The Al Ahli Hospital after the airstrike against it: it seems evidence of what happened here was ignored by Human Rights Watch for no good reason, meaning its subsequent report has no value.
I hate to do this to you after telling you that you can’t trust the stories about Israel and Hamas, being published in the UK’s national newspapers – but you need to know.
Therefore, please read the following thread explaining why the organisation Human Rights Watch cannot be trusted, on the basis of its failure to support a full investigation of the airstrike on Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.
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But when it was queried whether it supported an international investigation, the State Department tellingly responded that it “did not believe that is appropriate at this time.” https://t.co/VgMR0G91Za
It doesn’t report the U.S.’s telling refusal and truncates Hamas’ emphatic acceptance. HRW then released its findings without conducting such an investigation even as Hamas welcomed it.
Instead it focuses at inordinate length on Hamas’ alleged lies, such as first claiming that no physical evidence survived the blast and then getting caught hiding the evidence from the site.
How does HRW report this response? It released its findings without scrutinizing this physical evidence that it itself deemed critical, and then refused to publicly acknowledge that Hamas had “100%” agreed to let HRW examine the physical evidence.
So, after failing to conduct an investigation that Hamas would have welcomed “100 per cent”, Human Rights Watch published a report that under-emphasised Israel’s alleged involvement and over-emphasised claims about Hamas, while ignoring evidence.
Still… look what happens when Human Rights Watch confirms a story that implicates Israel in the murder of babies:
It’s been two days since Human Rights Watch confirmed reports Israel murdered five babies in what the Red Cross has called an ‘unspeakable tragedy,’ and the mainstream media are still silent.
I will continue to call them out daily so the whole world sees them for what they truly… pic.twitter.com/KidfeuJGsH
It seems the media – like the authorities – have a problem called bias.
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The first duty of any journalist – including newspaper reporters – is to the facts. This appears to have eluded staff at The Times (or was it The Sunday Times) with an article claiming that Hamas personnel were “on a mission” to rape Israelis on October 7,
It alleges that Hamas both raped and murdered.
But it seems just one element of the story was missing: evidence.
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Some were quite happy to take the story at face value…
My God.. this is one of the most horrifying & appalling stories I’ve ever read. How anyone could possibly support Hamas after this is unconscionable. https://t.co/m03EBXhgkC
… which leads this professional journalist to question that fellow (former) newspaper editor’s credibility.
In contrast, there has been a deluge of disbelief. I’m putting this on the top because it provides access to information contradicting the Times claims. This Writer has a problem with the source material because it suggests that babies were killed and beheaded, and this contradicts what was previously known (Israeli figures have shown that no babies were among the dead, although the statistics are, of course, always subject to revision). But the fact that rape is not mentioned in a report that makes so many other claims is strong evidence against the Times story:
Interesting. https://t.co/hxCYr5DTFX When I read this report from forensic pathologists, rape was not mentioned. It was a highly emotive report, and highlighted difficulties of finding the exact cause of death, even identification for several reasons. Could you please provide…
This report is completely untrue. If hamas were racists they would have done it to hostages and they been released and all are saying they were treated well.
Based on no evidence , this a complete mockery. We have proof that the same people who are being falsely accused of rape took good care of their hostages
(it doesn’t add up)
On the other hand , the accusers have lied and continued to lie on several occasions why to believe…
It is accurate to say that Israel and its representatives have lied repeatedly.
And without evidence, the Times story is just another fairy tale.
I wonder if any will suddenly be magicked up, now we’ve demanded it?
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Business as usual: Israel is pummelling Gaza again – it’s like a re-run of the last two months.
Israel has gone back to hammering Gazan civilians – and blaming Hamas for it.
But what are the real reasons behind the resumption of hostilities?
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Let’s consider this analysis. It isn’t by a mainstream media propagandist so it might be right.
Good points?
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The nonsense is stacking up on social media servers across the world – but it seems our tolerance is wearing thin, as is that of the more professional public representatives.
The vast majority of people in the West, indeed in the World, support Palestinians & detest the Fascist regime of Israel,yet virtually all Western political leaders support Netanyahu's Israel ,WHY????
