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Visiting Fellow @ECFR || Gazan Political Analyst & Writer
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Jun 8 5 tweets 4 min read
Here's how & why GHF massacres happen daily (step by step)🧵

1- Starved Gazans sleep in the open near al-Mawasi's Mu'awiya mosque that leads to the GHF "hubs"

Near dawn, more desperate people arrive & start pushing the queue to get to GHF

IDF fires: 1st massacre of the day at 3:00-4:00. Everyday, like clockwork

The more fires shot, the more starved people panic, scatter or stampede, & the more violently the IDF attacks (e.g. tank shells, live bullets)
2- The gangs arrive first:

At the crack of dawn, the IDF & GHF allow in collaborators, looters, gang members & subcontractors who open boxes to scavenge & loot the most valuable items (e.g. oil) to sell on the black market

No massacres at that point
Jun 1 4 tweets 4 min read
🚨Anyone claiming Hamas rejected Witkoff's ceasefire deal is outright lying

Hamas accepted the proposal & added to it the following points:

1- Hamas steps down from gov, hands control over Gaza to a technocratic independent committee (Netanyahu removed this from an earlier draft)

2- Immediately rehabilitating Gaza's infrastructure, inc. electricity, water, sanitation, telecom, roads, hospitals, schools

3- Negotiating a possible long-term truce for 5-7 years that entails full cessation of "offensive military operations" by both sides

4- Allowing Gazans to travel out of & back to Gaza freely through the Rafah crossing & resuming commercial goods & trade

5- Finalising reconstruction arrangement & plans during the negotiations on ending the war & providing aid to Gazans affected by the war.

6- Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip to be implemented over 3-5 years (i.e. the widely endorsed Egyptian plan); under the supervision of a number of countries & organizations, including Egypt, Qatar, & UN.

6- Ceasefire would continue automatically after the 60 day pause if Israel & Hamas are still negotiating by then (this was a basic condition in the Jan 19 ceasefire agreement Netanyahu signed).

7- Hamas would release 10 Israeli captives & 18 bodies during the 60-day pause, & will release all remaining captives as soon as the final phase is agreed upon (i.e. ending the war).

Most of those points were ALREADY in the outline Hamas reached with Trump's negotiating team last week before Netanyahu rejected that proposal completely out of hand & forced Witkoff to take those items offImage
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2\ Hamas' full response in English is here:
dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-respon…
May 30 8 tweets 5 min read
🚨Conclusive evidence of Israel running the very criminal gangs looting aid in Gaza🧵

Hamas released footage today of an ambush against what they thought were Israeli Mista'arvim (undercover) soldiers in Rafah

But upon closer inspection, they turned out to be Abu Shabab's gang; the Israel-backed warlord, drug dealer, & serial criminal responsible for looting the vast majority of aid under full IDF protection.

Abu Shabab runs a gang of 100-200 armed mercenaries who sat up a military complex in Rafah with Israel's backing

In the footage, Abu Shabab's mercenaries were walking around a depopulated Rafah freely carrying weapons in front of Israeli troops (currently any Palestinian that walks into Rafah is killed on the spot).

The mercenaries were conducting surveillance activities for Israel of those areas. 2\ From the Hamas footage, a senior Abu Shabab gang leader is identified; Ghassan Al-Dahini is the mercenary running the gang's operation on the ground

He survived this ambush & is believed to still be running the Israel-backed gang Image
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May 27 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨Thousands of starved Gazans storm the dystopian Israeli-American aid complex in Rafah after being forced to stand in endless queues & bake in the sun in a fenced concentration camp while being subjected to biometric surveillance

US mercenaries & Israeli troops are opening fire
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2\ Israel's Kan reports the US mercenaries were likely the ones opening fire at the starved crowds, while reports from Gaza indicate Israeli troops also fired at the crowds

People were told to stand in queue all day while mercenaries pick & choose who gets aid & who starves Image
May 21 5 tweets 2 min read
False! Mohammed Sinwar was (allegedly) killed within a radius of over 500 METERS from that Gazan hospital

