Israeli Crimes

https://archive.ph/O8rGB

More civilians have been killed in Israel's attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7 than in 620-day Russia-Ukraine war

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27589405

In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day.

I served in Gaza for nine months, and first came across these procedures, called "mosquito protocol" in December 2023. It was only two months into the ground offensive, long before there was a shortage of dogs from the IDF's canine unit, Oketz, who were used for this purpose. This became the insane, unofficial excuse for this insane, unofficial procedure. I didn't realize then how ubiquitous using human shields, whom we referred to as a "shawish," would become.

Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.

I recently saw that the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened six investigations into the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and my jaw dropped. I've seen cover-ups before, but this is a new low.

If the MPCID wanted to do its job seriously, it would have to open far more than even a thousand investigations. But all the MPCID wants is for us to be able to tell ourselves and the world that we're investigating ourselves, so they've found six scapegoats and are pinning it all on them.

I am convinced that US politicians are scared of Israel. For what reason, I don’t know why. I hope you can explain.

Evidence:

a) 15-Jan-25: Trump/Witkoff forced Netanyahu to accept ceasefire deal:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-official-trump-envoy-swayed-netanyahu-more-in-one-meeting-than-biden-did-all-year/

b) 5-Feb-25: Netanyahu is unhappy with the peace in Gaza, visits Trump in the White House. Then after meeting Netanyahu, Trump for the first time, comes up with the “Gazans displacement plan, and developing the Riveria there”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpNyYgI2g8

Just watch Trump’s speech there, it’s like he is the puppet and Netanyahu is the puppet master.

Netanyahu is happy with Trump’s plan of evicting Gazans, calling it a bold plan.

c) 17-Feb-25: Witkoff says there will be a phase 2 of the ceasefire (and eventual end to the war),

going against the wishes of Netanyahu who wanted to extend phase 1 of the ceasefire to get all the hostages out, without entering phase 2 (which is what Hamas wanted):

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-envoy-says-there-will-absolutely-be-stage-2-of-ceasefire-as-talks-continue/

d) 23-Feb-25: Witkoff says the US wants to extend phase 1 of the ceasefire:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-envoy-witkoff-seeking-extension-phase-1-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-head-back-middle-east

e) Trump bypasses Israel, holds direct talks with Hamas, angering Israel:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-defends-direct-us-hamas-talks-as-israel-seethes-attempts-to-sabotage-them/

f) 09-Mar-25: US hostage negotiator Adam Boehler says “US is not an agent of Israel. It has its own interests”:

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/adam-boehler-hamas-israel-talks

g) 13-Mar-25: Adam Boehler removed from his position of hostage negotiations:

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjrqhpe2kg

And after Hamas’s rejection of extending phase 1, and on its insistence to follow the original ceasefire agreement of entering phase 2; the Israelis ended the ceasefire and started the war in Gaza again. They also said they informed and gave notice to the US that they were restarting the war.

Rachel Corrie, 1979-2003 (she died 22 years ago today)

Rachel, an American #peace #activist, was killed when Israeli soldiers crushed her with a #bulldozer

She was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in #Rafah by Israeli occupation forces, before they left Gaza and turned it into a giant concentration camp.

#Israel #Gaza #NeverForget #RachelCorrie #HumanShield #Politics #Gaza #Occupation

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

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