Salah al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of Hamas’s political bureau & the commander of the terror group’s military wing in the West Bank, was assassinated in a drone attack in Beirut, acc to the Lebanese press & Hamas.
Arouri is the most senior Hamas leader that was killed since the #Oct7 attack. The assassination which took place in the heart of Beirut very close to Hezbollah’s HQs could push the Lebanese militia to escalate its attacks agst. IL. -Barak Ravid, Axios
"The 23-year-old has been charged with 'attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization,' which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison."
@notwithstanding Israelis need to be protected from their own army
"Several victims have already decided to publicly comment that the Israeli army fired at them out of control. A police investigation also confirmed that many of the October 7 victims were killed by the IDF"...
The #BBC and others in the Western news media keep revisiting #Hamas crimes on #oct7 but fail to report on evidence that #Israel killed its own citizens.
"A growing body of evidence suggesting a far more complex reality, one that paints Israel’s own actions in a far more troubling light, is being ignored or suppressed. This deeply dishonest approach from the western media indicates that they are not, as they declare, fearlessly pursuing the truth."
Agrarian #Jewish#socialists living in kibbutzim, many of whom for decades lived alongside #Gazans and were among the most active peace activists in #Israel were hit first and hardest on Oct 7th.
Israeli soldiers fighting in the #Shejaiya neighborhood east of #Gaza City mistakenly shot dead 3 #hostages captured in the #Hamas-led attack on #Israel on #Oct7, the #IDF said in a statement Friday.
#IDF troops took the #hostages for a threat & fired at them, the statement said. Later, “a suspicion arose over the identities of the deceased,” so the bodies were transferred to Israel, where they were confirmed to be Yotam Haim of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Samer Talalka of Kibbutz Nir Am & a third hostage whose family requested that he not be identified.
IL's MIL has repeatedly attacked the US-backed Lebanese army to the N over the past 2 months, prompting alarm in the Biden admin & sharp rebukes from top US officials to IL's leadership -struck Lebanese Armed Forces positions >34X since #OCt7.
The Biden admin has told IL -the strikes are unacceptable -believe some of those strikes have been accidental -the intention of other strikes has been less clear-.
~½ of the munitions #Israel has used in #Gaza since its #war on #Hamas began have been unguided bombs, a US intelligence assessment has found, a ratio that some arms experts say helps explain the conflict’s enormous #civilian death toll.
The #IDF has fired >29k air-to-ground munitions into Gaza since #Oct7, & only 55-60% of them have been precision-guided, acc/to a new assessment from the #ODNI. The rest were what are known as “#DumbBombs”
The bombing & torment of the people of #Gaza by #Netanyahu is evil & wrong.
So was this.That should not be forgotten--as Netanyahu seems to have forgotten both the hostages and their families, & cares more about revenge first than saving them.
This whole war has been about evil people killing innocents, whichever side you look at, without anyone even trying to save those innocents.
And confusing as it might be: none of this makes anything right. #Hamas#Oct7#Israelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKybAHZ69k
The evidence is clear, Netanyahu/enablers: complicit in #Oct7.
Allowing the payments -B$ over ~a decade *gamble by #Netanyahu -steady flow of$ would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct 7 attacks -keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting.
Qatari payments -widely known & discussed in the IL news media for yrs. Critics disparage them as part of a strategy of “buying quiet” -policy is in the middle of a ruthless reassess-.
John Spencer: "I watched the ~45-min. footage of #Oct7 at a prv. screening in NYC. I understand now why this video must be selectively shown. You can't watch it w/o be in some way traumatized. I'll never forget the children. Photos of dead children in their PJs. MM, Stitch (my daughter loves at the moment). Covered in blood. Dead. I hated having to watch -can’t unsee the evil shown in it. No one should want to see it, but the horrors of that day should never: be forgotten/rationalized away..."💔
Looking increasingly like yes, #Netanyahu DID let #Oct7 happen to provide an excuse to bomb #Gaza (and also insulate him from being removed) Of course this means he betrayed his own people to protect himself and advance his own objectives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkP8UiNiJBo#israel
And there they go, protecting Netanyahu by claiming he was never told abt the intelligence findings that #Hamas was planning an operation exactly like what happened #Oct7.
Give me a break. The leader of the country is not given intelligence about a planned attack?
And who are these officials who supposedly kept the #Hamas report secret from BiBi?
His allies & appointees maybe?
Media don't want to blv or risk calling out Netanyahu's depravity?
WARNING: This video contains extremely graphic footage recovered from the Hamas invasion and massacre in southern Israel on October 7th, 2023.0:05-3:08: Foot...
A week after #Oct7 -by which time IL's all-out assault on PAs in Gaza had killed 1,000s of civilians -online editors of the Harvard Law Review reached out to R Eghbariah, PA doctoral cand. at HLS & HR lawyer *tried landmark PA civil rights cases before the IL SC.
He submitted a draft of an essay by early Nov: IL’s assault on Gaza should be evaluated within & beyond the “legal framework” of “genocide.” Will never be published with the HLR.
The Israeli state is starving the people of Gaza and I don’t know how to wrap my head around the horror of this.
I watched Asad do this to Syrians for years and it is a horrific way to die. People with diabetes will die first, in agony, and then children and the elderly.
@HeavenlyPossum
Are you suggesting #Israel stop patrolling #Gaza's airspace? Have you forgotten the method #Hamas used to attack innocent civilians on #Oct7?
Egypt is letting aid in, but not accepting any refugees. They don't want them. I don't see you criticizing Egypt.
Again, #Hamas can end this war at any time if the GAF about civilian lives.
For years #TikToK (CH govt) -target of US govt criticism & scrutiny -from Ds & Rs. In the aftermath of #Oct7 in IL -came under fire for allegedly amplifying pro-PA content +recently -anti-American screed written by #BinLaden has gotten a lot of play.
How SM tools shape platform usage actually is the impt.one. Musk: regurgitates misinfo. or expresses overtly antisemitic rhetoric. And reshaped the #XApp to downplay trusted sources of info...
Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has seen and heard evidence that Hamas fighters committed horrific sexual violence in Israel.
GRAPHIC RAW FOOTAGE: Massacre Across Israel From the Eyes of Hamas (www.youtube.com)
WARNING: This video contains extremely graphic footage recovered from the Hamas invasion and massacre in southern Israel on October 7th, 2023.0:05-3:08: Foot...
Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri (www.reuters.com)
Survivors recount their life-and-death struggle at Be’eri, a main target in the Hamas assault on Oct. 7 that has set off a major war.