I wasn’t trying to make Hamas look better than Israel, of course; I was simply pointing out that neither side can take the moral high ground.
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I was making much the same point here:
Are we to take it that you are not one of the legion who took to the social media to condemn Hamas "rapists" for kidnapping children (to quote one common example)?
These people whipped up fear over what was happening to the hostages. And was it justified?
Meanwhile, Israel’s representatives continue to make themselves look oppressive and unreasonable.
Here, one called Simcha Rothman suggests that the United Nations has kept refugees in Gaza for 75 years without finding a new home for them, in order to hurt Israel.
He wants them to be resettled elsewhere – but seems oblivious to the fact that the best place to resettle them is in the Palestinian land from which they were removed by Israelis; the land that was taken from them illegally. In fact, it is the only place to which they should be returned.
Simcha Rothman is a member of the Israeli parliament for the Religious Zionism party, part of the ruling coalition. Listen to him explain that the UN has kept refugees in Gaza for 75 years in order to hurt Israel & these refugees should be settled in other places. pic.twitter.com/dZhtJP7vVF
Here’s Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, explaining how he manipulates foreign governments by pretending to support treaties and agreements, while actually finding loopholes that allow him to do only a fraction of what is expected of him:
Very Important… Netanyahu explaining how he succeeded in wrecking the Oslo Peace Accords, neutering for Palestinian Authority and doing his best to stop a Two State Solution https://t.co/RS48FJGGoR
Here’s a response, looking at the UK’s perspective on all this:
2) This isn't an 'antisemitic trope'. It's an unacceptable truth. It's an evidenced truth. It must change. The Tories claim the UK is a 'sovereign state' after taking us out of the EU. That is a lie. That needs to change.
Look at the racism in the following tweet, based on a tweet purporting to show anti-Israel protesters telling the police they can ignore what the police are telling them.
Watch the video and you’ll see that police officers were trying to stop the protesters from using the “From the River to the Sea…” chant. But they admitted that it isn’t illegal, meaning there was no reason for the protesters to comply. So in fact, they paid attention to the police, comprehended what was being said to them and chose to ignore the request.
We let their parents in, now their offspring are hating on our streets. We gave them education, healthcare, democracy, benefits, job opps…now they're hating on our streets. We gave them freedom of speech & now they're emboldened, powerful, untouchable, they hate with impunity. https://t.co/Kl6mzsOPVv
An IDF representative tells us that the handover of Israeli hostages was “heavily choreographed and rehearsed” – but why could the hostages themselves not say this? Where are they? Did they all want to be kept away from the media? Did none of them want to speak up for the record?
Israeli hostages were forced to hold hands with and smile farewell to their brutal Hamas captors in choreographed release scenes. Evidently, some people are gullible enough to fall for this. https://t.co/OGFzqt0qmL
Here’s an American politician lying about the way Israeli hostages were treated while they were in Hamas captivity. Note that they ate the same food – in the same amounts – as their captors; if you starve a whole region, you starve everybody in it, including your own people:
My God, you are beyond shameless! The testimony of released hostages, as reported across the Israeli press, is the opposite of your grotesque lies.
Here’s more of the same kind of thing. Notice that the original posters don’t respond to criticism of their claims?
What kind of monsters bomb the location where that 84-year-old grandmother is being kept (Gaza), so access to medical aid there is restricted? It's your 'Hannibal doctrine' in action. Own it.
More usefully, efforts to prosecute Israelis for war crimes are moving forward. Here’s a surgeon who just got back to the UK from Gaza, describing his experience:
"There was a girl with just her whole body covered in shrapnel. She was nine. I ended up having to change and clean these wounds with no anaesthetic."
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a surgeon who recently returned from Gaza after 41 days, describes the conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital. pic.twitter.com/75sbBWZyEH
And here he is after meeting Scotland Yard’s war crime unit (wow – I didn’t know it had one) to give evidence of war crimes in Gaza to the authorities. Hopefully this will be passed to the International Criminal Court, which is already investigating.
Professor Ghassan and ICJP Director @tayab_ali_ met with Scotland Yard’s War Crime Unit today to start the process of passing evidence of war crimes in Gaza to law enforcement authorities.
