Israeli discourse and de-humanization of Palestinians
Dehumanization in Israeli institutions and the IDF
Much of
the above is made possible through the consistent de-humanization of
Palestinians, first and foremost those living in Gaza, discussed in this
section, as well as the language and practice that makes them distant,
inaccessible or absent to the Jewish Israeli population (on this see the
section on the media and propaganda below).[1]
This dehumanization has proceeded from the top of the Israeli state. Israel’s
Prime Minister has described the conflict as “a struggle between the children of light and the
children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle”,[2]
stated that “this war is civilization against barbarism”[3]
and defined the war as a battle against the Biblical Amalek in both a speech and in a letter he sent to
IDF soldiers.[4]
The Bible directs to annihilate Amalek completely: men, women, children and
livestock.[5]
Israel’s President has stated that Israel did not distinguish between militants
and civilians, “it’s an entire nation out there that is responsible”.[6]
He also personally wrote a message on an artillery shell to be shot into Gaza.[7]
Israel’s Minister of Defense has described the Palestinians in Gaza as “human
animals”. At least five other government ministers have made similar statements
as late as May.[8]
Israel’s National Security minister told Border Police troops they should shoot
terrorists even if the terrorists do not threaten them, against procedure.[9]
The minister of Social Equality and Women’s Advancement asserted that she was
proud of the ruins in Gaza and that every baby there, even 80 years from now,
will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did.[10]
In late March, she stated that Israel’s was fighting against the Amalekites “of our times” in
explicit context of the religious obligation to exterminate Amalek.[11] A ruling party MP has stated on TV that he was told “it is clear that we
need to destroy [or annihilate, depending on translation of להשמיד] all
Gazans”.[12] Other
politicians have done the same.[13]
Israel’s Ambassador to the UK justified the destruction of Gaza because “every
school, every mosque, every second house” was connected to a tunnel Hamas was
using and therefore a legitimate target.[14]
In March, a former
general described the people in three areas from which Israel
retreated (Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon) as “human animals”.[15] As late as
mid April, Israel’s Finance Minister stated that “There are 2 million Nazis in
Gaza who want to slaughter, rape and murder every Jew”.[16] In early
May, a Likud official stated that “there are no uninvolved [civilians] there,
you have to go in and kill, and kill, and kill”.[17] In mid
June, Israel’s Foreign Ministry placed an ad that claimed that “there are no
innocent civilians there [in Gaza]”.[18]
Institutions
in Israel’s security apparatus repeatedly dehumanized Palestinians. The IDF ran
a Telegram channel (“72 Virgins – Uncensored”) that propagandized Israeli
audiences through explicit and uncensored “exclusive” videos and images that
depicted killings and corpses in Gaza, using explicit language that also
compared Gazans to cockroaches and rats.[19]
The IDF has published a series of eight poetry volumes that contained poems by
civilians, soldiers (including the commander of the IDF Education Corps) and
reservists – contained many revenge themes as well poems that treat the war as
a religious war.[20]
Reservists have claimed that the IDF brought rabbis in uniform to speak to
soldiers. At least one stated that all Gazans must be destroyed and shot.[21]
A similar attitude, calling for the extermination of all Gazans, including
children, or alternatively ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip, has been voiced
by dozens of middle-ranking officers in their social media accounts – sometimes
claiming it is the moral thing to do.[22]
In January, over 130 reserve generals and colonels serving in Gaza called upon
the military to lay siege to the Northern Gaza Strip, block humanitarian aid
and stop the operation of any hospital.[23]
In mid-March Israel’s security apparatus attempted to return to Gaza about 20
Gazan children and adults suffering from debilitating conditions such as cancer
and receiving life-saving treatments in hospitals in East Jerusalem and Israel.[24]
The decision was delayed after a petition by the charity Physicians for Human
Rights to Israel’s Supreme Court.[25]
In April, the IDF scattered fake money bills in the Strip with a portrait of
the local Hamas leader depicted as a rat.[26]
In May,
the IDF began an open campaign to blackmail Gazans through airdropped pamphlets
and a dedicated website. The campaign targeted Gazans who provided information
about their neighbors – including their sexual orientation or extra-marital
affairs – to the Hamas security forces. The pamphlets contained the images and
IDs of 130 males who were such supposed informants (some were clearly minors). It
called upon other informants to reach out to the IDF, and in the meanwhile
began publishing the supposed personal information of these Gazan informants.
