Israeli settler/soldiers arrived at the Palestinian village Khirbet Susiya late last night, threatened residents and told them to leave within 24 hours.
This is a red alert for violent forcible transfer, the international community needs to act now.
More details soon.
An Israeli high court justice, himself a settler, ruled yesterday that the army can forcibly transfer an entire Palestinian region, 12 villages, under the guise of "military training". A high court approved war crime.
It can only be averted if decision makers face consequences.
🚨the Israeli High Court gave the army the green light last night to forcibly transfer the residents of
#MasaferYatta
. Now the army can expel the people whenever they want.
Will you join me in resisting this war crime?
Settlers all over the West Bank see this war as a golden opportunity to torment Palestinians from small communities who are literally defenseless, to try and forcibly transfer them. It seems the Israeli army has given them a green light.
[1] BREAKING: 2.5 hours ago a bulldozer demolished 3 water cisterns and 2 water tanks in the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills. In addition to uprooting many trees and sealing up one of the caves of the community.
THREAD
@dannydanon
@EmmaWatson
ביקורת על הכיבוש הנתעב איננה אנטישמיות אלא אנושיות.
Criticism of the occupation isn't antisemitism - it's humanism.
Your shameful, false accusations trivialize antisemitism.
The police officers doing this are fully aware that they are being filmed. They just know there is ZERO chance of getting into trouble as a result.
For anyone baffled at how on earth Jerusalem police attacked
#ShireenAbuAkleh
's funeral.
The Israeli High Court of Justice just greenlighted the demolition of an entire Palestinian community, Khallet a-Dabe', in Masafer Yatta. This would be a war crime if implemented.
The final moments of 78 year old Omar As'ad, lying on the cold ground with his hands bound behind his back and blindfolded.
Believe it or not, this image was released to the media by the soldiers' lawyers as exculpatory.
Many people would have not been willing to believe that an Israeli soldier would cold bloodedly shoot an unarmed protester in the head, had it not been captured on video.
What you see in this video is 32-years-old ‘Amid Raleb al-Ja’oub, rushing to help another Palestinian who was wounded by Israeli forces in Beita, then being shot himself by them in the back of the neck and collapsing to the ground. >
Jerusalem police broke into the house of community leader Fakhry abu-Diab, in order to demolish it. The Jerusalem municipality and Israeli government are escalating their pressure and the only thing that can stop it is international consequences.
In the past hour, settlers shot dead a 40 year old Palestinian olive harvester from the village Sawiya. Settlers have been inciting and organizing attacks against olive harvesters on social media.
As the world's eyes are on Gaza, settlers in the West Bank continue to use the opportunity by escalating their terror attacks against Palestinians & their property.
Here are just 3 settler attacks from yesterday in the South Hebron Hills. As usual, no arrests were made.
Four year old Muhammad Hamamdeh is hospitalized with a fractured skull after being hit with a stone by Israeli settlers during the attack today. His father wants his image to be shared, so people know the kind of daily terror the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta live under.
80 רעולי פנים תקפו את הכפר מופגרה היום, ובין היתר, פגעו לילד בן ארבע בראש עם אבן. שמו מוחמד חמאמדה. יש לו סדק בגולגולת, ודימום פנימי שעצר. מחר יעבור ניתוח כנראה. אביו לידי, ביתם עם חלונות מנופצים, מבקש לשתף את התמונה, שיראו
Many Israelis would rather bury their head in the sand than admit that this call for ethnic cleansing is our government's position.
Smotrich touts revival of Gaza settlements after war, says no innocents in Strip via
@timesofisrael
Israel is now openly and permanently extending its "security zone" through southern Rafah, which means razing the entire strip near the border to the ground, with no-one in the international community batting an eyelid.
2/ צה״ל כבר מתחיל לחשוב על ציר פילדלפי לטווח הרחוק, איך אוחזים בו לאורך זמן. הרעיון דומה למה שקורה במסדרון נצרים - יצירת מרחב אבטחה. הנה בסרטון, כמה מאות מטרים מפילדלפי - דחפור הורס מבנים. המטרה היא לייצר שטח נקי ששולט על הציר, כדי לאפשר שליטה טובה גם חודשים רבים קדימה >>
Anyone thinking or talking about the day after Gaza, the two state solution, etc., needs to address the fact that a large part of Israel's military's soldiers and officers come from the religious Zionist community and some are overt Kahanists.