And here’s Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, making a strong point about the way Gaza is being deprived of food by going on hunger strike herself – (presumably) to pressure US President Joe Biden to influence Israel to reverse that decision:
‘Never again means never again for everyone.’
Actress Cynthia Nixon, ‘as the mother of Jewish children, whose grandparents survived the holocaust’, declares her hunger strike to demand a permanent ceasefire.
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Owen Jones: he has been slated by Israel’s cheerleaders and warmongers, for expressing views that should be held by all of us.
Last night – November 28 – This Writer was asked by a very young friend (she’s 21) which side I’m on in the Israel/Hamas conflict.
My answer surprised everyone who was there. I said I’m on the side of peace.
They had not considered that as an option. It won me applause all around – in contrast to what happened when a left-wing journalist said the same thing after watching Israel’s film that purportedly shows Hamas atrocities committed during the October 7 attack.
Owen Jones created a YouTube clip describing his feelings, which you can find below. I urge you to watch it before drawing any conclusions about the comments it attracted.
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In it, he says he was invited to a screening of the film, which the Israel Defence Forces specifically stated was intended to drum up support for their onslaught against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
He acknowledges from the start that the film confirms that Hamas committed war crimes (along with members of other groups who crossed the border on the same day, one assumes, although that isn’t actually made clear in the clip). He makes it clear that the taking of hostages is itself a grave war crime. It should be emphasised that he does not attempt to hide or minimise the fact that war crimes were committed. As I have mentioned several times in articles about Israel and Hamas (quoting Paul Newman in another – Hollywood – movie): “There are only murderers in this room.”
He emphasises the principle that “no cause on Earth justifies the killing of civilians”. This indicates that, no matter what Jones saw in the IDF film, it was never going to sway him into supporting the IDF’s operations in Gaza that are now said to have killed more than 14,800 people, including 6,000 children (Jones himself suggests more than 20,000 people – 20 times as many as the number of Israelis killed on October 7 and one per cent of Gaza’s population, including more than 8,000 children).
He makes the point that the 43-minute film is a selection of what the IDF says are thousands of hours of material, and concludes that it is likely to show the worst events the Israeli authorities were able to find. This is logical as they are trying to trigger outrage in their chosen audience of journalists and influencers, and support for ongoing slaughter in Gaza.
But it means the material is biased, and all footage gathered by the IDF should be submitted to independent inspection; this is basic journalistic practice – a genuinely independent journalist or historian would not be able to say they could accurately assess what happened on October 7, based only on this selection. For balance, Jones adds that some horrors may not have been recorded or be in the captured material.
The footage does not support some of the most serious claims made by Israel and the IDF in the weeks since October 7. So:
There is no material suggesting that babies were beheaded. There are beheadings – one of a dead soldier (therefore not an execution) and one attempt to behead a dying Thai migrant worker that fails.
There is no evidence of torture.
There is no evidence of rape and sexual violence. Bodies found without underwear do not constitute conclusive evidence of such crimes, as Jones states.
Some have claimed that there is material showing children being killed but Jones could find no evidence of this.
Jones makes it clear that this is not to say that none of these things happened. It simply doesn’t prove that they did.
The images are coupled with audio recordings, purportedly of Hamas communications that were intercepted. Jones questions their veracity. Other such clips have been released by Israel/the IDF in the past weeks, and have been dismissed as fake by experts. There is no reason for this material not to be passed on for independent assessment.
Some of the most shocking footage was of bodies burned beyond recognition – but we have learned that hundreds of them belonged to Hamas personnel, according to Israel spokesman Mark Regev. These people would not have been burned by their colleagues in Hamas – so Jones asks the obvious question: who burned them and how?
He also asks how many people were killed by reckless fire – from either side, although he does qualify this by saying evidence only suggests two incidents involved IDF forces allegedly killing Israelis – at Kibbutz Be’eri and at the Nova rave (and the rave claim is hotly disputed). This Writer would add the IDF’s Gaza Battalion headquarters, where the commanding officer, safe in a bunker, ordered an airstrike on the surface where his troops were engaged in combat with Hamas personnel.
