🚨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🧵 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

🚨🚨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🧵 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

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!

When the genocide ends, I can write a giant book on mainstream media journalists who constantly wasted hours & hours of my & my colleagues time to do unrequited toil & collect indisputable evidence for them of Israeli crimes, only to NEVER publish a single word, ever! 2\ Journalist A last Dec: can you send me geolocation, footage from multiple angles, eyewitnesses, dates... of Israel shooting civilians raising white flags?

They never published a word

A few weeks ago same journalist: can you send me more recent incidents, the story is old now

This was Gaza 5 MONTHS before October 7🧵

Western govs & media will always pretend violence starts ONLY whenever Israelis are attacked. That's when history begins!

B/c we are *expected* to be murdered, crippled & dispossessed & keep quiet. That's "peace" to them, that's normal! 2\ This was Gaza 5 MONTHS before Oct 7:
Israel bombs a shelter for people with disabilities & special needs in Jabaliya on May 13, 2023

Did you see any reference to this in a single mainstream media outlet or in a single speech by a US or EU leader?

54% of Palestinians still support October 7 a year later.

The 2 most vital questions are: what do they exactly support? & why? I spent months interviewing dozens of Palestinians on this🧵

1- Support for October 7 does NOT mean support for Hamas or atrocities against civilians

There are currently two October 7s in people's minds; one that Israel and pro-Israeli crowds see of pure evil, which focuses solely on the killing & kidnapping of civilians, omitting everything else.

The other Oct 7 that 54% of Palestinians voice support for, which is the attacks on military targets that broke Israel’s image of invincibility & the "prison break" moment of defeating Gaza's confinement.

90% of the Palestinian supporters of Oct 7 "believe Hamas men did not commit” alleged or documented atrocities from that day (per the source of that poll).

That is b/c Oct 7 is understood to have consisted of 2 waves (something acknowledged by the ICC Chief Prosecutor). The 1st wave was made of elite Hamas "Nukhba" militants & predominantly focused on Israeli military bases surrounding Gaza.

The 2nd wave formed spontaneously once the news broke out in Gaza & anyone with a gun rushed to the fence, including members of 6 other armed factions & non-Nukhba Hamas individuals as well as Gaza’s riff-raffs & hooligans & curious spectators. This wave had no central command, prior plans, coordination, or set goals, which prompted even Hamas’ own Yahia Sinwar to acknowledge that “things went out of control” (per WSJ).

Also, the wave of attacks on Israeli Kibbutzism on October 7 are clouded to many Palestinians by doubt over how much of the atrocity narratives is accurate. This is in light of debuked disinformation Israel’s government deliberately tried to spread as well as Israeli reports of “numerous” incidents of friendly fire & activating the “hannibal protocol” which authorizes the IDF to thwart suspected kidnapping attempts by killing everyone at the scene. Add to this Israel’s strict military censorship over what is allowed to be published. 2- Why do 54% of Palestinians still support Oct 7 a year later?

80% of those Palestinians do so b/c it “has put the Palestinian issue at the center of attention & eliminated years of neglect” (per the poll's source). This sentiment stems from a context of Gazans suffering slow death for 2 decades under Israel's siege while the world looked the other way.

In their support for Oct 7, many Palestinians cite the desperate necessity to disrupt an excruciating 17-year-long siege on Gaza that had already rendered the enclave “uninhabitable” by 2020 & pushed many futureless yet highly educated youth to the brink of suicide.

They also bring up a profound sense of isolation & abandonment that preceded this war where Palestinians’ plight was relegated to the sidelines of international discourse; seen as a mere hurdle on the path to Israeli-Arab normalization, which deepened the fear that Palestinians' suffering would persist indefinitely.

Compounding this was an increased sense of existential threat under Israel’s most far-right government in history, due to rising attacks by Israeli settlers & the IDF across the West Bank, with 2022 and 2023 marking the deadliest years for Palestinians since records began in 2005, and Israel’s largest land theft for settlements in decades.