[1] Today, dozens of settlers coming from the direction of Yitzhar invaded the lands of Burin, assaulted farmers, set fire to vehicles, & vandalized & stole equipment and produce.
The Israeli army has been systematically demolishing all structures 1 KM deep around the Gaza perimeter, regardless of militant use, according to this credible independent news site.
Since nine o'clock in the morning, the occupation soldiers have destroyed more than four houses in Masafer Yatta and many barrels of water. The occupation forces are still continuing to destroy homes to implement the plan to ethnically cleanse us from here.
Some of the members of this settler militia documented today in Um-Safa appear to be off-duty soldiers (photo in next tweet). All carry military-issued weapons - you can't just buy an M4 here.
The criminal demolition in progress. Filmed minutes ago by Israeli activist Itai Feitelson.
18 people, 11 children condemned to live in freezing conditions, and their herd of sheep will be denied shelter.
The Israeli authorities were on a demolition spree again today, in Masafer Yatta: a-Tuwani, Al-Fakhit and al-Markez. In East Jerusalem: al-Walajah, Jabal al-Mukabber and al-'Esawiyah. Yesterday in Silwan.
This won't end until there are consequences for individuals and the system.
Footage of an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian who dared to resist the confiscation of his generator. Harun abu-Aram, resident of a-Rakeez, is in a critical condition. The family was rebuilding its home, demolished by Israel in Nov.
תקרית אלימה היום בשטחים באזור דרום הר חברון: הפלסטינים מדווחים על ירי צהל מקרוב בפלסטיני לא חמוש סמוך לעיירה יטא בעקבות ויכוח על החרמת גנרטור. התקרית צולמה ופורסמה בשטחים.
A man drives to work with his son. They reach a checkpoint. Other drivers honk in protest. Soldiers hurl a stun grenade that hits his car. He protests. Soldiers pepper spray his son and pull him out. When they try to force him to the ground, he resists and they shoot him dead. >
BREAKING: Yet another Palestinian community, A’nizan (South Hebron Hills), is being forcibly transferred from their lands as a result of settler violence.
The 4 families/35 residents of A’nizan are packing up their belongings and leaving their lands as we speak.
Just personally witnessed the illegal and shameful Israeli policy of destroying Palestinian homes in the West Bank. This was a family home in Jawaya, Masafer Yatta, reduced to rubble.
Israel will continue to throw Palestinians out of their homes to replace them with Jewish settlers until the EU and US make sure it is Israeli policymakers who regret their crimes.
1/2 We regret the decision by the Israeli authorities, following a court decision, to evict the Ghaith-Sub Laban family from the home they occupied since 1953 in the old city of occupied East Jerusalem.
@EylonALevy
Instead of all the whataboutism, why not just say that this is disgraceful? You're knee-jerk siding with the most extreme element of the Israeli far right.
After Israel's PM Netanyahu denies and minimizes settler violence, and even this under US pressure, settlers continue to terrorize Palestinian herding communities with impunity.
[1] BREAKING: Now in Tuba (Masafer Yatta, Firing Zone 918) Settlers accompanied by soldiers arrived at the village, opened water tanks of the Awad Family and emptied them to the ground.
As
#Israeli
military operations in
#Gaza
drive civilians closer to its southern borders, the looming possibility of mass deportation of
#Palestinians
to
#Egypt
grows. This alarming prospect follows recent media reports and explicit statements by Israeli officials endorsing such
Breaking. Please watch and retweet.
B'Tselem initial investigation debunks Israeli spin that video of Palestinian gunman depicts the killing of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
This morning, B’Tselem’s field researcher in Jenin documented the exact locations in which the Palestinian gunman depicted in a video distributed by the Israeli army, fired, as well as the exact location in which Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.
A disgraceful clutching at straws, aimed purely to insert doubt and muddy the water, when several credible eye witnesses consistently describe the opposite - that
#ShireenAbuAkleh
was killed by the Israeli army, in a location with no Palestinian gunmen.
