Israeli intelligence secretly surveilled officials in Gaza’s Health Ministry to check if their data on the number of civilians killed in Gaza is 'reliable', Israeli intelligence sources told us.
The army found the numbers are reliable and now regularly uses them internally in intelligence briefings.
According to two sources, Israeli intelligence has no good independent measure of the total number of civilians the army killed in Gaza, making the Health Ministry's data their main source of information.
One reason for this is that officers conducted hundreds of AI-directed assassination strikes against suspected low-level Hamas operatives, usually by destroying entire homes and killing entire families – a practice we previously termed a 'mass assassination factory’. There was often no bomb damage assessment (BDA) for these strikes, meaning there was no check on who and how many civilians were killed. This routine post-strike check was skipped to 'save time'.
'I don’t know how many people I killed as collateral damage. We only check that information for senior Hamas targets,' one source said. 'In other cases I didn’t care. I immediately moved on to the next target. The focus was on creating as many targets as quickly as possible. That’s why I trust the Health Ministry in Gaza more than the IDF for these statistics. The army just doesn’t have the information.'
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⛔️ CRIMINAL.
Every Palestinian is a terrorist for the Israeli army, starting with 8 and 11 year old children. This is the genocide logic which the so-called ‘ceasefire’ has not changed one inch. States must impose an ARMS EMBARGO and sanctions on Israel, not empty 'peace plans'.
Journalists who adopt Israeli Nazi-style euphemisms about “resettlement” and “mass emigration” are actively guilty of laundering, normalizing & enabling Israeli plans to complete the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.
The murderer remains free, continuing to torment the village’s residents — all under the protection of the judicial system and the occupation forces. This is the face of occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing — the face of human ugliness.
Israeli courts released violent settler Yinon Levi and he is now back in the village working to expand the nearby illegal settlement, a week after killing Odeh Hathalin. Odeh’s family members are still imprisoned and police refusing to give back his body.
via @masafering
Remember when critics said “No Other Land” was a fake “Pallywood” film that should be censored and insisted that settler violence was a myth?
A settler just killed one of the men who helped make “No Other Land”
oh thank god haaretz confirmed what these not very credible palestinian journalists have been saying for the past months. what would we do without haaretz!!!
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid @nirhasson @yanivkub @bar_peleg @haaretzcom https://t.co/deJTlj7K93
Former CIA Director John Brennan confirms on MSNBC:
- Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
- Iran posed no imminent threat to anyone.
- Iran was nowhere near producing a nuclear warhead.
- Iran wouldn't even use one in a first strike if it did.
The dangerous thing about Israel setting intl. norms—bombing hospitals, targeting journalists, etc— is that these are now, norms. They can happen to anyone now (including Israel) by just pointing to Israel’s impunity. In that way, the biggest threat to Israel, really, is itself.
Israel is setting off car bombs in downtown Tehran. This is literally the definition of terrorism.
Not expecting European states to condemn it, because it's very difficult to have any faith in their integrity. But that doesn't mean that the Europeans aren't damaging themselves
Israel has hit the Hakim Children's Hospital, part of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Of course they’re going to target Iran’s healthcare system, of course they’re going to kill Iranian children—they killed 20 on the first day of strikes.
They killed our children in Lebanon, in Yemen; they continue to mercilessly slaughter our children in Gaza where they have destroyed the entire healthcare infrastructure in order to ensure death & sickness. They want to level any societies of resistance to their expansionism and genocide into non-existence.
SO MUCH demands investigation in the overwhelming, nauseating horror that Israel, not just Netanyahu, has poured like boiling water on the people of Gaza (too many, inside & outside Israel, won’t be able to wash their hands so easily).
End the genocide. Then dismantle apartheid.
“Palestinians were involved in missions” is a cute way of saying that innocent people were marched at gunpoint into spaces that The Most Moral Army In The World™ were too afraid to enter.