The website provided information to Gazans about whether they were the targets
of such surveillance. The information itself was said to be sourced from hundreds
of thousands of internal records of Hamas.[27]
De-humanization in the IDF
The
dehumanization of Palestinians is now normative, pervasive and obvious in many
hundreds[28]
of images and videos, almost all of which were uploaded by IDF soldiers to
social media.[29]
These videos and images present shooting civilians waving white flags,[30]
abuse of individuals,[31]
captives and corpses,[32]
gleefully damaging or destroying houses[33],
various structures and institutions,[34]
religious sites[35]
and looting of personal belongings,[36]
as well as randomly firing their weapons,[37]
shooting local animals,[38]
destroying private property,[39]
burning books within libraries,[40]
defacing Palestinian[41] and Islamic symbols[42]
(including burning Qurans[43]
and turning mosques into dining spaces[44])
and declaring a new Nakba.[45]
More videos are covered by The New York Times[46]
and CNN.[47]
One video,
for example, shows tens of Palestinian captives from Gaza sitting in a bus tied
up and with their eyes covered. An Israeli solider then demands that they
praise his family and state that they want to become slaves to his family
“forever and ever”.[48]
Another testimony of a Gazan doctor states that the detained director of
Al-Shifa medical complex was made to crawl like an animal, had a chain placed
around his neck and was told to eat from a bowl like a dog.[49]
A Gazan detainee said that IDF soldiers placed women detainees from Gaza in the
men’s section while being completely naked, and cut the hair of some of the
women detainees.[50]
A detained Gazan woman recounted her story about the
abuse and humiliation she suffered during her own detainment, during which she
was separated from her little children and IDF soldiers beat her on multiple
occasions as well as threatened to bury her alive.[51] A Palestinian woman claimed that IDF
soldiers carved a Star of David on her husband’s back during his time in
detention.[52] One soldier filmed a dog eating the corpse
of a Gazan, exclaiming that it “took [the corpse of] the terrorist apart”, then
moved his camera to discuss the beauty of the view and the sunset.[53]
Looting has become normalized[54] to the
extent that one case was featured approvingly in a popular Friday evening news
segment,[55] while a
prominent Israeli journalist’s Telegram channel shared an image of a table full
of money with the caption “The [IDF] paratroopers hit the jackpot in Khan
Younis”.[56] Soldiers
shared an image of themselves with tens of thousands of shekels (thousands of
dollars).[57] A
military doctor noted disapprovingly that looting had become “almost
institutionalized”.[58] An IDF soldier attempted to sell
online a Gazan passport and other items he had looted while serving in Gaza.[59]
Another filmed himself sifting what appears to be flour originally delivered to
Gaza by humanitarian aid organizations, and cynically thanking them as well as
the UN and UNRWA.[60]
Revenge is
a common theme in this content.[61]
Some IDF soldiers shared social media content that explicitly compared Gazans
to the biblical Amalek (see above),[62]
as well as stating that they have fulfilled the religious commandment to
annihilate the memory of Amalek.[63]
Other IDF soldiers opened a “Hamas Hunting Club”, complete with a patch and
logo, and filmed themselves holding it with Palestinian detainees in the
background.[64]
Other soldiers upload much revenge content and relate it to the destruction of
the Gaza Strip, including the destruction they themselves caused.[65]
A collection of brief interviews with IDF soldiers, uploaded by an IDF soldier,
reveals that many of them speak of destroying the Strip and exacting revenge.
The creator asserts that “It’s us or them. There is no proportionality and no
symmetry”.[66]
High ranking officers have said similar things.[67]
In January alone, the IDF burned hundreds of houses and apartments in Gaza
which Israeli soldiers temporarily occupied, without legal approval in a
procedure that became normative.[68]
During the Jewish Purim celebration, IDF soldiers filmed themselves reading the
Scroll of Esther while indiscriminately firing a mortar found each time the
name “Haman” was mentioned (in Jewish tradition, the mentioning of the name
“Haman” during reading the Scroll is supposed to be accompanied by loud noise).[69]
Soldiers preparing to enter Rafah in early May called for “let’s take Rafah
apart” as their battle cry.[70]
Many
soldiers release videos that portray their experience and destruction in Gaza
as fun and humorous,[71]
treating their experience like a video game,[72]
or content that ignores the war, such as conducting a yoga class in an
abandoned home in Gaza,[73]
or a soldier holding up a sign advertising a barber shop in Israel with corpses
of dead Palestinians around him.[74]
A group of armed soldiers in uniform held signs with the message “We, soldiers
of the Jewish People’s Army from the [political] Right and Left will not disarm
until we erase and annihilate Gaza”.[75]
One soldier expressed his will to poison the flour on the trucks bringing
humanitarian aid to Gazans.[76]
Other photos include soldiers posing near election banners for local (Israeli)
politicians and restaurant chains “coming soon” to Gaza.[77]
Recurring types of content include humorously presenting the lingerie of Gazan
women[78]
or posing with items (often toys) from abandoned Gazan houses.[79]
Ha’aretz, the left-leaning Israel newspaper, covered without irony the
good food that IDF soldiers were eating in abandoned homes in Gaza at the same
time as their displaced owners were starving.[80]
N12 has featured a story about the graffiti Israeli soldiers leave in Gazan
homes, presenting it positively and even comparing one soldier to the artist
Banksy.[81]
The IDF has even brought influencers to mockingly “review” a “hotel” in Gaza.[82]
An IDF soldier reflected that other soldiers went into the Gaza Strip as a form
of tourism to see the destruction.[83]
In late
February, the top IDF lawyer acknowledged that the actions of some soldiers
have crossed the criminal threshold, and said that action must be taken against
them.[84]
I have seen almost no reporting on such disciplinary processes within the IDF
since the beginning of the war, and in the few cases where such process took
place the impact on the IDF soldiers committing the acts was negligible.[85]
In mid May during another round of ICJ hearings, for example, the IDF moved one
soldier whose destruction videos went viral on social media away from the Gaza
Strip.[86]
In late May, Israel’s chief military advocate stated that since the beginning
of the war the Military Advocate General had opened 70 investigations on cases
that included the deaths of Palestinian detainees (on this see below) and
looting.[87]
As the evidence in this document indicates, this is a miniscule number of
investigations compared to the evidence for committed crimes.
