @Bsamuels0 haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…
Mar 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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27 Gaza detainees have died in custody at Israeli military facilities since the outbreak of the war, according to figures obtained by Haaretz haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The detainees died at the Sde Teiman and Anatot facilities or during questioning in Israeli territory. The IDF Spokesperson's Office said the Investigative Military Police has opened investigations into the deaths haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Mar 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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The police are holding Palestinians in makeshift cages made of bars, with no walls, beds or toilets, due to a shortage of prison cells haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Detainees who had permits allowing them to be in Israel that were revoked when the war broke out are being held in these cage-like cells, which are located outside a Border Police base in Atarot, near Jerusalem haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Feb 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Israel's national lampoonery minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, recently fled his security guards and took a ride with his neighbor.
According to several sources, the security guards were forced to chase the minister over several kilometers haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Ben-Gvir was angry that the driver of the armored car did not arrive at his house in the morning and that the team was not ready for him as expected haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Feb 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Reversing an earlier denial, IDF officials have admitted that a Telegram channel aimed at Israelis was operated by members of a department of the Operations Directorate haaretz.com/israel-news/se…
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The admission comes after an Haaretz exposé on the channel last month, which led to an internal investigation into the matter haaretz.com/israel-news/se…
Jan 28 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
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It's amazing to be shown over and over how clear the writing was on the wall – the long period during which the murderous plan that Hamas carried out on October 7 was known to Israeli political and military officials / Gidi Weitz haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"Everything has been known since 2014," said someone this week who served in an important security-related position at the time.
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The de-Judaization and universalization of the Holocaust inevitably meant that the Holocaust would become a stick that would be used to beat up the Jews themselves, writes @AnshelPfeffer haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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This isn't a new phenomenon: as far back as the early 1950s, Jews were being called Nazis by Stalinist propaganda haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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A week after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli communities near the Gaza border, Aisha Al-Aza, a 19-year-old Palestinian resident of Hebron, went up to the roof of her home haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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A man she recognized appeared across from her – a settler who was her neighbor. But there was something different. He was wearing a military uniform and was armed with an M16 assault rifle haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 12 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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It was an uncalled for, sad and bad day for Israel at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Friday, writes @AlonPinkas haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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On the one hand, Israel made a compelling case against the obscene accusation of "genocide" for its military response in the Gaza Strip following the October 7 massacre haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 9 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Aviva Siegel, 62, was kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Kfar Azza and released after 51 days in captivity.
On Tuesday, she told Israeli lawmakers that she witnessed women hostages being harmed during her time in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"There was another case where a hostage was thought to be a soldier, so they tortured her right next to me, I witnessed it," Siegel told the first Knesset meeting of the lobby to release Hamas hostages haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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An Israeli man was shot dead in his car in the West Bank on Sunday, in what the military said was an attack by Palestinians haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The Israeli military said it was searching for suspects, and sources in Ramallah said entry points of the city had been closed because of the search haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jan 1 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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The IDF ruled on Sunday that a well-known Palestinian activist from the West Bank will be held for four months without trial.
The activist, Monder Amira, was arrested in his home on suspicion of incitement in mid-December haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Amira works for the Palestinian Authority's Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission and is the head of Aida refugee camp's youth center, located near Bethlehem haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Dec 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Dozens of psychiatrists working in Israel's public mental health system have left recently for Britain, sources in the sector say.
The exodus comes at a time when demand for mental health services in Israel has been growing due to the war haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The heads of mental health centers around the country last week sent a letter to State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman warning that "Israel's mental health system is close to complete collapse" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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