For anyone interested in the ongoing legality of what's occurring in Gaza relating to the Laws of armed conflict & the protection of civilians
@shashj
has compiled some incredibly concise resources & overviews of the current situation. This thread is invaluable.
👏
I want to list a few informed sources below. These are useful whether you agree with their conclusions or not. On the protection of civilians in urban warfare, including the obligations on armies and the issue of evacuation, see:
Ultranationalist Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir defends the spitting and assaulting of Christians in
#Jerusalem
by Jewish fanatics as an ancient
#Jewish
tradition that must remain in place!
This is utter insanity.
Zionist campaigners literally paid for billboards to drive around outside U Penn. If anyone wants an idea of the coordinated hysteria that a Palestinian literature & cultural festival with a treasure hunt for children & poetry readings can trigger.
😂🤦♂️
Zionists think these kind of violent, inciting, racist billboards & the well-funded campaigns against the
@PalestineWrites
festival will scare us. After 75 yrs of Zionism's brutal violence, still they have no understanding we will never be silenced or stop fighting for justice.
@Raphael83736
@amerxmirza
@bbcquestiontime
Raphael you're kind of ignoring some important context - 1660 to 1834 Jewish & Arab citizens lived relatively peacefully in Palestine for 174 years together under Ottoman rule, this only changed after Western political Zionism (Herzl 1897) & Arab nationalism (Arab revolt 1916).
@JakeWSimons
the most honest broker for peace & a two State solution was Yitzhak Rabin & an Israeli nationalist assassinated him before he ever had a chance to realise it.
"The Godly thing to do is to kill you. That’s what the Torah says."
A circulating video shows a Jewish coloniser engaging in hate speech towards a group of Americans detained by Israeli forces for unknown reasons.
@EinatWilf
@DogHerny
You mean grant Palestinian refugees the same right of return immigration laws as Jewish citizens which would be entirely fair & democratic.
@mishtal
Why doesn't Israel temporarily open its border & set up a buffer zone for displaced refugees David ! it would allow them to monitor & process Palestinians against the register it maintains. But also the situation is Israels doing & responsibility.
@jamiesusskind
Jamie how do you know this if you aren't actually going. You should attend & speak to some of the people on the ground, you'll either be right or wrong based on your prerogative ! I'm sure you'll find many who go for different reasons & some bad actors but be realistic.
@AaronBastani
This has been doing the rounds today, the episode was filmed in March, the jacket in question isn't in Palestinian colours & the Octopus was an innocent mascot. This is the issue when when people jump to conclusions because of the political climate.
@GoldsteinBrooke
Brooke seriously. Why ? I mean what drives you on a day of remembrance to turn it into a moment to drag Palestinians. Is there a need for it ? to vilify a group of people with footage from 22 years ago. That's hatred, what you've posted is literally an example of your own hatred.
Oops ! Caroline Gennez accidentally said the quiet part out loud & stated the truth, obviously the Israeli Government need to rebuke Belgium for this ! 🤦♂️
Israel has summoned the Belgium envoy to Tel Aviv following remarks by the Development Cooperation Minister Caroline Gennez minister that whole Palestinian villages being "wiped off the map".
If you haven't listened to
@DalrympleWill
&
@tweeter_anita
's Empire Podcast you definitely should, perfect Sunday afternoon listening. Incredible story & insights into one of the most important periods of exploration history. Wonderful. 💫
🚨 New episode 🚨
Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica
As the timber creaked under the Antarctic ice, Shackleton knew his voyage was doomed. What the ice gets, the ice keeps. And so followed one of the most obscenely daring and heroic rescue attempts. But did he succeed?
@mysteriouskat
Katherine this is wrong on a number of levels. Palestinians at the time didn't start the War, there was conflict between Palestinian militias & the Haganah groups, Irgun, Lehi & the Stern Gang ! Palestinian villages began to be cleared by these militias in Nov/Dec 1947
@JakeWSimons
Jake this is one of the most lopsided subjective takes on that history I've read. You fail to mention why Palestine rejected the UN Partition plan on the basis of it being an uneven distribution of agricultural land & resources to suit the population demographics at the time.
