Steve Margrett

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

In retaliation for the attack in Hebron, the IDF done the following:

1) Ethnically cleansed the neighborhoods of al-Jalda and Ein Dir Baha in western Hebron. Well over 20,000 people in total were told to leave their homes with no date of return. Demolitions in the area have already begun. They have nowehere to go and will have nowehere to return to.

2) They cordoned off Hebron, a city of more than 200,000. He also announced a siege on Hebron and Halhul. It is worth noting that the Hebron governorate was already in dire economic straits, with five of seven entrances closed to a region where over 1 million Palestinians live.

3) Launched a military operation which will last a few days. Netanyahu has warned that a military operation, "the largest in teh West Bank since teh Six Day War" is being consdiered as well.

This is, of course, collective punishment which is a war crime. They are attacking the entire clan from which the attackers came from. All this without trial and without right of appeal. Once settlers moved into Hebron in the 1980s it was always going to end like this. The complete ethnic cleansing of this historic city is just a matter of time.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

1) Targeting occupation soldiers on occupied land is not terrorism by any definition

2) In response, Israel is destroying homes of completely unrelated people, a war crime according to international law

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian families from their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank overnight Friday, taking control of the properties, marking houses with X signs and hanging Israeli flags from balconies. Troops also blocked roads and closed a nearby checkpoint, restricting movement in the neighborhood as the military expanded its presence in the area.

The operation followed an attack Friday in which two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others before being shot dead by Israeli forces. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened a major military offensive following the attack.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The aftermath of the Israeli occupation forces’ demolition operations in the Farsh al-Hawa area of Hebron.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

The Zionist war criminals have stopped food aid trucks entering Gaza.
This is the result. Barbarism, state terrorism and deliberate starvation.
Everyone who enabled this will be pursued, including mainstream media and Western politicians.
You’ve made your bed……..

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Hundreds of families have been in the street with nowhere to go since they were forced out of their homes by Netanyahu’s thugs in Al Khaleel

[Ahmed Nashwan @ahmed_nashwan1]

This is not Gaza. This is Hebron today.

The Israeli occupation has begun destroying Palestine’s economic capital, a city that accounts for 75% of the country’s production in the stone and marble, leather and footwear, plastics, glass, oils, dairy, and gold industries.

Ethnic cleansing is being inflicted on the Palestinian people everywhere across the land of Palestine.

[מסתכלים לכיבוש בעיניים @Mistaclim]

הלילה בחברון וברחבי הגדה המערבית, תושבים נשים וילדים הוצאו מביתם.
ככה לא נראית מלחמה למיגור הטרור.
ככה נראה טרור.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

B’Tselem urgently calls on governments and international institutions to act now, using all means available under international law, to prevent the forcible displacement of Palestinian civilians, collective punishment and extensive unlawful destruction in Hebron. Israeli leaders are openly declaring their intentions, and actions on the ground have already begun.

Following the shooting near Hebron on 23 October, in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz openly announced plans to forcibly displace Palestinian residents and carry out extensive destruction in the area.

In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: “We will apply in the cities the successful offensive model we implemented in the refugee camps.”

That same model has already displaced more than 33,000 Palestinians in the northern West Bank. Now, Israeli leaders are threatening to bring the same mass displacement and destruction to Hebron.

Implementation has already begun. Israeli forces imposed a cordon on Hebron and Halhul, while the Civil Administration began demolishing Palestinian structures in the neighborhood of Farsh al-Hawa. At the same time, Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the establishment of four new settlement farming outposts in the South Hebron Hills.

Israeli leaders are openly announcing plans for collective punishment and acts that could constitute war crimes. These plans echo Israel’s devastating operations as part of the genocide in Gaza and mark a further escalation of its ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing as part of the Elimination Project in the West Bank: the systematic dismantling of Palestinian collective life while expanding settlements and entrenching permanent Israeli control.

The world cannot stand by as Israel continues its assault on Palestinians, waiting for yet more neighborhoods to be emptied and erased before intervening, despite what we have already witnessed in Gaza and the northern West Bank. Governments and international bodies must act now to prevent these crimes and protect Palestinian civilians.

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@bezalelsm War crime.

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@trussliz Lord, you're a moron.

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@CoachKent12 Shhhh. Stop tweeting and spend your time looking for you moral compass.

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@SecWar @DeptofWar You are evil. Kind regards

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Watched NAZA yesterday.

At the end, there was total silence, other than the occasional sob.

No one moved until the credits stopped rolling.

It’s a film which the perpetrators of genocide confessed their crimes.

One day that will happen from the dock.

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@theistinthought Because he's evil?

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@LeviSfari It wasn't the decision of anyone in this picture. NAZA.

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@JohnCleese It took me 30 seconds to check the facts. Do your research and stop being a racist. Two teens from Neath Port Talbot arrested following fire at former chapel | South Wales Police https://t.co/kuPmAuck1U

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@LisaKeshet https://t.co/JW4OKBFuGu

[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

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[Steve Margrett @SMargrett]

@RonFilipkowski What is he talking about? Anyone know?