Dehumanization in Israeli society
In the
first month of the war, some 18,000 calls to flatten, erase or destroy Gaza
were mentioned on Hebrew Twitter (compared to 16 in the month and a half before
the war).[88]
Similar calls appear in public space, for example in graffiti.[89]
In October, an adviser to Israel’s Prime Minister called for torturing Hamas
militants in a graphic way.[90]
In November, 90 Israeli doctors signed a letter calling to bomb hospitals in
Gaza,[91]
while the president of Israel’s largest university compared Hamas to Amalek.[92]
A popular singer used a long series of expletives against Gaza during a show
for Israeli soldiers.[93]
In early January, a long
list of rabbis, academics and ten MPs have called for the cessation of all
humanitarian aid to Gaza.[94]
In February, a former senior Mossad figure and an important journalist agreed
that children aged 5 and up in Gaza are not uninvolved in the conflict and
therefore do not deserve humanitarian aid.[95]
The Rabbi of Tzefat compared the Gazans to Amalek and claimed that they should
be eradicated.[96]
In April,
42% of Israeli Jews claimed that Israel should not follow international
humanitarian law.[97]
An Israeli media outlet has also noted with glee that the number of deaths of
“Arabs” in Gaza in the current war is higher than all previous wars.[98] Another prominent
Israeli journalist stated on live TV: “there are no innocent people in the Gaza
Strip, there are none… and the fact that they are now enjoying themselves on
the beach instead of being starved, instead of being jerked around, instead of
being severely tormented, instead of hiding from bombing… We should have seen
there a lot more revenge, a lot more rivers of Gazans’ blood”.[99]
Similar sentiments appear on Israel’s main TV channels.[100]
Similar messages are directed at Arabs/Palestinians in general. An Israeli
model/influencer stated that all Palestinians with Israeli citizenships should
be annihilated,[101]
a sentiment followed by a cameraman for the Israeli Channel 14.[102]
When three members of a family of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship died in
a car accident, large numbers of Israelis voiced their joy on social media.[103]
An Israeli DJ played the melody of the racist chant “May your village burn”,
directed at Palestinians. The crowd at the party began chanting and dancing to
the tune.[104]
An Israeli
Telegram channel with 127,000 followers shared the image of a Gazan child with
cerebral palsy who starved to death as the sequel to the film E.T.[105]
A rabbi at the head of a yeshiva for pre-military age men stated that according
to Jewish law, all Gazans must be killed, including babies.[106] A popular Israeli
stand-up comedian mocked Gazans who were killed from faulty airdropped
humanitarian aid, declaring that they were “such morons”.[107]
Israeli TV promoted a genocidal song in which a choir of Israeli children sang
lines such as “In a year, there will be nothing there [in Gaza] and we will
safely return to our homes. Within a year, we will annihilate everyone and then
we will return to plow our fields” (the original song was removed).[108]
Several Israeli hip hop hits have been released as well, garnering millions of
views on YouTube. These songs call for repeated attacks on Gaza, dehumanize
Gazans (“All your Fatmas look like whores”) and express glee for Gazans not
having food, water and homes
(e.g. “You don’t have bread or
water. Ah and you don’t have a home either”).[109] A senior journalist
asserted that Gazans “have earned that hell fairly, and I don’t have a
milligram of empathy”.[110]
A senior commentator stated that “to destroy Hamas… you have to bring Gaza to a
humanitarian disaster”.[111] Many other media
workers and artists have said similar things.[112]
Voices on the street speak openly and positively about the killing of civilians
in Gaza in interviews.[113]
One t-shirt in Israel features the text “May your [i.e. Arab] village burn”.[114] After the IDF bombed
and killed 7 workers of an international NGO (discussed above), a popular
Israeli telegram channel expressed joy for the deaths for the foreign citizens
while discussing them in a humiliating manner.[115]
When the IDF killed three sons and four grandchildren of Ismail Haniyeh, one of
Hamas’s leaders,[116]
an Israeli journalist cited the religious commandment to erase the memory of
Amalek.[117]
Another Israeli journalist attached to an image of the Israeli bombing of
civilians in Rafah in late May, which killed dozens, the text “the central
lighting [i.e. of bonfires for Lag BaOmer, which took place that day] this year
in Rafah”.[118]
Some Israeli police officers apparently believe that there are no innocents in
Gaza, including a fetus in his mother’s womb.[119]
Israeli
demonstrators have repeatedly attempted to block humanitarian aid from entering
Gaza, including holding a rave/protest just outside the border wall.[120]
After the “flour massacre” on 29 February, Israel’s Minister of National
Security called to “completely support” all IDF troops while also calling for
stopping all humanitarian aid to Gazans.[121]
Some IDF soldiers have also called to stop all humanitarian aid.[122]
When the IDF transferred about 70 Gazan orphans to the West Bank as a gesture
of good will to Germany, it was harshly criticized by both politicians and the
government.[123]
In early May, an Israeli crowd attempted twice to set fire to UNRWA’s main
building in Jerusalem, calling “let your UN burn” as well.[124]
When a teacher was suspended for participating in a Nakba commemoration, the
children of her school demonstrated against her, repeatedly shouting “may your
village burn”.[125]
The de-humanization
of Palestinians is closely associated with a sharp increase in Israeli
militarism. Israeli dating practices attest to both these changes.[126]
It became extremely common for soldiers and reservists during the war to upload
to their social media accounts, including accounts on dating apps, content
related to the war – such as images of themselves in uniform brandishing guns,
standing in front of destroyed buildings, sitting in abandoned homes, or
filming themselves with Gazan detainees.[127]
One Tinder bio, for example, stated that “We are not only here to fuck Hamas”.[128] Both men and women,
both within straight and LGBT communities and dating apps, have reported that these
images have increased the “stock value” of those that upload them (a similar
effect was reported for soldiers in uniform who frequented bars).[129]
All of the above legitimizes as well as incentivizes violent behavior in the
war within the Gaza Strip.