Palestinians in Jenin were even filmed boasting "We hit a soldier; he’s lying on the ground”. However, no IDF soldier was injured, which increases the possibility that Palestinian terrorists were the ones who shot the journalist.
Israeli apartheid is continuing to demolish the homes and destroy the lives and livelihoods of some of the poorest Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
[1] BREAKING: This morning, the IL Civil Administration and Police accompanied bulldozers set for demolition and destruction in the South Hebron Hills. 4 structures and 3 water systems have been destroyed so far.
THREAD
Video by
@Yasmineranvardi
Ras a-Tin's refrigerator has no power, since Israel confiscated all the solar panels from the Bedouin community last week, together with its water supply.
Really puts the ice cream debate into perspective.
The bus nearby is owned by the Central Samaria Development Corporation, which is owned by the regional settlements. Clearly the settlers were bussed in officially, through the checkpoints set up by the army to stop Palestinians from entering Huwarah.
#IsraeliApartheid
After commiting a pogrom in Huwara, the settler criminals walk free.
They go "pray" at the site of the pogrom under military protection, in an isolated town reeling from a night of vicious terror.
Huwara is a ghostown tdy, exactly how the Zionists want it.
The Jerusalem municipality is currently demolishing a home and a structure serving as a clinic in Palestinian neighborhoods Beit Hanina and Jabel Mukaber.
Israel forces Palestinians to build without permits, and then punishes them for its own policy.
#IsraeliApartheid
I'm under no illusion that Israeli Jews like myself, who call out our country's apartheid, will not be called antisemites in this absurd time.
But this is not going to stop us.
German antisemitism czar says calling Israel 'apartheid' is antisemitic
The Israeli soldiers who left an 80 YO Palestinian for dead after detaining him and leaving him bound, gagged & blindfolded, testified the "operational activity" was to randomly stop & search Palestinian cars.
His only sin was to resist verbally & shout he's not a terrorist.
1/4
מצ"ח חקרה לפחות 5 לוחמים מנצח יהודה, בהם מ"פ ומ"מ, על האירוע בו מת עמר אסעד בן ה-80, ליד רמאללה.
זו התמונה שעולה לפי החשד:
1. הכוח ביצע צ'ק פוסט: הפתיע נהגים מצד כביש בכפר, רנדומלית, כשזינק לעבר מכוניות ממארב, לבדוק אם יש בהן מחבלים/אמל"ח.
2. אסעד עוכב, החל לצעוק ואמר=》
The bomb Israel used to bring down Al-Jalaa tower (with
@AP
&
@AJEnglish
offices) is a
#US_Made
GBU-31 bomb that weighs 907KG.
🧵Thread on
#Israel
's use of bombs & missiles Made in the USA to pound
#Gaza
:
The last three months have been an utterly dispiriting exercise in holocaust trivialization by many many Israeli politicians and influencers. I despair to think how we can return from this.
💥Stress appears to have gotten to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who screams that "In Gaza there there are Nazis, 2 million Nazis, held as hostages..."
@Now14Israel
"host" says "either they're hostages or they're Nazis…"
A privilege to accompany Minister
@ABaerbock
to the village al-Mazra'ah al-Qibliyah, northwest of Ramallah, to discuss the systematic Israeli policy of using settler violence as a tool to take over Palestinian land, and the need for consequences for this policy.
A Jewish terrorist opens fire at a Palestinian home. He knows there is no risk of being held accountable, because under
#IsraeliApartheid
Jews can attack Arabs with impunity and with state support.
יש כאן מיליציות. מטורף בעיני שאף-אחד לא מדבר על זה. אמש בחווארה, ב-13:32, מתנחל יורד מאוטו, פניו גלויות, ופותח בירי על בית של משפחה. 3 כדורים. הוא מסתובב לבתים בצד השני, וממשיך.
"ככה זה התחיל", עאיד מחארב, שגר בבית ותיעד את הירי, אמר לי. >
This is an emergency.
The level of violence, lies and harassment since yesterday makes it seems that these settlers, together with the army, are trying to repeat the violent expulsion of Wadi Seeq in October.
In the last two days, the Palestinian village ‘Ras Al-Ein’ is facing a continued attacks conducted by a mixed militia of Israeli police, army, and settlers. The attack includes livestock theft, random arrests, stone-throwing, tear-gas, and even the use of live ammunition.