Bella Hadid posts once on Palestine after measuring her words & makes one of the most profound statements on the conflict & Palestinian identity.
(She also ratiod Gal Gadot which reiterates that Palestine is increasingly becoming a counter cultural moment).
@CptAllenHistory
This was fair Allen. One question I've been trying to find the answer to, do you know what the time limitation is on viable intel that the IDF uses to make these decisions, I know this is based on individual military assessments & different nations use different ROE !
Rania hits the nail on the head here.
What option does this child have or a child who witnesses the death of their Mother, Father, Sister, friends or relatives in Israel military raids. Palestine has no army, security or legal defence against this & these children will grow up.
This is a Government account.
This person is a Blogger - if you're mocking someone for donating blood, looking after a child (who has by the text 'Foster Father' possibly lost her parents & family) & is literally blogging his own experiences in a war zone ! Jesus Christ.
This “Hamas crisis actor” has become notorious for miraculously appearing in multiple Hamas propaganda videos in different roles and locations across the Gaza Strip.
Individuals across social media are calling Saleh “the man with more lives than a cat”.
Why frame it as anti-Israel ? being pro-Palestinian doesn't automatically define someone as being anti-Israel. This is one of the main issues with these accounts & their narrative framing of one side or the other. Palestinians are dying in their thousands - it's a human issue.
@habibahamid
@SameeraKhan
Habiba that's the point. I think he's highlighting how easy it is to literally manipulate posts to present something that isn't accurate.
@RealSarahIdan
But what about the rampant Islamophobia & conflation of all Arabic identity as representing terrorism or hatred that occurs everyday in the defence of Zionism ! surely you should be fighting back against that also & calling it out when you see it !
@OmarBaddar
For God sake. I think a lot of people forget that Iran has close to a million troops not even including its proxies, Hezbollah, Basij, police & security services ! if it escalates the Middle East is going to be chaos.
@JakeWSimons
Jake make up your mind ! is it the hard left who are against Israel or is it the far-right ! do you ever stop to think that maybe if so many people are critical of Israeli policies or its behaviour there might actually be some merit to those criticisms !
@NTarnopolsky
@BILD
Noga seriously has this been stated by anyone - Herzog literally held up an auto-biography the other day & said it was a chemical weapons manufacturing manual. It's been reported as a skull fragment ! Herzog isn't the most reliable with his rhetoric at the moment.
@DrewPavlou
@Charlie533080
If we're judging the IDF by the standards of Hamas though Drew something is decidedly wrong. Israel should be held to higher standards precisely because they've set those standards for themselves. If the defence is "but Hamas did it" - Israel has lost its way.
@YosephHaddad
Yoseph, David Ben-Gurion (Israeli Prime Minister) & Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (longest serving President of Israel & a preeminent historian in his own right) literally wrote books about Palestinians being descendants of the indigenous population.
@jamiesusskind
Me too & I've seen different perspectives, many people just calling for a ceasefire & common sense, release of the hostages & equal rights & a Palestinian State.
@Ostrov_A
@washingtonpost
Not all of those "killed during fighting were all combatants", this is false. Jawad Naira was unarmed & running away when he was shot in the neck & killed & thus far I haven't seen any affiliation with any "terrorist" network.
Israel’s ‘targeted’ operation!
Did anyone bother to ask ISR for any proof of its claims before giving it their blessing to wreak havoc in a densely populated refugee camp?
The travesty is that the Int’l community is content with merely a label by ISR to justify its massacres!
@James1872_
@Partisangirl
James in 1948 Palestinians were asked to their leave their homes, whilst they were away Israel passed two laws the Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No.29 which was retroactively dated from its writing in September '48 to be in effect from May '1948.