Jones moves on to examine articles by other journalists, including one saying the film shows Hamas are worse than the Nazis – which he correctly describes as “insulting” and “ahistorical”, belittling the horrors of the Holocaust.
Then he tackles criticism of his own behaviour, and his words (found at around the 15-minute mark in the video clip) are worth quoting here: “The roots of my politics is a revulsion at human suffering. That is the entire point of all of my work. You might not believe it, you may have invented a perverse, bogeyman caricature in your head, of who I am, but that is the point of everything that I believe in.
“Watching this film of horrors – and they are horrors – does not lead me to want to support other horrors. Watching innocent civilians being killed in Israel does not make me more likely to support killing more innocent civilians in Gaza. Indeed, several times over more innocent civilians.
“The fact that this is controversial – and I know that … those who supported this screening and its purpose find this controversial – is absurd.
“Now, you have a choice, when you learn of the horrors that humans are capable of inflicting against each other. You either allow these horrors to deepen your humanity or you use those horrors to numb your humanity so that you can be complicit in even more, and indeed even greater horrors.
“This is a very basic and fundamental lesson from human history, which is never learned, with a grave human cost.”
He returns to this later in the clip: “It’s that point at which you either look at horror, you see horror, and you deepen your humanity – or you numb your humanity; you allow your humanity to be chipped away.
“And here’s how I understand the purpose of the screening can be used for just that, is that when attendees see what is happening in Gaza, the thousands of innocent civilians, many thousands of little kids among them, as well as maimed little toddlers, newborns suffocating to death, and feel horror and anguish – and then we are meant to think back to what we saw at those screenings, to remember those poor, injured little boys crying for their dead father, and then to wipe away the horror and anguish we feel about Gaza’s innocence, so that we continue – we can continue – to support a military onslaught which will take many more lives.
“This has happened throughout history, where you are encouraged to break down your empathy for the suffering of others by selectively focusing only on the suffering of some.
“I won’t do that.”
He continued: “Those behind the screening would rightfully regard even one of the killings of Israeli civilians which I saw as intolerable. I did.
“But 20,000 dead Palestinians, many thousands of them children – that’s entirely tolerable?
“Well, there we differ in our responses to the horrors that we saw.”
He concluded: “Throughout the tortured history of our species, horror at atrocities has long been used to build consent for yet more atrocities.
“I left that screening, yes… ashen-faced, horrified, disgusted, repulsed – and more determined than ever to spare innocent people from violent deaths and suffering. That should be your response too.
“No cause on Earth justified crimes committed against innocent civilians. And those crimes don’t justify collective punishment and the mass slaughter that the people of Gaza are now suffering.”
Here’s the clip:
The response Jones received for this display of humanity in the face of horror has been, itself, horrifying.
Here’s a selection, so you can see for yourself, and put names to those who have numbed their humanity and allowed themselves to become complicit in more and greater horrors:
SICK! I have seen and heard some truly terrible things said by so called human rights activists these last two months
Nothing, NOTHING comes close to this vile diatribe by @OwenJones84 on the October 7th Hamas atrocities video he watched last week https://t.co/MM17SSqGl7
I just watched Owen Jones sow doubt about Hamas atrocities in the name of “journalistic practice”. A hollow aim since he also spread debunked misinformation on the IDF killing civilians at the Nova rave. Jones is a propagandist not a journalist. pic.twitter.com/sX8u5E8RGq
Owen Jones sat through video footage of horrific atrocities committed by Hamas then jumped on YouTube to say it wasn’t that bad. I’m not linking his video because he’s a revolting individual who has been platformed for way too long.
None of the people attacking Jones in the tweets above deserve any of your attention. They present as bloodthirsty warmongers intent on the annihilation – not of Hamas, but of Palestine and all Palestinians.
If you can remember all the way back to the beginning of this article, you may recall that when I was asked whose side I take in the Israel/Hamas conflict, I said I was on the side of peace.
You don’t get peace by invading somebody else’s country, subjugating them, stealing their land, walling in, oppressing and murdering them for 75 years – as Israel has discovered.
You don’t get peace by breaking through the walls and murdering your oppressors in a vain and (proportionately) tiny act of rebellion – as Hamas has discovered.