Which is about the same distance the IDF Bunker/HQ in Tel-Aviv is located from the Azrieli Shopping Mall, Tel-Aviv Museum of arts & the Assuta Hashalom HOSPITAL🧵 Image 2\ Israel indiscriminately carpet bombed Gaza's European hospital & its surrounding areas up to 500 meters with bunker buster missiles

Israel weaponizes a lethal gas that is a byproduct of those missiles to kill anyone inside targeted tunnels even if distant from the impact area Image
May 19 5 tweets 3 min read
Devil's in the detail: No! Israel didn't end its starvation policy in Gaza

They just decided to allow 3.3% of the bare minimum amount of aid necessary for human survival, & only temporarily for one week until they set up dystopian "hubs" in Rafah run by armed US mercenaries🧵 Image
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2\ Israel makes clear those dystopian aid "hubs" will be set up in Rafah, run by armed US mercenaries, equipped with facial recognition tech for massive surveillance & surrounded by Israeli checkpoints teeming with genocidal soldiers.

This is a trap/bait, not "humanitarian aid"! Image
May 16 8 tweets 3 min read
Israel claims its alleged assassination attempt of Mohammed Sinwar will "boost hostage deal efforts" & "damage Hamas' capabilities"

Both claims are completely false & the opposite is the only likely result; those assassinations can only sabotage ceasefire talks, prolong war🧵 Image 2\ Hamas currently operates in a decentralized way; each cell acts autonomously & independently from the other in terms of ambushing the IDF

The top Qassam leadership are superfluous, as there's no need for coordination, chain of command or central planning in guerrilla warfare!
May 15 6 tweets 4 min read
On Nakba day, time to debunk Israel's foundational myths with their own words🧵

Myth No 1: "Israel accepted partition, Palestinians rejected"

Israel NEVER accepted partition; they only exploited it as a tactical step towards ethnic cleansing

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2\ Partition would've meant Israel would have a 40% Arab minority in their half of the land

Ben Gurion made clear this was unacceptable to the Zionists. They wanted an "absolute majority" for Jewish Israelis, which could only be established through atrocities & mass expulsion Image
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May 13 5 tweets 3 min read
Israel is using this 2020 picture to legitimize murdering a top Gazan journalist on his hospital bed (double war crime)🧵

Here's the picture's background: Hassan was covering a public event Sinwar held with Gaza youth to discuss national reconciliation

Sinwar approached Hassan, told him he was an excellent journalist & asked him to take a picture of them together.

Sinwar had been away from the public sphere for a long time before that conference, so he wanted this picture to be a message to Israel that he's back.

He chose Hassan because he was a household name in Gaza with a large following; he was the go to person for any updates on Gaza.

Hassan himself was NOT part of Hamas or any other militant group. He NEVER took part in any hostilities that would justify killing him.

Israel murdered him because he was a gatekeeper to a huge amount of evidence of their genocide; he was always the first journalist at any site of a massacre or an airstrike. He would've been a key witness to the ICC & ICJ.

That's why Israel has murdered the largest number of journalists at the fastest pace in human history; to suppress any coverage of the genocide & destroy any evidence of their atrocities after.Image 2\ Here's Sinwar schmoozing with Egypt's intelligence minister Abbas Kamel, does that render Kamel a legitimate target?