🚨Israel is arming criminal gangs in Gaza with US-made assault rifles to sow chaos & societal collapse:

Those kids in Deir Al-Balah were armed with M16s that can ONLY enter Gaza through Israel.

They're openly firing their M16s without any fear of Israeli troops 800 meters away! 2\ The US M16 rifles those kids are parading around look very new.

Hamas doesn't smuggle those into Gaza, they use soviet AK-47s rifles.

Similar M16 rifles were reportedly seen with gangs that loot aid trucks & rob homes & civilians.

There's been also 2 major bank robberies.

Deliberately downplaying Israeli atrocities:

A 1,743-word story about IDF soldiers RAPING a Gazan civilian does NOT mention the word "rape" a single time

In passing, the article uses vague language like "violate from behind"

They also omitted important parts of his testimony! 2\ Ibrahim Salem testified earlier that Israeli soldiers raped him & other Gazan civilians kidnapped to the Sde Teiman torture camp, including children.

Most of his testimony here was left out in the CNN article above.

The article deliberately downplays Israel's rape of Salem!

Assassinating Haniya is an empty victory image that reeks of desperation & malevolence.

He was a politician not a militant leader. Israeli media themselves admit his killing will have minimal effect on Hamas' operations.

But it'll dramatically impact internal power dynamics🧵 2\ Haniya lived in the open & NOT in hiding like Sinwar. So reaching his head is NOT an achievement.

Why kill him now?
1- Ruin the ceasefire/prisoner swap negotiations
2- Kill chances of Palestinian unity after Beijing's summit
3- Push Hamas to become more hardline

🚨Israeli soldiers severely gang RAPED a Gazan detainee at the Sde Teiman torture camp.

The case was so extreme, the victim had to be hospitalized & the IDF had to detain 10 reservists!

Israeli ministers are now calling the rapists "holy" & "heroes", demanding their release🧵

2\ Israel's Knesset (currently on summer break) is holding an emergency discussion tomorrow to defend the rapist IDF soldiers who were detained for gang raping a Gazan detainee so severely, he had to be hospitalized.

Sources:
ynet.co.il/news/article/s…
israelhayom.co.il/news/politics/…

🚨Extremely important testimonies of Israeli soldiers admitting to unspeakable atrocities in Gaza:
Mass graves; tanks crushing Gazans alive; littering the streets with bodies of civilians, women & children for dogs to feast on; & shooting indiscriminately for fun out of boredom🧵 2\ Soldiers admit the IDF is littering the streets of Gaza with decomposing bodies of murdered children, women & civilians, left for dogs & cats to feast on

When humanitarian convoys come in, IDF bulldozers dump the bodies in mass graves under the rubble to hide the scene...

Folks don't understand the serious brain damage Israel torture at Sde Teiman leaves Palestinians with permanently.

Being blindfolded, handcuffed & muzzled all day long for months under threat of severe torture leads the brain to atrophie & creates serious neurological damage🧵 2\ Sustained stress of enforced isolation & sensory deprivation decreases the size of the hippocampus, the brain region related to learning, memory, & spatial awareness, & "a decrease in the formation of new neurons, & the eventual failure in hippocampal function."
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-…

🚨Israel's +972 newspaper reports 6 new cases of IDF soldier RAPING kidnapped Palestinian civilians at the Sde Teiman prison camp & forcing the rest to watch.

The 6th report this year, making these incidents of rape systematic & widespread (i.e. crime against humanity) 🧵 2\ NYTimes reported in June that Israel is RAPING kidnapped Gazans in the Sde Teiman prison camp:

A Gazan died after penetration by an electric stick

A female IDF officer ordered the rape of a senior Gazan nurse

A UN worker forced to sit on a "hot metal stick"

Israel's latest lunatic lie to justify the IDF dog that mauled an elderly woman is that Hamas kidnapped the dog in front of IDF soldiers, tamed him, trained him to attack elderly civilians & unleashed him🤡

So, here's a🧵 of the IDF using dogs systematically to maul Gazans:

March 24: Survivors of the Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital & its surrounding area describe field executions, home burnings, civilians being run over by tanks, & IDF dogs mauling both the living & the dead:

🚨UN finds evidence of systematic Israeli sexual violence against Gazan women, CHILDREN & men!