The
All settler attacks of the past few days were advertised online in advance. Had the Israeli army really be "doing all we can" it could have identified locations & deployed soldiers to prevent these attacks or arrest perpetrators. More proof that settler violence is state-backed.
1/8 כבר מדובר בשגרה יומיומית: מתנחלים פושטים על כפרים פלסטינים ומבצעים פוגרומים בחפים מפשע. בצבא טוענים שהם "לא מצליחים" לזהות מראש את ההתארגנויות האלימות, ולכן לא מצליחים למנוע אותן. האמנם? 🧵
Israel currently detains about 500 Palestinians without trial, based on secret evidence, and the international community accepts it.
This explains why the Israeli government thought it could just as easily terror-designate civil society NGOs citing secret evidence.
Israeli authorities extended Amal Nakhleh's administrative detention order until May 18, 2022. He was detained without charge on Jan. 21, 2021—nearly a year ago. Amal suffers from a chronic autoimmune disease and turned 18 on Sunday. No charges have been filed against him.
I'm Israeli and I acknowledge that Israel prevents virtually all development in Palestinian rural communities under its control in the occupied West Bank. This, while Israeli Jewish settlers can and do steal land from Palestinians with the help of the military.
#ApartheidIsrael
Yesterday at around 8:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel accompanied by soldiers arrived at the village of al-'Aqabah in the northern Jordan Valley. The forces demolished a building under construction slated to house a family of ten, including eight minors. >
Happening now: Settlers are setting up a tent on Palestinian owned land in Tuba, Masafer Yatta. The tent is right next to a water cistern, and is clearly intended to prevent its use by Palestinian herders.
Israeli apartheid in action.
ברגעים אלו מתנחלים פולשים לאדמות של תושבי הכפר טובא ומקימים שם אוהל בסמיכות לבור מים השייך למשפחה מהכפר. האוהלים של היום הם המאחז של מחר. הכפר טובא נמצא בתוך מה שמשטר האפרטהייד מגדיר כ"שטח אש 918" אותו שטח בו גרים מעל 1000 פלסטינים שבגץ אישר את גירושם.
A privilege to reiterate
@btselem
's call: Israel must cease military operations, allow unlimited entry of humanitarian aid & goods into Gaza, enable its reconstruction, permit residents to return.
Hamas must unconditionally release all hostages & cease rocket fire on Israel.
מי אתם נציגי הקהילה הגאה (כולם גברים) שמסכימים להיות ניצבים במשדר תעמולת בחירות של ראש ממשלה שהפר כל הבטחה שאי פעם נתן ללהט"ב, ושהקואליציה שלו תיבנה על הומופובים? כי אותי אתם בטח לא מייצגים.
Former chief military prosecutor in the West Bank floating the conspiracy theory that "someone - possibly
@btselem
?" manufactured the arrest of young Palestinians children in order to badmouth Israel.
This guy was responsible for arresting hundreds of children from their beds.
Didn't you ask how the
@btselem
hack, Nawaja'ah just happened to at the scene of the event ready to film?
The shame here, is that someone - possibly Btselem? - actually sent kids to commit a crime just so that they could entrap unsuspecting journalists to spread lies about 🇮🇱!
According to this credible report, the army deliberately attacked the compound after the main bombing to ensure the targets aren't rescued. In other words, they attacked first respondents and rescue workers.
Until this week, about 250 people lived in Khirbet Zanutah in the South Hebron Hills – a community of 27 families, including about 100 minors. Not anymore. >
Israeli official tourist map as distributed at the airport. Israel has long ago erased the green line, yet accuses Palestinians of not accepting compromise.
Is it even necessary to say that Palestinians acting this way in front of soldiers will have been shot dead?
But under
#IsraeliApartheid
, Jews have a monopoly over the use of force in our region.
Anti-occupation activist Jonathan Pollak was just assaulted by two men in Tel Aviv. One pulled out a knife and inflicted shallow injuries to his face & arms. This was clearly politically motivated. My guess: result of far right group
@adkanorg
incitement campaign against Pollak.
