Shady M. Najib

A father, an Engineering Manager, a developer community enthusiast, & a good listener. Views are my own.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The UN couldn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered and maimed by Israel.

Why?

Because they feared Israel would respond by killing and maiming the families of the children.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You are not the victims.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🟢 Israel agreed to a “ceasefire” in Gaza on October 10. Since then, Israeli forces have:

➤ Launched 852 airstrikes and artillery attacks
➤ Opened fire on Palestinians 665 times
➤ Committed 1,856 armed violations on the ground

🔴 Israel Killed:
➤ 198 Children
➤ 85 Women
➤ 23 Elderly Citizens
648 Palestinians total

🔴 Israel Wounded:
➤ 507 Children
➤ 337 Women
➤ 89 Elderly Citizens
1666 Palestinians total

The Palestinian resistance in Gaza shared on Day 137 (February 25) of the “ceasefire” a report detailing “sustained and systematic” Israeli violations of the truce.

➤ It recorded that children, women, and the elderly make up 47.2% of those killed during the “ceasefire.”

➤ It documents 1,856 Israeli field violations, averaging 13.5 violations per day, including live fire, drone strikes, artillery shelling, demolitions, and naval gunfire.

➤ The most severe violations, according to the report, concern aid. The ceasefire requires 600 trucks per day, including 50 fuel trucks. The document states that only 43.2% (260 of 600 agreed trucks) have entered overall, and just 15.1% of required fuel.

➤ It accuses Israel of providing “misleading figures” to mediators and refusing independent monitoring, calling the fuel restrictions a deliberate obstruction of recovery and basic services.

➤ Only 1,753 of 4,200 scheduled travelers were allowed to pass through Rafah in both directions — a compliance rate of just 41.7%.

The report concludes that the violations form a “continuous and systematic pattern” that has stripped the ceasefire of practical substance.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

The term “preemptive” is pure propaganda. The U.S. once again used the veneer of negotiations as a cover to bomb Iran. Tehran had just offered terms that went far beyond the 2015 nuclear deal. What was preempted was diplomacy. The same propaganda tactics used in 2003 Iraq war.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

New details about Israel's expulsions & massacres during the 1948 War, or the Nakba, were recently revealed in this @haaretzcom article, based on a cache of documents discovered.

The discovery includes documents relating to the trial of Shmuel Lahis, who carried out one of the most heinous massacres of the war (https://t.co/cVvCZThuRe).

Many IDF commanders testified at the trial, and the their testimonies were preserved in the documents:

Maxim Cohen, a commander in the Israeli army, testified in relation the expulsions in the north of Palestine after July 1948:

"How do you expel a village?" he asked rhetorically. "You lop off the ear of one of the Arabs before everyone else's eyes, and they all flee. In practice, no village was evacuated without stabbing someone in the stomach or by means of similar methods. We won thanks only to the fear of the Arabs, and they were fearful only of deeds that were not in accordance with the law."

Testimony from Yisrael Carmi, a battalion commander, describes the conquest of Be'er Sheva in October 1948:

He said the method was to kill civilians who resisted expulsion. "I conquered the city," Carmi testified. "In mopping up that area, I gave an order to annihilate anyone who appeared in the street, whether they resisted or did not resist. An order was given to destroy everything. After the conquest of the police station – after the surrender – the murder stopped. Until then everyone was killed – women and children and everyone. Then an order was given to the people to go to Hebron. Anyone who didn't go was 'removed.'"

The documents also confirm what Ilan Pappe has long argued, namely, that orders for expulsions & massacres were left out of the official IDF paper trail, while the actual orders relating to how the IDF should conduct itself were conveyed orally, and that actions on the ground were undertaken "with the knowledge of the High Command."

[David Sheen @davidsheen]

English print edition headline @Haaretz https://t.co/zmy0WhF2oy

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

New documents have surfaced revealing new details about Israel's conduct during the 1948 War in which it ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.

The documents confirm Israeli leaders carried out more war crimes & premeditated massacres than previously thought.

A July 1948 order was sent to Israeli commanders in the north titled, "conduct in captured villages where there is a population." The order stipulated that:

▶️ After an Arab village was captured, identification certificates were to be issued to the inhabitants. If someone transferred their certificate to another person, both were to be shot.

▶️ If someone did not report on time for military inspection, they were to be shot and their home was to be blown up.

▶️ If an "outside Arab" was found in a village, he was to be shot immediately.

▶️ In general, the rule was to shoot "every 10th man" in a captured village where outsiders were found.

▶️ All the men in any household in which property stolen from Jews was found were to be executed.

▶️ In Arab a-Zabah, a Bedouin community in the Lower Galilee, another order stated: "every Arab among the Zabahim is to be killed."

▶️ Another July 1948 order instructed troops to mount a search for Arabs who might have hidden in the Mount Turan area of the Lower Galilee, after the site had already been conquered. The order was: "Kill anyone who is hiding."

▶️ Another order read: "Arabs in a small number are wandering about in the [captured] villages ... the area is to be cleansed of Arabs ... every Arab who will be met with is to be annihilated."
https://t.co/Rg1zOnEUQp

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

@DeptofWar OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Actually they’re doing it quite loudly. The only reason it seems quiet is because Western media and politicians are ignoring it.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

NEW: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked an internal USAID cable in early 2024 that warned northern Gaza had become an “apocalyptic wasteland,” with bodies left in cars and human remains on the roads, according to Reuters.

The diplomats argued the cable “lacked balance,” though it was based on UN humanitarian fact-finding missions and represented what had been widely reported in the media, sources told Reuters.

Three former U.S. officials told Reuters the descriptions were “unusually graphic” and would have attracted senior U.S. officials’ attention if widely circulated within Joe Biden’s administration.

Humanitarian officials said their expertise was sidelined, and the administration instead continued backing Israel to the hilt.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

For over two years, the media told you Israel was “targeting Hamas” in Gaza.

This used to be Rafah.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

In 2025, Israeli authorities demolished at least 1267 structures on the pretext of “illegal construction” throughout the West Bank. Israeli planning and building authorities exploit Israel’s control in Area C to prevent Palestinian development and drive communities off their lands, as part of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

This year, Israel demolished more structures on the pretext of construction without permits than in any year since B’Tselem began documenting these demolitions in 2006.

Israel refuses almost all Palestinian requests for building permits, whether for homes, public buildings or infrastructure. As a result, Palestinians are forced to build without permits on their own private land and live under constant threat of demolition, harm to their livelihoods and displacement.

According to the UN, over the past year Israel demolished hundreds of structures in the West Bank on the pretext of military needs, during operations and arrest raids targeting Palestinians. According to the report, about 32,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in 2025 following military operations in the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur a-Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If Israeli media can call it what it is, why won’t Western media?

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

At least 84 Palestinian inmates have died in Israeli torture camps over the past two years. The abuse, starvation, and torture are not isolated incidents but a systematic, institutionalized policy.

This policy is fully backed by the Israeli political system, judicial system, prison authorities, and media. The IPS and Minister Ben Gvir boast publicly about the harsh conditions for Palestinians.

For example, in the past year, Israeli media have aired “rare glimpses” into prisons, in fact, PR pieces coordinated with the IPS spokesperson and Minister Ben Gvir, proudly displaying the subhumanconditions in which Palestinian prisoners are held.

Link to the full report >
https://t.co/vHSdH4GFsG

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Headlines and language you won’t see in Western media.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The fact that they invited the guy who carried out the genocide—and hasn’t stopped—tells you everything you need to know about the Gaza “board of peace.”

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Palestinians are not allowed to exist or hold their oppressors accountable.