@CptAllenHistory
Yes, I've seen them, it was an admirable act. Specifically regarding the failures on 7/10 I think it's pertinent to ask about the reliability in regards to the on the ground intel that the IDF uses to assess or prioritise targets.
@YosephHaddad
all over the World normal Countries have an internationally recognised military to protect them. Children in Palestine grow up in a war zone, lose loved ones & have their homes raided by a foreign military. And for context - in the UK we have Cadet camps.
@academic_la
Shaiel seriously what polls are you actually reading !? Israel is losing the PR war badly. They've literally had to delete multiple social media posts & the vast majority of the public in most Nations are calling for a ceasefire. You only have to look at the marches taking place.
@YosephHaddad
I don't think anybody is seriously asking for Israel to disappear Yoseph, but Israel needs to reform itself into a fairer society, grant Palestinians the same Right of Return to their homeland it grants to all Jewish citizens & divide the land fairly between both populations.
Seriously someone responsible needs to take the phones from
@IDF
troops now. These bloody idiots do more damage for their cause then any Iranian propaganda ever could. CO's should of reigned this kind of thing in at the start. Immoral, irresponsible & damaging to their side.
@Ostrov_A
A majority population is fine, but singular ethno-religous States with particular laws where you have to submit to that ethno-religious identity is fundamentally at odds with the idea of democracy which is the reason M/E Countries such as Iraq, Syria aren't defined as such !
Tbf Zionists are doing a really great job of promoting the Palestinian Writes festival. If you want free publicity for your event just book Roger Waters. aside from the "anti-semitism" they're also having a Treasure Hunt, Kids Craft Stations & Poetry. 😂
In a moment when antisemitism has reached an indisputably historic level, it's mind-boggling to think that
@Penn
is hosting this gathering of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activists, some of whom have a long history of antisemitic statements and comments.
One of the main issues I'm seeing with the ADL drama is some commentators claiming
@elonmusk
is trying to destroy the ADL. As with Israel the ADL operates without a required transparency that many large corporations or States should be the subject of. It's a matter of reform.
@AdinHaykin1
@muhammadshehad2
Adin, David Ben-Gurion & Yitzhak Ben-Zvi the longest serving President of Israel & a pre-eminent historian in his own right who spend decades of his life researching Jewish history & identity were "obviously wrong in their assumptions" !?
@NTarnopolsky
They found a fragment of her skull matched via DNA that a forensic pathologist said she would be unable to survive without. This could of resulted from being shot. People are misreading the statement to conclude something else.
@James1872_
@Partisangirl
And the 'Absentees Property Law' of 1950 which retroactively excused the seizure of abandoned land and property from those who were displaced !! as a result Palestinians were never allowed to return to those homes or land & there were 7-800,000 refugees in other Countries.
@AdinHaykin1
@muhammadshehad2
He held the same view as David Ben-Gurion & Yitzhak Ben-Zvi before it undermined political Zionism that Palestinians were the descendants of the native population. 👍
If you want a realistic depiction of what Gaza & Palestinian citizens are really like outside of the Zionist perception/propaganda that all Palestinians are "terrorists" like Hamas or represented by Abbas
@Imshin
is a great account to follow !👍
@YosephHaddad
Yoseph why would the Palestinians need a State of their own or anything that you've mentioned, they inhabited the entire region of Palestine, Jews, Arabs & other denominations were all considered Palestinians after the Palestinian Citizenship Order of 1925.
Again these were the kind of acts that an Israeli State was built on in '48 & we have not answered this for 70 years. The records of the '48 war should of been unsealed to an International community decades ago & those who committed these atrocities should of been held to account
ISRAELI SOLDIER LAUGHS ABOUT RAPING A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL
Israeli soldier laughingly describes how a 16 year old girl was raped and Palestinians were executed by gathering them in cages and opening fire with an automatic machine gun in Tantura village during the Nakba in 1948.
@EylonALevy
You realise how many of them are in hospital beds, are literally missing limbs, have broken bones, are on ventilators, not to mention the number of elderly, those still trapped under what remains of their homes. Eylon there are many literal reasons people cannot leave Gaza City.
