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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Israeli press are reporting that police documents on the security for the October 7 2023 Nova music festival were mysteriously deleted at some point in early January 2024. The Jerusalem Post reports that “it is unknown who removed them and whether copies still exist.”

A new article from the Israeli outlet YNet reports that the IDF had planned to kill an Israeli soldier who was captured by Hamas in 2006, with one document stating “Hannibal in effect.” The Hannibal Directive is an Israeli military protocol ensuring that extreme measures be taken to prevent Israelis from capture by Palestinian resistance groups, even if it means killing the Israelis.

Israel’s Channel 12 has shown footage of Israeli officers demanding that the Hannibal Directive be implemented on October 7 to prevent hostages from being taken by Hamas, with a senior officer saying “(Strike) Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted.”

Many Israeli soldiers and civilians are on record saying that Israeli forces fired upon their own people on October 7.

How many of the 1,195 people killed in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood were actually killed by Israeli forces? We don’t know, and we’re not allowed to know. Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley has argued that the number was in the hundreds.

Did Israel deliberately leave its people undefended from an impending Hamas attack in order to advance pre-existing agendas? We don’t know, and we’re not allowed to know, but there are mountains of evidence indicating that they did.

Ask why there’s been so much violence in the middle east these last three years and you’ll be told it’s because of October 7.

Ask why October 7 happened and you’ll be called an antisemite.

Ask what specifically transpired on that day and you’ll be called a conspiracy theorist.

It’s just so crazy how often apologists for Israel and the western empire will cite October 7 as the spark that set off all these wars of far-reaching consequence, but it’s taboo to talk about exactly what happened on that day, and it’s taboo to talk about how Israel’s abuses provoked the attack.

The official mainstream position on October 7 is that Hamas killed 1,195 Israelis for no reason other than because they are evil and wanted to kill Jews, and that anyone who suggests it may have happened for actual material reasons is an antisemitic monster. Whenever anyone spouts the official mainstream position on October 7 at me I just want to make “goo goo ga ga” baby noises at them until they shut up and go away, because such people are not thinking like adults.

Everyone who’s been watching Israel’s behavior since October 7 now understands why Palestinian resistance fighters carried out October 7 in the first place. We’re expected to avert our eyes from the glaring plot holes in the official narrative and never suggest that Israel’s horrific abuses of the Palestinians may have played some role in giving rise to the attack, but after watching a live-streamed genocide month after month after horrifying month, we all know October 7 was just Israel reaping what it sowed.

And we know there is no evil these freaks are not capable of.

[dr. mohammed hamad - Gaza @Medo198518]

I don't think anyone will survive in the Gaza Strip in the end. Israel continues the massacre. This bombing is 500 meters away from my tent in Deir al-Balah.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Tents are the filthiest invention that has ever been presented as a “solution” to human suffering, when in reality they are nothing more than cheap, torn pieces of fabric stretched over weak poles and then called a “shelter” or a “home.” They carry none of the real meaning of a home, dignity, or even the most basic sense of safety.

How can six or seven people live inside four meters of worn out nylon? How does such a narrow, suffocating space become an entire world that is supposed to contain a whole life? No rooms, no privacy, no safety only constant overcrowding and exhausted bodies piled on top of each other.

Inside these tents, there is no such thing as a normal life. Extreme heat that is unbearable during the day, freezing cold at night, and children’s bodies worn down day after day until exhaustion becomes part of their faces. No real sleep, no rest only a relentless struggle to survive.

These tents are not placed in anything that can be called “safe.” They are scattered along roads, among ruins, and on sidewalks in random spaces that are not fit for any form of life. Surrounded on all sides, they offer no protection: not from the burning sun that tears them apart, not from the rain that easily seeps through, and not from sudden danger.

Everything around them is harsh and neglected: overcrowding, dust, rubble, suffocating smells, and a life pushed entirely to the margins. No stability, no horizon, and no sense that this place could ever become a “home.”

And in the end, the question that screams in silence remains: how did the world stay silent about all of this? How did this reality pass in front of everyone’s eyes as if it weren’t happening? Where is humanity in everything that is going on? And how can people be left to live like this without anything being done?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is still killing children in Gaza and it's no longer makes headlines.