Israel's argument that a single picture a journalist took with the ruler of Gaza is grounds for murder; how many Israeli journalists have pics with Netanyahu? Image
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May 9 10 tweets 2 min read
This "aid" plan is so dystopian, starved Gazans are saying one has to be completely insane to step a foot into those militarized compounds run by American mercenaries in an area fully controlled by the IDF

Gazans, the UN & EU diplomats all see it as a dangerous & criminal trap🧵 Image 1\ Divide & rule: under this "aid" plan, Israel decides who gets food in Gaza & who starves to death

Anyone receiving aid would be "screened" by Israel with an undisclosed secret process

I.e. if you ever wrote a post critical of the genocide, the IDF could blacklist your name
May 6 9 tweets 4 min read
🧵The 1st to predict this inevitability in 1934 was Jewish-German psychologist Erich Neumann, who wrote upon meeting Zionists in Palestine:
"Everything [here] leads to fascism... I fear that all our repressed passions, all our ambitions for power and revenge, all the brutality hidden in us, will come to fruition here... This could result in the 'shadow' finally being released & here in Palestine for the 1st time it could be seen & erupt, because there is no external pressure here. It will certainly not be pleasant"Image 2\ In 1948, Albert Einstein & Hannah Arendt noticed it quickly & warned that Israel's Haherut party (today Netanyahu's Likud) was akin to "Nazi & Fascist parties" in its "organization, methods, political philosophy & social appeal". Image
Apr 16 16 tweets 5 min read
🚨Israel's demand of disarming Hamas is a red herring designed to sabotage any ceasefire talks🧵

Hamas has virtually no offensive weaponry left (e.g. rockets, tunnels crossing into Israel)

They have light weaponry (e.g. rifles & anti-tank missiles)

Another Oct 7 is impossible! Image 2\ Hamas currently does NOT have the capacity to threaten Israel itself (e.g. rockets)

But they DO have the capacity to maintain a long insurgency *inside* Gaza against the IDF (not Israel itself)

Any serious Israeli analyst would tell you the chances of another Oct 7 are zero! Image
Mar 26 16 tweets 5 min read
Getting many questions about the demonstrations in Gaza

So here's my full assessment of the protests; their potential & limitations; genuineness & spontaneity vs outside influence; motives & goals; & their ability to actually challenge Hamas or bring the war close to an end🧵 Image 1\ The protests seem to have started spontaneously in small numbers & limited areas. Their grievances are genuine; people are tired, desperate for the genocide to end at any cost, many want Hamas to step down from gov to take away Israel's pretext for the siege & killing

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Feb 11 14 tweets 5 min read
"Pay for slay" is a deeply racist Israeli trope that Palestinians are so deplorable, they'd want to get killed or imprisoned for life only for a few pennies!

The collaborationist Palestinian Authority NEVER paid anyone to attack Israel!

Israel has an identical prisoner fund🧵 Image 2\ The PA paid financial support to Palestinians maimed or detained by Israel & families of those killed

Israel has an identical fund: "Prisoners of Zion & Families of Martyrs". It gives benefits to those imprisoned or killed for "Zionist activity" abroad or in mandate Palestine Image
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Jan 25 4 tweets 1 min read
🚨🚨Netanyahu violates the ceasefire deal & declares Israel won’t allow displaced Gazans to return to the North today

The agreement👇 clearly says Israe should allow this unrestricted return of 1 million Gazans on day 7 (today) after the release of 7 female hostages (4 today, 3 last Sunday)Image 2\ Netanyahu is asking now for an additional female hostage, Arbel Yehoud, to be released today before allowing people back to the north

It’s unknown if Arbel is even alive. If she’s dead, it means her body would only be released at the end of phase 1 (as Israel itself demanded)
Jan 19 5 tweets 2 min read
Yes, can you imagine? Israel would surely NEVER do such thing 🤡

(I've got a whole 🧵 of those barbarians👇) 2\ It became a Tiktok challenge during the genocide for Israeli soldiers to kidnap Palestinians, torture & humiliate them & force them on camera to wave the Israeli flag &/or sing Israel's national anthem
Dec 15, 2024 9 tweets 3 min read
Just read the "research" cited here by an org whose own co-founder called it "a far-right, deeply anti-Muslim racist organisation, run in the most dictatorial, corrupt & undemocratic fashion & utilized as a propaganda outfit".

As expected their report is a fraud🧵 Image 1\ Author's main assumption is Gaza's causality figure is impossible b/c that'd mean Israel is targeting civilians & there's "no evidence" of this.