Effects of de-humanization on detained and arrested
Palestinians
Thousands
of Palestinians have been detained and moved to camps within Israel.[130]
Many of these Palestinians (as much as 85-90% according to Israeli media) are
detained without any concrete connection to Hamas.[131]
The conditions throughout the process of arrest and detainment are appalling,
as a released Gazan poet has narrated in detail in The New Yorker in
January.[132]
Many others have shared similar stories, including on the torture they
experienced.[133]
One NGO wrote a report based on interviews with 100 released Palestinian
detainees, revealing various kinds of torture and abuse and concluding that
“the Israeli army routinely and widely commits crimes of arbitrary arrest,
enforced disappearance, willful killing, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual
violence, and denial of a fair trial.”[134]
For example, several Palestinians claimed that the IDF brought groups of 10-20 Israeli
civilians to watch the torture they underwent when they were detained.[135]
Online videos provide more evidence for the torture.[136]
In one, a Gazan doctor who was detained by Israel said that he was held for 45
days, throughout which he was blindfolded and handcuffed, with his legs tied in
clamps in what amounts to torture. He was subsequently released.[137]
The official position of Israel’s medical directorate recommends such
blindfolding and handcuffs.[138]
At least 8
Palestinian prisoners and captives have died in Israeli jails since the
beginning of the war,[139]
where conditions are appalling as well.[140]
The IDF has admitted that additional detained Palestinians from Gaza have died
but refused to supply additional details,[141]
until in early March Ha’aretz revealed that 27 Gazans died in IDF
detention.[142]
By late May, the number increased to 35 including two who died en route to the
detention facility after soldiers beat them, and two who died because of poor
medical treatment.[143]
By early June, the number of Palestinians who died in potentially criminal
circumstances according to the IDF increased further to 48.[144]
For comparison, in the notorious American Guantánamo prison, 9 prisoners died over more than 20
years of operation.[145]
The IDF refused to answer whether it opened Military Police investigations for
the deaths of these Gazans.[146]
In late March, Physicians for Human Rights Israel examined 10 cases of
Palestinians who died in detention facilities, and participated in the
autopsies of five. In two cases, the autopsies found severe signs of violence
and assault, four people suffered from medical issues, and in one case the
specific cause of death was medical neglect.[147]
According
to a law amendment that was passed after the beginning of the war, Israel can
now hold “illegal fighters” as detainees for up to 45 days without a warrant or
notifying their families, and putting a detainee in contact with their lawyer
can be delayed for up to 75 days (or half a year, if a judge approves).[148]
The same law was used, for example, to detain and imprison an 82-year old woman
with Alzheimer disease for almost two months.[149]
Israel has declared that families of detainees can receive no information about
them for the first 90 days of their detention, after which they can send an
email to a generic email address to attempt to schedule an appointment between
the detainee and a lawyer.[150]
As a result of these policies, for example, a Gazan who was detained with his wife said
that she was separated from their children (a 4 year old boy and a half year
old baby), and that since his release he has not found her or them.[151]
Early
details from an UNRWA report based on over a hundred interviews with released
detainees contained many gruesome details, such as a Gazan law student who was
beaten so badly that his genitals turned blue and his urine continued to
contain blood for weeks. He was forced to sleep naked in the open air, next to
a fan blowing cold air, and was played music so loudly that his ears bled.[152]
The released UNRWA report added details, referring for example to some
detainees being forced into cages and attacked by dogs (several released
detainees, including a child, had dog bite marks).[153]
Detainees were threatened with prolonged detention, injury or the killing of
their family members if they did not provide information.[154]
One detainee stated that the soldiers shot nails on his knee, and that those
nails were kept there for about 24 hours. Other forms of abuse include drinking
from toilets, keeping at least one group of detainees naked, and sticking an
electric probe up the anus of male detainees (one person is said to have died
after such treatment).[155]
An ABC report interviewed one Palestinian who described how Israeli forces
would bring dogs on a leash to pee on the detainees and feed detainees rotten food and salted
water.[156]
Another detainee recounted he lost 37 kilograms during his period in detention
and described experiencing electric shocks as a form of torture.[157]
One released detainee recounted that he could use the restroom for only four
minutes, after which he would be electrocuted.[158]
One British doctor returning from Gaza recounted the case of a Gazan who had to
use a wheelchair and had been detained for a few weeks during which he was
handcuffed and developed pressure sores on both sides. When he was released,
his hip bones were visible on both sides.[159]
A BBC investigative report in mid-March found that the IDF beat, humiliated and
detained for days dozens of Gaza medical staff from Nasser hospital. The UK
foreign secretary said that the report was “very disturbing”,[160]
while the UNICEF spokesperson revealed the extent of destruction in the
then-empty hospital.[161]
As of June, according to one NGO, international press reports documented at
least 7 cases of rape against Palestinian prisoners and detainees.[162]
In early
April, an Israeli doctor in the hospital in the detainment facility Sde Teiman described
in a letter the harsh conditions in which the detained Gazans are held. His
letter stated that in the week of his writing, two patients’ legs were
amputated because of injuries they sustained because of the way in which their
legs were restrained during their detainment (“this is a regular event”). All
patients in the hospital are straw-fed, wear diapers, are blindfolded and their
hands and feet are all handcuffed[163] (even before the war, 95% of prisoners were restrained when they
received medical treatment)[164].