If anyone is in any doubt this is why
@ForensicArchi
/
@weizman_eyal
set themselves apart from the online OSINT community who came out with multiple analysis hours after the event
they're also one of the reasons Shireen Abu Akleh will never be forgotten.
Preliminary analysis by FA,
@alhaq_org
&
@earshot_ngo
into the
#AlAhli
hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.
They are plates drawn by children.
This is an insane thing to be wasting your time with &
highlights the pathetic pettiness of the
Israeli regime in general.
Sensitivities severely hurt by plates drawn by
vulnerable children.
🤦♂️
Patients have complained to
@UKLFI
about a display in
@ChelwestFT
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital which regards “Palestine” as covering the entirety of Israel and displays the Temple Mount with a huge Palestinian Flag.
@AdinHaykin1
@muhammadshehad2
That's some ego you've got there my friend. What you're referring to existed between Arabs & Jews prior from 1660 to 1929 though or at least from 1660 to 1834 ! unless you can find me a significant pogrom between the Jewish/Arab populous prior to Hebron in 1929.
@EliLipshitz
@MonaAbuamara
Eli what specific "terrorist" attack did any of those killed or wounded by the IDF in Jenin perpetrate against any Israeli civilians in Israel !?
@scribblercat
Replies to this trying to claim this child was a "terrorist" based on a photograph of him holding a rifle & a flag he was wrapped in at his funeral when he was clearly unarmed & not a combatant in the CCTV footage highlights why Pro-Israel propagandists are the worst.
Jesus Christ Jake. I know emotions are high but I walked through this on my way home from the office & it was a peaceful protest, many Muslims were obviously upset at what unfolded in Gaza & there were a lot of children & families amongst them. There was a pro-Israel rally also.
The self-serving stupidity of tweets like this. She is vacationing in what she sees as her ancestral homeland or Palestine ! the fact that every Zionist account has leapt on the same post proclaiming 'how dare she visit our land' to try & discredit her is comedy.
@NerdeenKiswani
@LePlonge
@AaronBastani
It's disgraceful & grossly irresponsible Clifford, I don't know why Melika Gorgianeh who is an Astrophysics student at Oxford was specifically singled out when there were four members of the team ?! these figures should know better.
@JakeWSimons
Jake this is ridiculous, the Southern Lebanon & Northern Israel regions are evacuated - by your logic Hezbollah currently has one of the finest records for civilian casualties in a conflict alongside Israel & they're a legally recognised terrorist organisation.
@akh1e
I like the way ardent Zionists always refer to the Palestine football team, Palestine Symphony orchestra or Palestine airways which were all European cultural phenomena that were transplanted to the region during the mandate. None of these were culturally indigenous to the M/E.🤦♂️
@HeidiBachram
Heidi are these posts a joke. 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza inc. thousands of children & you're sat there complaining that people can't go & buy socks from M&S for Christmas. You should probably ask someone to buy you some self awareness for Christmas.
@DominicFarrell
@Charlie533080
Hezbollah aren't Hamas or the five Arab armies of '48 though Dominic, they've got an arsenal that surpasses most European countries & they've been taking out Israels aerial & border monitoring posts since October. Israel would need the US.
@denvercunning
Bryan before you embarrass yourself, it's a training video by Janazeh management course teaching muslim funeral rights which was filmed in Malaysia.
I previously suspected this video was fake due to the Instagram account that posted it had several fake videos already debunked.
After a couple of hours, the original video was found: It depicts a Janazeh management course (Teaches Muslims how to perform a funeral per Islamic
@aurelsari
Aurel the use of phosphorus bombs near populated areas or civilians is still a war crime, humanitarian law requires military attacks to be selective & carefully considered especially the use of White phosphorus as an incendiary or for illumination.
"Singapore" of the Middle East ! is doing the rounds evidently. 7-800,000 Palestinians were evicted from their land in 1948, they have never had an organised military to defend themselves or objective means of seeking justice for the last 75 years -
Gaza is 25 miles by 7 miles.