All you get is a perpetuation of the cycle of violence.
International law says Palestine has a right to resist the occupation of its land and the oppression of its people by Israel. But that does not give it a right to commit a single act of violence against a civilian.
Israel has a right to defend itself against acts of violence that are committed against its civilians. The issues are muddied here because it is questionable whether those acts of violence were committed on Israeli land or land that has been stolen from Palestine, in which case those civilians had no right to be there. But in any case, that does not give it a right to commit a single act of violence against a civilian.
Both sides are in the wrong. Both have committed war crimes. Both have committed atrocities.
In fairness, both have also been trying to whip up support for further atrocities. That’s why my friends were so surprised when I didn’t say I supported Israel or Hamas (or Gaza, or Palestine) but wanted peace instead.
The only way to get peace is to put the weapons away, sit down with the people you’ve been fighting and talk about how it can be achieved.
The longer that moment is delayed, they harder it will be to achieve that peace.
And yes, every one of us has a responsibility to seek that peace. You don’t get it by cheerleading for war and its atrocities.
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Between bombardments: this is northern Gaza. It looks terrible – but it seems Israel has failed to cause significant damage to Hamas.
This fascinating ‘X’ thread sheds a lot of interesting light on Israel’s tactics and behaviour in its war against Gaza, that was set to restart on November 27.
Read the thread and let This Writer know if you agree with its conclusions.
stated that he had given Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, orders to assassinate all Hamas leaders residing in exile.
and today exists wherever Palestinian communities are to be found. So even if Israel succeeded in eradicating Hamas from the Gaza Strip – or, more accurately, driving it underground – the organization will survive in the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and elsewhere.
Previous campaigns to eradicate Palestinian movements have not only generally failed, but as a rule enhanced their stature. The scale of the current onslaught has catapulted Hamas’s stature to unprecedented levels among Palestinians, and indeed among Arabs and
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Israel’s extraordinary self-regard and capacity for self-glorification notwithstanding, the elimination of Hamas is a non-starter, least of all at the hands of the thoroughly mediocre Israeli military and intelligence capabilities revealed on 7 October.
King Hussein threatened to publicly execute the James Bond wannabes, and Israel (in the person of none other than Netanyahu) was forced to deliver to Jordan not only the antidote that saved Mashal’s life but also imprisoned Hamas founder/leader Shaikh Ahmad Yassin.
and all ended up on Interpol’s wanted list. Their amateurish use of foreign passports additionally strained relations with key international allies, like Israel acolyte Stephen Harper of Canada.
the Israeli foreign intelligence agency is not your go-to outfit for a campaign of high-profile foreign assassinations against an organization on high alert. I suspect American and European intelligence agencies are slowly reaching similar conclusions.
and it hadn’t a clue. While Israel was busy “mowing the lawn” in the belief it was keeping Gaza’s armed groups in check, the Palestinians constructed an entire rainforest in plain sight.
Its successful assassination of Hizballah leader Abbas in Mussawi in 1992 produced Hassan Nasrallah, Israel’s worst nightmare. In 2006, a daring midnight wartime raid in the Bekaa Valley finally captured Hassan Nasrallah.
Similarly, Israel’s assassination campaign against Iranian nuclear scientists has been – to put it mildly – ineffective. Even the 2004 assassination of Yassir Arafat was counterproductive,
But I digress. How significantly has Israel weakened Hamas since 7 October? If you listen to Daniel Hagari (the tunnel meme celebrity), Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (who looks like death warmed over when delivering good news), or Netanyahu,
Or to continue firing coordinated rocket barrages until moments before. Or to record, edit, and centrally broadcast video footage of its military operations from multiple locations on a nearly daily basis.
The most important functions of any military organization – command and control, communications, logistics, reconnaissance, PR, and last but not least the ability and will to fight, appear intact and at best marginally affected.
It's inconceivable that Hamas has not been weakened and degraded during the past 50 days, or not lost important cadres and commanders, or depleted a significant proportion of its arsenal.
Wars are not won by slaughtering children by the thousands, or turning Gaza City into rubble and depriving an entire society of basic necessities. The Germans tried this in the Soviet Union, and the Americans in Iraq, and it didn’t end well for either of them.