Another doctor reported the same and added that the detainees are naked except
for the diapers. He believed that “even the medical treatment at the base
amounted to torture”.[165]
A medical source described the situation as “it’s like a different world or a
black hole. There’s a disease incubator there”.[166]
In mid-April Physicians for Human Rights Israel called to “Shut down the Sde
Teiman Facility Now”, stating that it reflects “a moral and professional low
point”.[167] A further
investigation by CNN in May confirmed the aforementioned findings based on
three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the camp. It also added descriptions
such as that “the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to
rot”. Gazas were regularly beaten “out of revenge”, while the Gazans were
“stripped down of anything that resembles human beings”.[168]
A New York Times report in June provided additional similar evidence,
adding details about the rape of male Gazan detainees.[169]
An Israeli medic said that he was ordered to perform medical procedures outside
his area of expertise, and that he was ordered to perform these medical
procedures without anesthesia.[170]
For weeks the facility’s hospital lacked medicine for treating chronic
illnesses. In early April the facility held some 600-800 Gazans (and 849 others
were arrested in Israeli prisons),[171]
but Israel began phasing out the camp in early June.[172]
The number
of women detained in Gaza (and the West Bank) since Oct. 7 has been in the
hundreds (140 in Gaza in mid-December[173]).
In mid-February, a panel of experts appointed by the UN’s Human Rights Council
found evidence for egregious human rights violations, including keeping Gazan
women in a cage in the rain and cold, without food, sexual assault against
detained women including rape in two cases, and threats of rape and sexual
violence, as well as uploading pictures of female detainees in degrading
circumstances.[174]
One Palestinian detained woman stated that “For the most of the interrogations,
I and the majority of the detainees were repeatedly threatened with rape”.[175]
Another Palestinian woman has spoken about the sexual, emotional and physical
abuse she has experienced for over a month in which she was detained.[176]
Other women have said similar things.[177]
In late March, an Israeli former general claimed that a US official accused the
IDF of “systematically” abusing Palestinian women.[178]
In late May, an NGO report described that women detainees were sometimes kept
nude in front of male soldiers and were threatened with rape, as well as
undergoing the same forms of torture that men detainees underwent.[179]
[3] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-to-dutch-leader-this-war-is-civilization-vs-barbarism/
[4] https://www.maariv.co.il/news/politics/Article-1049593; https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211133201/netanyahus-references-to-violent-biblical-passages-raise-alarm-among-critics
[5] 1 Samuel 15.2-3.
[7] https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-01-03/ty-article/.premium/a-munition-signed-by-israeli-president-could-hit-a-child/0000018c-cbc4-d4e1-ad8f-fff5a0c70000
[8] https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf, pp. 60-62. ; also https://www.politico.eu/article/ron-prosor-israel-evoy-hamas-animals-must-be-destroyed ; https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1798525376462725150
[10] https://twitter.com/GolanMay/status/1759675501424042329; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1760354792663142557
[13] https://twitter.com/AmirHetsroni/status/1743063371551822292 (speaker is Moshe Feiglin); https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/syq0011n006
[16] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1781995666593456397
; https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1779764062433284213
[19] The IDF’s involvement was denied at first. https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/security/2023-12-12/ty-article/.premium/0000018c-3918-dc03-a9ec-3d7b95f80000; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/security/2024-02-04/ty-article/.premium/0000018d-7042-dd6e-a98d-f462d6a00000
[20] https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/literature/2024-03-26/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018e-7ad9-d96c-af9f-7ed9e9fa0000
[21] https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2024-05-15/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000018f-7c03-d808-a9bf-ff1745530000
[22] Running list here (34 officers as of mid
June): https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794826941209702699 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1795152167457751511 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796122820683891010 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798073737893511506 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798998289456799978 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801344353375555936 ; also https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-israel-genocide-soldier-rhetoric-instagram ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801316437794963578
[23] https://ynet-pic1.yit.co.il/picserver5/wcm_upload_files/2024/01/21/S1mT5hcKp/merged.pdf ; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/israel-hamas-war-gaza-idf-aid-strike-world-central-kitchen/
[25] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-03-20/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-5d54-d27e-a7af-7ffe83dc0000 ; https://twitter.com/PHR_IL/status/1770877688539988234
[27] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-21/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-9b46-dce9-a1cf-ffc6dcee0000
; https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/israels-extortion-leaflets-and-namecheap-how-to-do-corporate-accountability-during-a-genocide/
[28] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAT9NQ4WkE0 (hundreds; see below for many others)
[29] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/videos-of-israeli-soldiers-acting-maliciously-emerge-amid-international-outcry-against-tactics-in-gaza ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1757920440155242710 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1761868392326148474 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1763708173905506449 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1763563991387746557 ; images at https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1764384165724598533 ; plenty of content at: https://www.wattan.net/ar/news/430229.html?fbclid=IwAR3bg9o99KfZMujG1phBlSJxDhNWlMF6hAaL8nQlaf-3b-98IjZVX2BOV4k . Another collection at: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1769359560131657965 ; another collection at: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1771890196805517815 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772715497890394325 ; another collection at: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772964108121313599 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1773452674802806910 ; another collection of dozens of videos
and images: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1773723836254450046 ; https://twitter.com/LensVeritatis/status/1774998396501373207 ; another collection of dozens of videos
and images: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1775998584506167408 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1776588809011970367 (collection) ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1776384065920217472 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1778542167612592554 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1790108960927719626 (collection) ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772964772629111095 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1791770589985640847 (collection) ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1792656511510143472 (collection) ; https://www.mako.co.il/news-n12_magazine/781730bdada5e810/Article-979e397c1ea9f81027.htm ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1795042539084345829/ ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798765503940530377 . More coverage at: https://zeteo.com/p/israel-soldier-gaza-genocide-instagram-facebook
[30] https://twitter.com/middleeasteye/status/1744351540435935525 ; https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1750601287102542296; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1749971465422745729 ; see also https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session56/a-hrc-56-crp-4.pdf , paragraphs 208-218.
