Israeli military not a professional army; its ground incursions look like Daesh attacks
"...Zionist soldiers have filmed themselves humiliating, beating, and posing with Palestinian civilians they have kidnapped...stealing property, smashing stores and homes...in addition to randomly blowing up buildings for fun"
"...why would soldiers on the ground care about the laws of war? They clearly see that no law applies to them."
@GottaLaff Well that is some good news. Hopefully the #IOF won't ambush the civilians attempting to access the air drops with tank fire. #FlourMassacre
#Israel / High Court is hearing petitions challenging the military exemption for ultra-Orthodox #yeshiva students
This is a contentious issue that has sparked mass protests outside the court in Jerusalem. The "Movement for Quality Government", joined by "Brothers and Sisters in Arms" and 240 citizens, petitioned the court, arguing that Defense Minister Yoav #Gallant is illegally exempting tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox youths from military service, defying the law and court rulings. Last week, the state told the High Court of Justice that unless a military draft bill is advanced by April 1, ultra-Orthodox men will be conscripted to the army.
A reminder of the potential consequences of integrating settlers and ultra-Orthodox into the #IDF/#IOF:
[...] The Netzah Yehuda battalion was originally set up to allow ultra-Orthodox Israelis to serve in the military. But over the years, the unit has attracted not only some of the most religious soldiers, but also a growing number of far-right extremists, including many settlers. Unlike other units, enlistment in Netzah Yehuda is voluntary; until recently, it was deployed exclusively in the West Bank, where its members were in daily contact with Palestinians living under occupation. As such, the unit — whose name is an acronym for “Haredi Military Youth” — was known for getting “a lot of action,” the former member said.
[...] The harassment and dehumanization of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation are a daily affair, and Netzah Yehuda soldiers are hardly the only culprits. But on some occasions, the unit’s actions in the West Bank escalated into gross human rights violations and potential war crimes. Since 2015, members of the unit have killed several Palestinians and beaten and tortured others with electric shocks, according to documentation submitted by DAWN to the ICC, which in 2021 opened an investigation into alleged crimes committed in the occupied territories.
Algeria's UN draft resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Palestine was vetoed by United States during UN Security Council's 9552nd meeting on 20 February 2024....
@AndrewR1234
The "we massacred 25+ thousands of people because #Hamas hides beneath them" is also false. The #IOF has destroyed more than 70% of all residences of #Gaza, as well as all hospitals. It's just mathematically impossible for a tiny fraction of the population to be hidden in the majority of the territory.
You're justifying #genocide , which makes you complicit in it.
2/2 @palestine
Osaid:
Dr Jamal Naim, one of the pillars of dentistry in Gaza survived an airstrike by the #IOF while asleep at his house but his daughter [actually two daughters] and 9-mo old granddaughter did not! He holds her and says: “What did she do to get killed?” 💔 @palestine
An investigation by zionist media found that the three settler prisoners killed by the #IOF yesterday waved white flags while approaching the IOF, emerging from a building with "Rescue 3 hostages SOS" was written on it. The IOF opened fire on two of them, and then shot the third after he said, "Save us" in Hebrew. This is just what the zionist media has allowed to be published.
These are just three of over 60 prisoners held in #Gaza that have been killed by the IOF, and the zionist entity shows no interest in receiving their bodies even when offered by the resistance.
@shaman007@PalestineNews@palestine
How much of what the #IOF told us about 10/7 is true? 40 babies beheaded for example. An israhelli house shot up by Hamas was done by the #IOF according to a survivor. People at the music festival shoot up by an israhelli helicopter. All factual according to israhelli witnesses.
[ID: instagram post from @.GazaMedicVoices. Text over the gridded numbered map of Gaza released by the IOF reads: “We are no longer in Rafah, we are in ‘block XX.’ The reality is uglier than anyone can imagine because what is happening to us has never happened before.” - Surgeon displaced to south of Gaza, 1/12/23. The post caption reads: Israel has started using a numbered grid system for evacuation warnings, accessed via a QR code on leaflets dropped from the sky and via social media. This has led to terror and confusion as people struggle to find refuge from the heavy bombardment. /end ID]
These “evacuation zones” are extermination zones. The IOF has 0 intention of letting anyone move freely in #Gaza. They shoot #people who try to move to the places they’re told to evacuate to, and many people can’t move at all because everything around them is under constant bombardment. Most #Gazans don’t have internet to view these “evacuation notices” in the first place, because the #IOF bombed Gaza’s communications infrastructure. This map is another weak attempt to convince the #world that they’re trying to “minimize casualties,” but like most #Zionist#propaganda, it’s just more evidence of their atrocities. They have literally divided Gaza into death chambers.
#Zionists are so obsessed with painting brown men as these barbaric predatory beasts and won't grasp the fact that the #Hamas fighter in question is a woman who is leading the child to a red cross van
when #Palestinians protest peacefully against the occupation, they are shot at and murdered [Great March of Return 2018-2019 peaceful protests, 223 Palestinians killed, 46 of them were children]. when Palestinians launch a peaceful #Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, it is criminalised [link, link]. when #journalists are at work, they are murdered in cold blood, and their pallbearers can't even mourn and pay respects without being brutally attacked by the #IOF. #Israel's problem isn't with Palestinians being violent, it's with Palestinians existing, period.
So let me get this straight, the people who trained to kill people are upset that the people they set out to kill managed to kill some of them? That right?
Algeria's UN draft resolution on "the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question", S/2024/173 (20 February 2024) (documents.un.org)
Algeria's UN draft resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Palestine was vetoed by United States during UN Security Council's 9552nd meeting on 20 February 2024....