Women being stripped down to their underwear & sexually harassed while male relatives are forced to watch

Female soldier forced boys to dance semi-naked & filmed them while laughing🧵

2\ IDF soldiers sexually harassing minor girls in front of their male relatives & forcing women at gun point to strip down to their underwear, some are groped & touched.

Women who refuse are beaten, abused, detained for days & threatened to shoot to kill their children.

🚨Israel is RAPING kidnapped Gazans in the Sde Teiman prison camp

A Gazan died after penetration by an electric stick

A female IDF officer ordered the rape of a senior Gazan nurse

A UN worker forced to sit on a "hot metal stick"

This is the 4th report of IDF rape this year🧵

2\ Last April, Haaretz documented this testimony of rape

"They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped & forced to lie one on top of the other.... They were beaten with clubs & spat on. A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of Abu Halil & other prisoners"

Reminder: al-Shifa hospital director, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, has been kidnapped by the IDF for 196 days

Released Gazans who saw him in detention camps say he was chained & leashed; forced to walk on all fours & eat from an animal bowl; & excessively tortured with broken limps!
I asked an Israeli lawyer about the accuracy of the witnesses' testimony on Israel's treatment of Abu Salmiya.

The lawyer said they know many cases since Oct 7 where Israeli prison guards would storm a cell at night & force detainees to bark & act like dogs!

Haaretz confirms👇

A few thoughts on the ICC arrest warrants🧵

Hamas doesn't stand to lose much, but Israel might lose dearly

Palestinian reconciliation might get even more difficult

Hamas recently pledged to cooperate with the ICC investigation, Israel rejected it out of hand as "antisemitic" 2\ Netanyahu won't be able to step a foot on any of the 124 countries in Green, including the EU. Israeli ministers & IDF general would fear going to any of these countries in case of surprise arrest warrants.

The reputational damage to Israel could lead to halting arm deals, boycotts, declining foreign investments...

World leaders won't be eager to meet & be pictured with a guy accused of crimes against humanity.

Pressure can be increased on Israel's Western patrons to act.

A🧵debunking Israel's talking points on Rafah through the words of top *Israeli* generals & leaders on why the invasion:
Will NOT defeat Hamas
May cost the lives of all hostages
Is NOT necessary
& that Hamas is "still alive & kicking" in every city the IDF invaded & destroyed...





2\ Israel's own (under)estimates is that there's still 5,000 armed Hamas militants in Northern Gaza after 210 days

IDF General (res.) Israel Ziv admits Hamas is "still alive & kicking" in northern Gaza after everything Israel did there, including destroying & damaging over 70% of all homes!

Sources:
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/…
inn.co.il/news/632528

🚨Israel is RAPING & sexually assaulting Palestinian detainees:

"They were led to the kitchen, where they were stripped & forced to lie one on top of the other.... They were beaten with clubs & spat on. A guard then started to stuff carrots into the anus of Abu Halil & other prisoners." 2\ Israel's sexual abuse of those detainees that spoke up was a routine: "Again they were stripped. This time they were kicked in the testicles. The guards would lunge at them & kick, lunge & kick, again & again. Nonstop brutality for 25 minutes. 'We are Bruce Lee,' the guards proclaimed. They shook them & shoved them around like balls from one corner of the room to the other, then moved them to their new cells in Block 6."

🚨Harrowing evidence revealed of Israel's execution of Gazans at the Nasser hospital mass grave 🧵

These 2 bodies were both shot in the head, both hand-tied.

Multiple discovered bodies were zip-tied, some both arms & legs. Some buried in patient gowns, including children.

2\ Multiple bodies discovered at the Nasser hospital mass grave had their arms tied with zip-ties or duck tape.

Many bodies were buried at a 3 meter depth to accelerate decomposition.