@MiaFarrow
It does. As an Israeli I'm happy we have a universal healthcare system which enabled us to get many vaccinated so quickly. But it is shameful that our government ignores its obligations to Palestinians we have occupied for over 53 years. Thank you for making your voice heard.
Palestinian family violently thrown out of their home in the Old City of Jerusalem, so Jewish settlers can move in. This is fully supported by the state & based on an Israeli law from 1970, that lets Jews, but not Arabs, reclaim pre-1948 property. Video: Ir
@IrAmimAlerts
In May, Israel gave EU diplomats a dossier with allegations against Palestinian civil society, demanding they defund the groups.
Donors said the material was not convincing.
So Israel went ahead and declared these groups terror orgs on the basis of its draconian 2016 law.
first European country coming out publicly against Israeli decision to designate 6 Palestinian NGOs as terrorist; Israel insisted it had shared the info with donor states ahead of the move
The Israeli military set up a unit in which the Jewish KKK can officially terrorize Palestinians. This is insane beyond belief, but the army confirmed it.
Revealed: The IDF unit turning ‘hilltop youth’ settlers into soldiers
BREAKING: Israeli settlers just attacked the Palestinian herding community of Wadi Tiran, in the southern West Bank, KKK style. This is after 2 threatening visits yesterday. Israeli Police did nothing though residents reported specific individuals. This is the damage they caused.
Gaslighting by Israeli government apologists won't change reality.
#ShireenAbuAkleh
was targeted as part of a group of journalists by an Israeli soldier, who shot her in spite of no gunfire coming from the direction of the journalists, and then kept shooting at a helper.
Today marks World Press Freedom Day, and nearly a year since journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.
“This wasn’t errant gunfire – this was deliberate targeting” by Israeli forces, reporter
@sharifkouddous
tells me, and forms “part of a pattern of impunity.”
@RepBowman
Thank you for this statement. As an Israeli, I was relieved to get vaccinated. Palestinians living under my government's control must have access to the same level of heath care.
Agreed. The international 'bury our heads in the sand' approach as the Bibi-Smotrich-Ben Gvir government has systematically been implementing its catastrophic agenda, is partly to blame for this nightmare.
This is a colossal intelligence failure by Israel for sure. But it is also a massive political and moral failure by the US, EU and the rest of the int’l community who have been content to maintain the status quo as long as it was mostly Palestinian that paid the price.
I challenge anyone who still believes in "Shrinking the conflict", to watch this video of Israel demolishing a house between Hebron and Halhul.
How will de-developing the most populated urban block in the West Bank contribute to de-escalation?
Credit: Alliance for Human Rights
NGOs in Israel in a defiant show of solidarity with Palestinian civil society, under attack by our government.
We Israeli Jews must recognize & utilize our privileges under this apartheid system to stand by our Palestinian friends, colleagues and partners.
#StandWithThe6
Along with 46 other civil society organizations, we are proud to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues facing the draconian measures of the Israeli regime
There is currently a coordinated smear campaign against Palestinian human rights defender &
@btselem
volunteer Basil Adraa, conducted to gaslight last week's brutal settler attack in al-Mufaqara.
Basil posted his response on FB.
I'll update here.
#state_backed_settler_violence
@JGreenblattADL
@benandjerrys
Where exactly is the Palestinian state going to be under the two state solution if virtually all of area C (60% of the West Bank) is reserved for Israel settlements?
Seems to me that you are using the promise of a future 2ss as another tactic to shield Israel's current land grab.
These Jerusalem police officers who brutally assault a Palestinian youth they have arrested in al-‘Esawiyah for suspected stone throwing. know they are filmed.
But in Apartheid Israel, there is literally ZERO chance that any of them will be held accountable.
Residents are reporting that the Israeli forces demolished everything in the community. Temperatures in the area are expected to reach 39 today.
The cruelty is sickening.
This morning Israeli civil administration forces demolished structures in Khirbet Humsah in the north of the Jordan Valley. In the past year, Israel has demolished homes in this community several times in order to force its residents to leave. Video by Abu al-Kabash family
The Palestinians residents of
#Silwan
are under concerted attack by all branches of Israel's central and local government, together with settler associations. This home was demolished this morning in Al-Bustan, an entire neighborhood facing piecemeal wipeout.