Several additional months on the scale of what we have witnessed this past month or even greater, as Gallant and Hagari keep promising, now seems increasingly unlikely.
it suggests the conventional military is having difficulty succeeding. Given its overwhelming power Israel can of course inflict very severe damage on not only Palestinian society but also Hamas.
Its US and European sponsors also appear to be reaching a point where they would prefer to gradually wind this down before it gets completely out of hand and Israeli conduct ends up damaging rather than promoting their interests in the region.
In addition to being motivated by a lust for revenge and desire to achieve a body count many time higher than that inflicted by the Palestinians on 7 October, such campaigns,
that superior military force is unable to eliminate. The British after all pioneered the concentration camp during the Boer War for this objective, decades before the Nazis repurposed it for mass extermination.
Yet it is also true that the dustbin of history is littered with just causes. In the case of Israel and the Palestinians, and despite the colossal imbalance of power, it appears that Israel is increasingly losing the plot. END
So: not only has Israel’s campaign against Hamas failed to achieve any of its objectives, but it has actually enhanced that organisation’s reputation, both domestically and abroad.
So: Mossad is probably the worst intelligence agency in the developed world. This confirms a warning I gave to my buddies down the pub – that if Mossad agents were standing directly behind me, trying to assassinate me, everybody in front of me would be dead before I was.
So: Mossad’s domestic counterpart, Shin Bet, failed to detect what Hamas was doing under its nose; unsurprising, if it managed to confuse the head of Hezbollah (Hizballah?) with a greengrocer.
So: After 50 days, none of Hamas’s most important functions have been significantly degraded. Israel’s lack of effectiveness is demonstrated by a minister’s comment that it may use a nuclear weapon there.
So: Israel has attacked civil society in order to pressurise Hamas.
So: Israel’s strategy of slaughtering children and depriving an entire society of its basic necessities has not worked, and may result in disaster for that country, as it did for Nazi Germany in Russia, for example.
So: Israel has killed more UN staff, journalists and medical personnel than Hamas.
So: Israel’s sponsors in the United States and Europe are getting increasingly cold feet, realising that Israel’s conduct is damaging their interests in the Middle East.
Allegedly!
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Yasmin Porat: she was an Israeli hostage who escaped Hamas, which is not the same as the current situation – but this is the only image of a former hostage that This Site has at the time of publication.
Dept. of Even-Handedness: after spending a huge amount of time defending Gaza and Palestinians from Israeli falsehoods and propaganda, it is only fair that this idiocy be identified as well.
It has been suggested by some media types that the fact that three Palestinians are being traded for every Israeli hostage means Israel thinks Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives:
Good grief. Just when you thought journalism couldn’t sink any lower in this country. Utterly shameless. pic.twitter.com/QgklRrS8ad
This Writer hasn’t thought for a moment that the numbers we’re seeing mean Israel doesn’t value Palestinian lives as highly as those of Israelis.
It seems far more likely to me that Hamas demanded three Palestinians for every Israeli and saw that wish granted.
The suggestion that the ceasefire was delayed because of further Hamas demands tends to support that thesis.
I hope none of you have been seduced by this particular form of twisted reasoning.
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Gaza bombarded: this shot was taken a while ago. Who knows how this skyline looks today?
A four-day ceasefire and exchange of hostages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has been delayed by a day – possibly more – for reasons that are not entirely clear.
The temporary cessation of hostilities has been brokered by Qatar, and will include an exchange of 150 Palestinians who are currently held in Israeli prisons for 50 of the hostages Hamas took on October 7.
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It is not clear why the delay is happening. It has been suggested that Hamas is having trouble gathering its 50 hostages together, but it has also been suggested – by an Israeli government source, according to the BBC – that Hamas has made extra demands to be added to the deal.
So Gaza continues to suffer while the diplomats argue.
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Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy should not be allowed onto UK media unless he provides solid evidence of his claims about alleged atrocities against Israelis.
His current schtick is to claim that Hamas terrorists raped their way through southern Israel on October 7 and then kidnapped Israelis including girls aged under 18. The implication seems to be that they have been raped in captivity (or will be).