[31] https://www.mistaclim.org/he/post/%D7%94%D7%92%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1786440756573680082
[32] Long list of videos
at: https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1713533460290076817, https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1744296383174025397 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1745427870216851736 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1747994879156793524 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1752258519900766489 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1755891061015064836 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1758617748383453638 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1758914324150538698 ; https://twitter.com/angeloinchina/status/1759769783409738006 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1764778057364042167 ; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1764759225241129162 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1765447101100785887 ; https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/05/social-media-posts-show-off-blindfolded-and-bound-palestinian-detainees/ ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1767223231549718862 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1768061335030444144 ; https://twitter.com/Aboujahjah/status/1769867124103598146 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1774197948487725476 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1795048143261724958 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801560741138350491
[33] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiC4ApANLwg; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiolU7WwpUQ ; https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240103-israeli-soldiers-invade-damaged-house-in-gaza-and-destroy-it/; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1743665392722059344 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1748137507319939548 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1746581304999542901 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1751618405453422875 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1753158451734220834 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1756458915473105113 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1757155595877032104 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1757163079207358570 ; https://twitter.com/NourNaim88/status/1760434485957390399 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1761849659671085212; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1761723209760608272 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1765297033093538206 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1771330290629157277 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1771541779453546829 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772404140502630573 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1778766344256737443 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1787814577033375768 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794648644920238114 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1795114456936063484 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796840765189988723 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796999248841453615 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798325368023384423 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798685435356393524 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801743066497212733
[34] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1742346460559995063; https://twitter.com/NourNaim88/status/1743626241104543942 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1760038133872095300 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772713480140865594 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1780594979230109978 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1793934222341611526 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794012735228825939 ; https://x.com/KhaledYousry22/status/1798056593218760839 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1800455049296191612
[35] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if_Z2ZeqrN8 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1754458148276990180 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1757054593656103198 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1777799671647191117 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1789978344311648368 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798393141021553018 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1799879016436093021 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1800841913349894346
[36] https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/amid-ongoing-genocide-gaza-systematic-israeli-theft-occurring-palestinian-civilian-homes-enar; https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-singer-helpless-israeli-soldier-filmed-tiktok-his-guitar ; https://twitter.com/BChutzpah19416/status/1750186862579269867; written report
that includes a soldier confessing to looting homes before demolishing them: https://medium.com/@dillontelem/gaza-warzone-musings-a-soldiers-reflections-on-demolition-and-humanity-7ddeae313c00 ; https://twitter.com/adinitay/status/1756791144111816917 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1757157210356936804 ; https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1760426342753935765 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1761463006720926062 ; https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1761815084081246331; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1762221066372485260 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772399473018192372
[37] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1769705371935912186 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1769359560131657965 ; https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1776475339595628838 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1789265125720920243 ; https://x.com/arixegal/status/1793722854346990066
[39] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1748130778737729911 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1761472312908320798 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1764773062908547579 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1765035342032142672 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772398568621346898 ; https://twitter.com/adinitay/status/1772903912867016869 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1776955769553867178 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1788192609900380361 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1786848576674443715 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1789325679525249441 ; https://x.com/_NicoleNonya/status/1793681516846788943 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796232276818424251 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796239229779062919 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801555895878361567 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801747288328479222 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801740747453940209
[40] https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1793628894245118205 ; https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/israeli-soldier-burning-books/
[41] https://twitter.com/NourNaim88/status/1742273606699106542; https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1743712184725594564 ; https://twitter.com/AlonLeeGreen/status/1787892635186712737
[43] https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1793032057649512671 ; also https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1793756431881294035
[45] https://x.com/YousefMunayyer/status/1791807669797347571 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1793047312115040450
[46] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/world/middleeast/israel-idf-soldiers-war-social-media-video.html
[51] https://snd.ps/post/117484/%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AD-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%B6%D8%B9%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A3%D8%B7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A ; https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1773318803075531136
[54] https://www.mekomit.co.il/ps/132092/ ; https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2024-05-15/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000018f-7c03-d808-a9bf-ff1745530000
[57] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772972625532207265 ; also https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796637726835446048 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1802082633679090163
[61] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1750219568428036237 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1756652152607457781
[62] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1762185882994425961 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772965195683336261 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1792891418370781395
[68] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-01-31/ty-article/.premium/0000018d-5fea-d9df-a9cd-7ffe4e820000 ; https://twitter.com/OmerArvili/status/1753754952155934999 ; see also this undated video of an IDF