The ICC prosecutor literally charged Netanyahu with the Crime against Humanity of extermination for deliberately killing civilians! Image
Nov 19, 2024 7 tweets 4 min read
🚨Israel is aiding ISIS-linked terrorists & criminals to sow chaos & famine in Gaza:

Shadi al-Sofi, a wanted murderer & son of an informant/collaborator with Israel, & Yasser abu Shabab, a drug dealer, are the main warlords responsible for looting most aid under IDF protection.

They formed gangs of over 200 armed criminals & “established a military like compound” (per the UN) in an emptied "death zone" fully under IDF control, where they looted only this Saturday night about 100 aid trucks at once.

This way Israel can absolve itself of responsibility for its deliberate starvation policy in Gaza and say “look, we’re letting aid in, it’s Hamas’ fault that food doesn’t reach people” (as claimed by Senator Jon Fetterman yesterday).

IDF soldiers never fire at those gang members as they loot aid right in front of Israeli tanks & troops in a closed military zone that no Gazan is allowed into. The IDF only fires at local policemen whenever they try to prevent the looting.

Yasser Abu Shabab was arrested by Gaza's local police multiple times in the past for drug smuggling & trading, which is often facilitated by ISIS groups in Sinai.

Hamas militants attempted to eliminate him yesterday in an attack that killed 11 of his gang, including his brother & partner Fathi & the gang's accountant. 30 others were wounded.

Shadi Al-Sofi murdered in 2020 Jabr al-Qeeq, a PLFP member whom Israel had sentenced to life & imprisoned for 15 years for killing al-Sofi's father during the 1st Intifada for spying on Palestinians for Israel.

Al-Sofi was convicted in a Gazan court & the local police captured him in a special operation in late 2020, before he broke out of prison with the help of ISIS-linked militants & was smuggled out of Gaza to Sinai, then reportedly to Israel's Negev. He returned to Gaza with the IDF ground invasion where he now co-leads the criminal gangs that loot aid & sabotage humanitarian work under IDF protection.Image
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2\ This is the moment Gaza' police captured Shadi al-Sofi in 2020 for murdering Jabr al-Qeeq.

Al-Sofi was sentenced to death in court, before militants broke him out of prison & smuggled him into Sinai in 2021, only to return to Gaza 3 years later with the IDF invasion
Nov 15, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨Israel is systematically RAPING Palestinians, inc children & elderly, as a weapon of war:

2 journalists provide frightening testimonies about how IDF soldiers would randomly select a group of Gazan hostages, unleash dogs to "tear at their skin & flesh", RAPE them & film it🧵 Image 2\ Israeli soldiers beat to a pulp then RAPED a Gazan hostage with a fire extinguisher, emptied inside him until he lost consciousness! Doesn't speak since

Another was stripped naked, soldiers put a dog on top of him to rip his flesh & electrocuted his genitals with high voltage Image
Nov 12, 2024 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨🚨Israel engineering a famine in Gaza:
The IDF allows armed criminals to attack, loot & block a large portion of the aid shipments to Gaza.

This happens less than 100 meters from Israeli tanks & soldiers, who only fire at Gazan police whenever they try to stop the looting🧵 Image 2\ Creating "looting zones" is Israel's way of saying "look, we're letting aid into Gaza. It's not our fault there's starvation"

These "looting zones" are fully under Israeli control. If any Gaza civilian tries to approach them, they'd be executed immediately. This is deliberate Image
Nov 8, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
Mainstream media is deliberately NOT showing us the other side of the Amsterdam clashes; Israeli hooligans attacking local residents, chanting genocidal slogans & vandalising Palestinian flags.

Classic propaganda & disinformation by omission, followed by selective condemnations.
2\ As always, the story for mainstream media begins as soon as Israelis are attacked, never when they attack. They're always THE victim & only victim. Innocents only persecuted b/c of their faith of ethnicity is the classic narrative!