Where is the evidence to support this?
All the information we have from former hostages who have been released so far is that Hamas has treated its hostages remarkably well, looking after their needs and providing medical care where needed.
There has been no implication of mistreatment at all.
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Yet Levy makes and distributes video clips like the following, lecturing Hollywood celebrities who campaigned for the return of schoolgirl hostages taken by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014. Christians among the girls were forced to convert to Islam and then married to members of Boko Haram – so there is clear evidence of sexual mistreatment of them, in contrast to what we know about Hamas’s treatment of its October 7 hostages.
When Boko Haram abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, Hollywood leapt to action.
But when Hamas rapists abducted over 18 underage Israeli girls—silence.
Is Levy play-acting the victim, and making claims that he cannot prove?
Meanwhile, his country’s troops have murdered more than 6,000 Palestinian children – and their indiscriminate attacks may have also resulted in the deaths of some of the hostages he pleads so emotionally to save.
We all want the hostages restored to their families in good health. It seems to me that people like Levy are merely paying lip-service to that aim while his government’s armed forces endanger their lives.
This Writer has no time for such two-faced manipulation – and neither should you.
To UK media organisations: get him off our screens, out of our newspapers, off our radios. And keep him off.
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This is what we have to understand about the conflict – if you can still call it that – between Israel and Gaza (not Hamas): it is not about destroying a group of terrorists; it is about destroying the people and identity of Gaza – and Palestine – altogether.
Israeli spokespeople are keen to claim that Hamas’s raid on their country on October 7 was the worst terror attack in history – but the evidence we see every day suggests that they are wrong.
The worst terror attack in history, it seems, is the one that has been ongoing, every day since October 7, against the men, women and children of Gaza – the genocide that the country built on the words “Never again” has inflicted on its immediate neighbour.
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The following social media posts speak for themselves.
After some digging, this is the original source:
A data analysis on those murdered between Oct 7th – 26th, carried out by Norwegian newspaper ‘VG.’
The death toll has since doubled, but with schools repeatedly targeted, I see no reason this would drastically change. pic.twitter.com/oH65AmOwr3
Don’t you think that if a PM during a pandemic thinks “elderly folk have had a good innings” so death is valid. That it’s time for him to be put in a trial room in front of an elderly judge and jury…#Johnson
— I’m against Tories destroying our NHS 💛🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@TBHonestlizz) November 20, 2023
•Israeli airstrikes and bombing killed a child every 10 minutes in Gaza •Thousands of children remain missing, orphaned and injured •Children’s innocence was stolen with many witnessing the massacre of their families
Israel is going after the best + brightest of Gaza. The huge numbers of journalists, peace activists, medics, lawyers killed is not accidental. These are targeted assassinations.
The fascist regime in Tel Aviv wants to destroy the possibility of any kind of human life in Gaza.👇 https://t.co/GcuJXgEzUm
Curious as to if and when the Guardian may decide to drop the strap 'Israel – Hamas -war'? Even to a casual observer, it is clearly more a 'Israel – war on Palestinian civilians, UN workers, journalists, hospital & schools'. https://t.co/b8qKFBWpjv
Journalist Mohamed Washah reports from Nuseirat refugee camp, which was bombed by Israel last night. The Israelis targeted/destroyed the house of a doctor who has been working at Al Shifa hospital. There were around 50 people in the house & most of them are still under the rubble pic.twitter.com/Nxu41FZYuZ
And the lies are still coming thick and fast from Israel, especially about al-Shifa hospital:
The architects in the 80s/90s were Gershon Tzapor and Benjamin Edelson both well experienced in the construction of high standard hospitals. They added a lower basement layer to al_Shifa. The project in the 1980s was part of a project to improve the living conditions in Gaza then https://t.co/98vMacfaTQ
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most. It didn't happen so hard that it actually unhappened things that had previously happened! pic.twitter.com/TS1s7uzSiZ
Israel is primarily targeting five-year-old children rather than Hamas terrorists, and is also eliminating people in positions of responsibility and societal value in Gaza. The aim is apparently to make it impossible to continue living there.
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