Major apparently torching a house: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1769761897358750158 ; also https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772698517145796872
[71] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1745063720080793681; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1745491460525375587; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1748075046294163757 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1746696846817325288 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1746685595366125951; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1745973511301026092; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1749272544975229438; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1749593678861984045 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1750782757326795020 ; https://twitter.com/NABEELRAJAB/status/1750228266193969448; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1750627849948532763 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1750540763413287350 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1749795644532035602 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1750197302579343870 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1753422534555427299 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1753536164085010674 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1754091912040968444 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1754553057696784519 ; a long list of
additional videos here: https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1755973157515669708 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1757094979460067773 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1760040514915553463 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1759307381169701366 ; https://twitter.com/NaksBilal/status/1761825956950421858; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1761363322182516924 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1761360983174316281 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1762212629576069120 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1762543392997703956; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1766193632661447085 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1766178422361821416 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1766491956090155333 ; more videos and images here: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1766912143444656544 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1767985211747270834 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1769374467732767049 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1769865723843588124 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1771544787264409759 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1773452109532323868 ; https://twitter.com/LensVeritatis/status/1774471148430111088 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1776049466656579639 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1764936131718635713 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1779619958126784854 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1782212698953990238 ; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1785074198844453223 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1789942261209325757 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1789587485955072233 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1791167455731048886 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1792923935824048336 ; https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1792940664193470525 ; https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1793446435935211536 ; https://x.com/_NicoleNonya/status/1793684246512746500 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794346305571184910 ; https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1794102771026723277 ; https://x.com/KhaledYousry22/status/1795879315155910854 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1796228939251343652 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798801765845897336 ; https://x.com/KhaledYousry22/status/1800979476961984982 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801359465419055210 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801379681423245664 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801700803251695684 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801966059886399640 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801973888529678428 ; https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1802266606564675886
[72] https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1800822593777545634 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1802060863731319253
[73] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1749956154975744455 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1753536576791970148 ; https://twitter.com/EmilioMorenatti/status/1759669676810904020 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1766582097404137482 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1779481518580125800
[77] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1760407071747719357 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1761039679212671105
[78] https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1760359033095991623 ; https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1760640827720638639 ; https://twitter.com/wattheactualfuq/status/1760775215418634685; https://twitter.com/bernstein_ariel/status/1761809205147717664 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1762207301920776365 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1762201439785410805 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1763708246227865971 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1763708570514657704 ; https://twitter.com/Mistaclim/status/1764883823857218031 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1765392369531187549 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1766016416371630284 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772748840388419826 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772964108121313599/ ; https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-play-with-gaza-womens-underwear-online-posts-2024-03-28/ ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1775564585329729787 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1776717745045803169 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794433825591738491 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1798797098801824165 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801978091654279226
[79] https://twitter.com/grapesofwhat/status/1761332020402118799; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1762556002711289987 ; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1763682787054211217 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1782216567431872723 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1784575504667890128 ; https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1797962472399532407
[80] https://www.haaretz.co.il/food/2024-02-13/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018d-82c5-d6dc-ab9f-cffd1ebc0000
[82] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1743296706576269446; https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1739728935779234254 ; also the similar https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1801625890633159060
[84] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/21/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#the-israeli-militarys-top-lawyer-reports-some-troop-conduct-that-crosses-the-criminal-threshold ; https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-21/ty-article/.premium/top-idf-lawyer-some-israeli-soldiers-have-engaged-in-criminal-behavior-during-war/0000018d-cbb5-d6e9-a38d-fbbdc0610000
[85] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-03-11/ty-article/0000018e-2c36-d682-a9df-edbe2df50000 ; https://www.calcalist.co.il/local_news/article/rjytktkra
[90] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-sara-netanyahu-advisor-torture-gazans-rant
[93] https://www.ice.co.il/social/news/article/988380 “Gaza, you daughter of a bitch, Gaza, you Black, you garbage can,
Gaza, you whore…”
[99] https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1782029404916285857
; https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%96%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A8 ; also: https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1795012044699079164
[103] https://x.com/Ahmad_tibi/status/1801934557723419012;
https://x.com/z_00pIz/status/1802321259188920411
[107] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1769159335299485732 ; also https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1784224046562816158
[109] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1768989430084227090 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rk3n9V-aQs ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZOJYA7EOg
[110] https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/media/2023-12-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018c-7d09-de44-a9be-7d9d47790000
[112] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1768045698350465445 ; https://twitter.com/bokeralmog/status/1782777513678196933 ; see also https://x.com/IsraelGaley/status/1799689832257749110
