When people respond to horrifying incidents of civilian deaths in Gaza by saying, “in the war Hamas started?” or “what about Hamas’s rockets?” or “Israel has a right to defend itself,” what they are actually saying is: “I support the mass killing of civilians.”
Every child killed in Gaza today would be alive if we had a cease-fire yesterday. These are the stakes. This is our failing. You can retweet this everyday until a cease-fire happens because it remains true. How high does the pile of bodies have to get?
None of you understand the level of dehumanisation we are experiencing when I watch dead infants daily, my friends' families wiped out, IDF Propaganda calling for Arabs to be eliminated, yet people on here say "I feel dehumanised this academic letter didn't condemn Hamas enough".
photos seem consistent with this haaretz story indicating houses in beeri were shelled by IDF tanks killing everyone inside, hamas fighters and israeli civilians alike https://t.co/jHJEfDrkqu
When researching El Salvador I found that the gratuitous torture, rape, and extra judicial murders of Salvadorans were taught to the army by both the US and Israeli special forces. In fact, wherever we see heinous CIA operations, we will also find Israeli support. A short🧵