One of the most effective ways the Israeli authorities have to inflict severe economic damage on some of the poorest rural communities in the West Bank.
The Israeli authorities demolishing a Palestinian home, built illegally because the law of Israeli apartheid denies Palestinians building permits. Ten people lost their home and presumably their savings. Disgraceful and racist policy.
היום בקילקיס, דרומית לחברון, הצבא מוטט בית של משפחה בת עשר נפשות. בנו על אדמתם הפרטית, אבל אין היתרי בנייה לפלסטינים מהצבא בשטחי C. מדיניות אכזרית. קולוניאלית. בסרטון, שצילם איתי פייטלסון, אישה מבוגרת רצה אל המנוף שמחריב את ביתה.
UPDATE: the children are released. The older ones (aged 12-13) will be interrogate on Sunday. The army is accusing them of trying to steal parrots from the Havat Maon outpost.
Important to stress that children under 12 can't be arrested under any circumstances.
All the horrors seen in this piece were predicted months ago by the humanitarian community. Yet the west did not force Israel to stop starving children in Gaza.
“Death is better than this.”
Shocking images of starving, emaciated children from inside Gaza are laying bare the desperation inside the strip, as
@nadaabashir
reports.
Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word.
This morning, Palestinian farmers in Qaryut, Nablus District, discovered settlers felled 12 ancient olive trees. The nearest settlement in the area is Eli and its outposts. The olive harvest season officially opens in 10 days.
עונת המסיק בפתח ועימה עונת טרור כריתות עצי הזית. היום בבוקר חקלאי הכפר קריות, התעוררו כדי לגלות שמתנחלים כרתו להם 12 עצים רבי שנים, ממערב לכפר. ההתנחלות הסמוכה למקום היא ההתנחלות "עלי", על שלל מאחזיה, פגעיה ופסיכופתיה. הסיכוי ש
@IL_police
תטרח לחפש את הפושעים שואף לאפס המוחלט.
Jewish supremacist terrorists caught in action, setting fire to a Palestinian olive grove, by a
@YeshDin
researcher.
This is systematic and state backed.
נתפסו על חם במצלמת תחקירן יש דין: מתנחלים מציתים עצי זית באדמות בורין. מתנחלים שוב ירדו הערב מצריף חדש מזרחית מיצהר בכדי להצית עצי זית של אנשי בורין. זה התיעוד השני של הצתות כאלה באותו אזור רק השבוע
@Yesh_Din
This odd notion that the issue isn't our conduct, perpetual occupation land theft, tens of thousands of fatalities in Gaza, it's just that we somehow don't explain ourselves well, is shared by many Israelis.
Israel needs an elite unit of spokespeople in every language, in every time zone. Its public diplomacy efforts are long overdue a major overhaul.
@Jerusalem_Post
write-up of the vision I laid out in a speech at a
@BnaiBrith
ceremony yesterday:
1. Jewish settlers are conducting vigilante attacks against the Palestinian population of the Northern West Bank. Yesterday they shut down Huwara. This morning, armed with military weapons, blocked all exits of Nablus. As usual, the excuse is Palestinian armed attacks.
שר האוצר בצלאל סמוטריץ' בכנס לזכרו של ז'ק קופפר בפריז: "אין דבר כזה עם פלסטיני, אין היסטוריה פלסטינית, אין שפה פלסטינית, לא היה מלך או מטבע פלסטיני בהיסטוריה. אין"
@GLZRadio
Seven minutes before the killing were streamed live on TikTok. The video proves that the Israeli Military's claim that soldiers came under fire from the journalists' direction is a lie, and a coverup.
Watch it yourself:
Abu Akleh Family Response to Israel’s Statement on Shireen’s Killing
We could never expect any type of accountability or legitimate investigation from the very entity responsible for gunning down an unarmed and clearly identifiable journalist.
There are tools available to deal with this: the ICC could issue arrest warrants, the ICJ could use this to conclude its deliberations on the advisory opinion on Israel's occupation. The US and EU could impose targeted sanctions against Smotrich and co.
Israel's forcible transfer of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta has begun, except unlike 1999, it's not being done with trucks.
This time the army is making lives unbearable through isolation, harassment, live fire "training", confiscations & extortionate fines.