@James1872_
@Partisangirl
The point being Israel should be providing Arab States with guarantees that this history won't repeat itself & that should Palestinians be displaced they will be guaranteed a Right of Return to Gaza to avoid another humanitarian catastrophe for another 75 years.
@Ostrov_A
For someone who loves Israel you seem to spend ALOT of time insulting some of its most experienced, prominent & intelligent supporters. First Amiram Levin who defended Israeli citizens for decades now Professor Yehuda Bauer someone who has spent their life fighting anti-semitism.
@mysteriouskat
Jesus, I'm sorry Katherine. Anyone who has heard you speak on this issue knows you're a good person. I might not agree with everything you say but I know your hearts in the right place.
Thank you
@imshin
. Palestinians like everyone else get married & enjoy deserts. Contrary to what Ben-Gvir & Smotrich would have you believe no Israelis were sacrificed at the wedding & no rockets were fired into Israel in celebration of their union !!
#NormalisingPalestiniansFTW
@NogaArbell
this is from Syria & was covered by the BBC in 2021, the girl & the rescue wasn't fake but she was handed to three different rescuers & eventually a White Helmet official after a bombing. It's certainly not from Gaza but still check your sources.
@GoldsteinBrooke
"Legally speaking" ! are you referring to Israeli legal standards or international legal standard because those are two very different legal bars.
The specific legality of using White phosphorus in an armed conflict is contextual, as an incendiary re.Protocol III of the Convention on the Prohibition of use of certain Conventional Weapons WP cannot be used in heavily civilian populated areas - it can be used in open areas >
It seems Israel is using white phosphorus munitions this evening in South Lebanon
The use of these ferocious chemical weapons against civilian targets is banned under international law
Another war crime to add to the file
@IntlCrimCourt
@amnesty
@UNHumanright
@ipsc48
@denvercunning
@IDF
Give me a break Bryan. They've bombed the Rafah border crossing multiple times & Khan Younis & haven't explained or justified why it was necessary.
Coming out & admitting a mistake once after they've dropped six thousand+ bombs isn't worth a pat on the back for good behaviour.
@RachelRileyRR
This is disgusting Rachel.
They should probably learn how to spell 'Palestine', it highlights it wasn't done by someone who is educated on the reality or the issue ! this type of action does nothing but divide further & create more hatred. 🤮
With all due respect to John we don't know this. There is little transparency at the moment to what the IDF targeting process or the accuracy of intelligence at this time. If Israels intelligence over the last week is evident of anything it's that there may be gaps at the moment.
@BillAckman
@RobertKennedyJr
He hasn't adjusted it for historical inflation Bill - he's comparing aid to Europe post the Marshall Plan in 1947 to what has been provided to Palestinians per capita in the present day.
@CptAllenHistory
I appreciate this sentiment Cpt. I think we all want the hostages released & Hamas to be dissolved. Thank you for your clarity on proportionality as well, it's not an easy subject to write about with the clarity & eloquence you have !
Ahmed raises one of the most pressing issues here, by historically disempowering Palestinian citizens of Gaza in the name of security Isr also inadvertently created the conditions that enabled Hamas to control the Gaza population both through fear & an inability to resist -
🧵Most people despise the regimes in Syria, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Eritrea, or Belarus. But that doesn't mean it's ever okay to starve or dehumanize the people living under those governments. Similarly, Gazans live under conditions they can't change or control.
Someone should explain to Natasha that Hamas rockets aren't reliant on the Gaza electricity grid & that words are not congruent with actions, the IDF may say one thing but the literal reality is that it has bombed the Rafah border & restricted aid from entering Gaza.
BBC had an international lawyer & expert on laws of war Natasha Hausdorff on air to explain Israel's obligations but then kept interrupting her with failed nonsensical rebuttals when the "I'm not a lawyer but..." journalist didn't like the legal answers.