[أخبار السعودية @SaudiNews50]

بيان هام من وزراء خارجية المملكة وعددٍ من الدول العربية والإسلامية يدينون الأفعال المروّعة والمهينة التي أقدم عليها الوزير الإسرائيلي بن غفير بحق المشاركين في الأسطول المتجه إلى غزة:

أدان وزراء خارجية كل من المملكة العربية السعودية، والمملكة الأردنية الهاشمية، ودولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، ودولة قطر، وجمهورية إندونيسيا، وجمهورية باكستان الإسلامية، وجمهورية مصر العربية، والجمهورية التركية، بأشد العبارات الأفعال المروّعة والمهينة والمرفوضة التي أقدم عليها الوزير الإسرائيلي المتطرف إيتمار بن غفير بحق المشاركين في الأسطول المتجه إلى غزة أثناء الاحتجاز الإسرائيلي.
وأكد الوزراء أن الإذلال العلني المتعمّد الذي مارسه بن غفير بحق المحتجزين يشكّل اعتداءً مشينًا على الكرامة الإنسانية وانتهاكًا واضحًا لالتزامات إسرائيل بموجب القانون الدولي، بما في ذلك القانون الدولي الإنساني والقانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان.
كما استنكر الوزراء وأدانوا بأشد العبارات أعمال التحريض والعنف غير القانونية والمتطرفة التي يرتكبها بن غفير وغيره من المسؤولين الإسرائيليين ضد الفلسطينيين في الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة.
وحذّر الوزراء من أن أفعال بن غفير الاستفزازية تغذي الكراهية والتطرف، وتعرقل الجهود الرامية إلى تحقيق سلام عادل ودائم على أساس حل الدولتين.
وطالب الوزراء بمحاسبة بن غفير على أفعاله، ودعوا إلى اتخاذ تدابير ملموسة لوضع حد لاستفزازاته وتحريضه وانتهاكاته المتكررة، ولمنعه من مواصلة تهديداته، ولضمان عدم التسامح مع مثل هذه الأفعال أو تكرارها.
وشدد الوزراء كذلك على ضرورة حماية حقوق الإنسان وصون كرامة جميع المحتجزين وضمان معاملتهم معاملة إنسانية، وضمان الاحترام الكامل للقانون الدولي في الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.

Israeli soldiers opened fire on thousands of starving Gazans as they ran in desperation for a piece of food during the war on Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel announced that they will occupy almost 10% of Lebanon, an area larger than Bahrain, New York, or Singapore.

What Israel is doing is clearly aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, and every world leader who's silent about this is complicit, along with their people.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When 12 people were killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks, World Leaders thronged to Paris for a Solidarity March

But no world leader has organised a march to protest killing 2000 civilians, ~200 children, ~300 women, 7 journalists, 178 health workers, and 3 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Girl student”

No one writes like this @Reuters.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again' if Iran doesn't agree to deal to end war

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

Who needs sanctions when you can have deep concerns?

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

Israel is brazenly granting itself carte blanche to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.

The new law dismantles fundamental safeguards to prevent the arbitrary deprivation of life and protect the right to a fair trial. It further empowers Israel’s system of apartheid, which is maintained by scores of discriminatory laws against Palestinians.

https://t.co/ku7yWQIpig

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Israel’s Knesset has passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/pGyC47dKaI

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

No country has ever killed as many journalists as Israel. It is a deliberate slaughter. And slaughter is the right word. They are intent on wiping out a generation of Arab journalists.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

To those who can't believe Israel would torture a baby, here's an Israeli soldier admitting his commander grabbed a random 4-year-old, broke his arm at the elbow & his leg, then stomped on his stomach 3 times

"These kids need to be killed from the day they're born" he bragged👇

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank “is going into overdrive, it’s worse than ever,” says Norway’s Foreign Minister @EspenBarthEide.

“Settler violence, settler activity, even supported by the Israeli government, allowing settlers to take full control of territories that legally is Palestine and which even agreements that Israel has signed have recognized as to be controlled by Palestinians.”

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A Palestinian toddler was returned from a 10-hour detention by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip with apparent cigarette burns on his thighs, according to medical reports
https://t.co/wVTlsW0mHG

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

The child who was subjected to torture (including having cigarettes extinguished on his body and a metal rod inserted into his feet in front of his father)—

In a delayed video released by the occupation, the moment of his handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross is documented in the “Yellow Line” area east of Gaza, days after he was detained along with his father.

During his detention, he was subjected to severe abuses, while his father remains imprisoned by the occupation to this moment.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Israeli forces have expanded ground operations in southern Lebanon after indicating an intent to forcibly displace residents, destroy civilian homes and conduct strikes that could target civilians.
https://t.co/u0PsyOJ4H1

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

- One bombed hospital might be a horrible mistake

- Two bombed hospitals are undeniably crimes against humanity

- More than a hundred bombed hospitals is the work of the most effective and barbaric terrorist organization the world has ever seen.