#SaveMasaferYatta
The whole world needs to watch what I just saw: Israelis preventing a group of 10-year-olds, on their way to school with teachers, from entering their OWN VILLAGE because occupying army made it a "firing zone". All families face ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta for this reason.
Each day that goes by with Israel continuing to enjoy all the benefits of our association with the European Union, without maintaining the essential conditions of democracy and human rights, clarifies that Europe's stated foreign policy is merely lip service.
@EUpalestinians
BREAKING: Just hours ago, Israeli forces began destroying the Palestinian Karama family's home in occupied Jerusalem. More ethnic cleansing in real time.
The Israeli military will provide settlers throughout the West Bank around 1000 M16 rifles (presumably actually US Made M4).
A fear that these weapons find their way to the hands of Jewish supremacist vigilantes, who are under even less control than soldiers.
אחרי דרישות חוזרות ונשנות של תושבים: כ1000 נשקי m16 יסופקו לאזרחים ביהודה ושומרון. הנשקים יסופקו לבוגרי צבא שיעמדו בקריטריונים. המספר הסופי ופיזור הנשקים עדיין לא נקבע
The fact that a homophobic Islamic party seems to have saved Israel's LGBT community from Netanyahu's preferred coalition, which would have been dominated by Jewish Homophobes and misogynists, is one of those bizarre ironies of Israeli politics.
This guy who doesn't even try to hide his hatred of Palestinians, commanded the entire military prosecution apparatus in the West Bank Mar 2013 - Nov 2016, including prosecuting hundreds of Palestinian children arrested (many from their beds at night) and jailed.
@LizaRosen0000
Oh... Suddenly the dog
@RashidaTlaib
gives a damn about her grandmother?
Didn't she forego a chance to visit her grandmother, because she refused to commit to not attacking 🇮🇱 while being a guest in our country?
I won't forget sitting in a tent above a cave in 2013 and hearing Fatma's story about escaping from the soldiers in 1999 and hiding outside during the day, to avoid expulsion from her home.
In Masafer Yatta, Palestinians brace for a second explusion
Look at this video of Israeli soldiers within a mob of settlers attacking Palestinian homes.
The soldiers are shooting teargas at Palestinians.
Can anyone honestly see this and not conclude that the soldiers are participating in the attack?
No one knows what Israel plans for Masafer Yatta, but it might be a slow, incremental displacement, rather than a large single action. This has already started on the ground:
In the firing zone: evictions begin in West Bank villages after court ruling
@IsraelMFA
@btselem
This statement is disingenuous and Feigns innocence. You tweeted a video and added subtitles to enhance your claim that this shooter hit someone (Shireen). So you locate the killing of Shireen in a specific point in space and time, but this is not the actual location.
Happening right now: the Israeli Civil Administration just confiscated five tents and animal shelters from the Wadi al-Ahmar community, in the central Jordan Valley. I am in the field documenting, will post additional material soon.
Harun abu-'Aram was shot for resisting the confiscation of a generator, during a routine military operation against "illegal construction", part of Israel's policy of suffocating Palestinian development, through permit denial & demolitions. My op-ed:
Note that several mid-rank officers are involved in this operation, including a Major and a Captain, as well as some lower ranks like first lieutenant. This arrest was ordered from above, not some renegade solider stuff.
@noatishby
אני רואה שההסברה הישראלית התקדמה מ:
1. פלסטינים הרגו אותה ל:
2. בעצם אף פעם לא נדע מי הרג אותה ל:
3. וואט אבאוט סוריה ועיראק?
והכול עם תליון ארץ ישראל השלמה שממחיש בדיוק שלעולם לא נוותר על שליטה בפלסטינים.
בושה.
The Israeli government just clarified that it supports the continued transfer of Palestinians from East Jerusalem.
This policy will not change unless Israeli decision makers face consequences.
When Palestinians describe settler-soldier militias that terrorize them and destroy their property, we should listen.
Watch this video: the army safeguarding a settler arson attack.
On Monday afternoon, dozens of settlers escorted by soldiers set fire to Palestinian olive groves in the Surif area. The settlers threw stones at Palestinians who had gathered in the area, and the latter threw stones back. >