The IDF portrays itself as a 'moral army' that takes extreme measures to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza. @yuval_abraham spoke to a number of former soldiers from the Intelligence Corps who exposed horrific practices that shook me to my core. Here's a thread:

The soldiers described how following an Israeli shelling, they are asked to monitor the phone conversations of family members in order to hear the moment in which they tell each other that their loved one has died — that’s how they check who was killed.

One interviewee described how some of these conversations are used to teach soldiers Arabic. “The commanders presented a call from a mother whose husband told her on the phone that their child had been killed. She started screaming and crying."

Israel is constantly amassing collaborators in Gaza. “Today we control everything that goes in and out, whether physically, electronically, or in terms of people. People in Gaza beg to be able to study abroad or visit relatives. This can be used to turn them into collaborators.”

Intelligence gathering doesn’t focus solely on political leadership. It trickles down to average people. “There is no such thing as privacy. You know everything about the person. What they like, what they have photographed, whether they have a lover, their sexual orientation."

This is how Israel controls Gaza. It has mastered the art of long-distance killing and blackmailing people into collaboration. It has put the occupation out of sight and mind of Israelis who neither know nor care what it takes to besiege millions of people.

Read @yuval_abraham 's piece here, and then send it to every single person you know who still buys into this violent lie:

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham Do they allocate the dead babies per unit or a third each to infantry, air and navy? Do you get to kill bonus babies if you have an exemplary service record? You should be ashamed to tweet this shit but I guess retweets from Nazis are too hard to resist.

@AlexRyvchin @yuval_abraham I know you don’t like to read this — it’s awful and difficult to take in. But this is what a number of former Israeli soldiers from the IDF Intelligence Corps told us in a series of interviews.

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham What a shocker. Who would've thought IDF would practice what EVERY MILITARY IN THE WORLD does when it comes to collateral damage.

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham These criminals @IsraeliPM must be tried by international courts. Israel must be sanctioned as any state that commits crimes against humanity is sanctioned. The United States must no longer support such crimes. @POTUS

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham Wow you broke this story of how the IDF is like other armies, and actually does a much better job of tracking collateral damage than all other armies, wide open!

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham Aww! look at that dear intl community!? Ugh! if how utter heinously!? Ye Gospel Truth Ye World Of My Dream

@edokonrad @KeithyWalsh @yuval_abraham Horrendous 😡😡

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham What I perceived from atrocities committed from one group to another is how a malaise sets in. The perpetrators themselves become corrupted and lose their moral compass. What they inflict on their victims, they will also without remorse inflict upon themselves & their fellow

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham Nice blood libel.

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham It’s in the Hamas charter why are you complaining???

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham You are a bloody lier. You conveniently fall to point out that Hamas & PIJ dig tunnels under residential areas & fire missiles from there like these.

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham Before Hamas and Islamic Jihad fire missiles at Israel, it knows that all of them are aimed at civilians.

@edokonrad @yuval_abraham “An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel’s boundary with Gaza shoot at children,they are doing so deliberately,under clear & specific orders.