[116] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/three-sons-hamas-leader-haniyeh-killed-israeli-airstrike-2024-04-10/
[118] https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1794826941209702699 ; also https://x.com/idanlandau/status/1794956280504930630
[120] https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1757326323712774650 ; https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1762480372963508266 ; https://twitter.com/mekomit/status/1768220704833446359
[123] https://www.inn.co.il/flashes/981582; https://www.mako.co.il/news-diplomatic/2024_q1/Article-ad64e47a0ed2e81026.htm; https://www.zman.co.il/newsletter/2024-03-12/; https://www.jdn.co.il/news/2157725/; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-3344-d5ad-addf-7f5518fc0000; https://chabad.info/news/war/1063572/; https://news.walla.co.il/item/3649971 ; https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/on-the-line/2024-03-13/ty-article/.highlight/0000018e-32df-d897-a58f-b7dfad0b0000
[126] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-24/ty-article-magazine/.premium/were-not-only-here-to-fuck-hamas-how-israeli-militarism-took-over-online-dating/0000018e-60aa-d27e-a7af-7aeec5b00000
[127] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-24/ty-article-magazine/.premium/were-not-only-here-to-fuck-hamas-how-israeli-militarism-took-over-online-dating/0000018e-60aa-d27e-a7af-7aeec5b00000
[128] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-24/ty-article-magazine/.premium/were-not-only-here-to-fuck-hamas-how-israeli-militarism-took-over-online-dating/0000018e-60aa-d27e-a7af-7aeec5b00000
[129] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-24/ty-article-magazine/.premium/were-not-only-here-to-fuck-hamas-how-israeli-militarism-took-over-online-dating/0000018e-60aa-d27e-a7af-7aeec5b00000
[130] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/09/gaza-civilians-detained-israel/ ; https://twitter.com/YinonMagal/status/1754505872753979498 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1755342772670804416 ; https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/world/middleeast/unrwa-gaza-detention-israel.html ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1772380808327618560 ; an UNRWA report mentioned 1,506 detainees released through a
single crossing point by April 4: https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/content/resources/summary_on_detention_and_alleged_ill-treatmentupdated.pdf ; https://x.com/KhaledYousry22/status/1793359108147728835 . In late May the number was supposedly 4,000, with more than
1,500 released, which seems like an undercount in light of the UNRWA number
above: https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-27/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-ba6b-dfb0-a7af-fb7b4c150000. Gaza’s Government Media Office estimates
that at least 5,000 citizens were detained: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6342/Hostages-of-Israeli-revenge-in-the-Gaza-Strip:-Testimonies-of-100-released-Palestinian-detainees-reveal-crimes-of-torture,-cruel-treatment
[131] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-12-10/ty-article/.premium/0000018c-542b-df2f-adac-fe2f4bf80000 ; but see also the
numbers here: https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-27/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-ba6b-dfb0-a7af-fb7b4c150000
[132] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/01/a-palestinian-poets-perilous-journey-out-of-gaza
[133] https://www.mekomit.co.il/20-%d7%a9%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%a2%d7%9c-%d7%94%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%9b%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9e%d7%99-%d7%a9%d7%96%d7%96-%d7%9e%d7%95%d6%bc%d7%9b%d6%b6%d6%bc%d7%94-%d7%90%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%97%d7%99%d7%9d/ ;
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1747273886264443173 ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1756754492790349978 ; https://twitter.com/marwasf/status/1762590590737207562 ; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-10-23/ty-article/.premium/0000018b-5be6-d473-a5fb-7fefd68c0000 ; https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1783737956026454347 ; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1785941575157067916 ; https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1786857586098155534 ; https://x.com/EuroMedHR/status/1794349445498421495 ; https://x.com/ihcentoo/status/1797391918172659737. Many accounts here: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6342/Hostages-of-Israeli-revenge-in-the-Gaza-Strip:-Testimonies-of-100-released-Palestinian-detainees-reveal-crimes-of-torture,-cruel-treatment ; https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6367/Killing,-torture,-and-injections-of-unknown-substances:-Intl.-community-must-act-on-Israeli-violations-of-Gaza-detainees
[134] https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6342/Hostages-of-Israeli-revenge-in-the-Gaza-Strip:-Testimonies-of-100-released-Palestinian-detainees-reveal-crimes-of-torture,-cruel-treatment
[136] https://twitter.com/brown_johnbrown/status/1743021596682371453 ; https://twitter.com/Mistaclim/status/1753512387322474545
; https://twitter.com/NourNaim88/status/1753044873974849578 ; https://twitter.com/arixegal/status/1759978751524212926 ; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1780281723424547297
[139] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-12-06/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018c-3b9b-d11b-a3bf-ffbb16d80000; https://twitter.com/KhalilAsslan/status/1741926482463633866 ; https://twitter.com/MustafaBarghou1/status/1761325667252092984
[141] https://www.mekomit.co.il/20-%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%99-%D7%A9%D7%96%D7%96-%D7%9E%D7%95%D6%BC%D7%9B%D6%B6%D6%BC%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9D/
[142] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-03-07/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-1240-df16-a58e-1ffedcf70000 ;also 2 more here: https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1781018819961454697 ; and one more here: https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1789930610783408368
[143] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-28/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-bbb6-dc1f-abef-ffbf9de50000 ; for examples
see: https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1781018819961454697 ; https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1789930610783408368
[144] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-06-03/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-dab1-db0d-a98f-def9186a0000
[146] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-01-02/ty-article/.premium/0000018c-c6e1-d6c4-ab8d-e7f5fd670000
[148] https://www.mekomit.co.il/20-%d7%a9%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%a2%d7%9c-%d7%94%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%9b%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9e%d7%99-%d7%a9%d7%96%d7%96-%d7%9e%d7%95%d6%bc%d7%9b%d6%b6%d6%bc%d7%94-%d7%90%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%97%d7%99%d7%9d/
[149] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-02-01/ty-article/.premium/0000018d-5f18-d0af-a3af-7fbcea840000
[150] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-02/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-3945-d516-afbf-ffc73dd00000
[153] https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/content/resources/summary_on_detention_and_alleged_ill-treatmentupdated.pdf
[154] https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/content/resources/summary_on_detention_and_alleged_ill-treatmentupdated.pdf
[155] https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/content/resources/summary_on_detention_and_alleged_ill-treatmentupdated.pdf
[158] https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6367/Killing,-torture,-and-injections-of-unknown-substances:-Intl.-community-must-act-on-Israeli-violations-of-Gaza-detainees
[162] https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6367/Killing,-torture,-and-injections-of-unknown-substances:-Intl.-community-must-act-on-Israeli-violations-of-Gaza-detainees ; see also below.
[163] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-04-04/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-9ac3-dd2b-ad9f-dadb900f0000
[166] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-28/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-bbb6-dc1f-abef-ffbf9de50000
[168] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html
[170] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html ; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-05-10/ty-article/0000018f-622a-d9a0-a38f-ee2f1f8e0000
[171] https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-04-04/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-9ac3-dd2b-ad9f-dadb900f0000
[172] https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/middleeast/israel-top-court-sde-teiman-hearing-intl/index.html ; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-06-05/ty-article/.premium/0000018f-e1b1-db29-a3ef-edbb381c0000 ; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-06-11/ty-article/00000190-0719-da02-a1dc-ff5b23460000
[173] https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/un-human-rights-office-opt-disturbing-reports-north-gaza-mass-detentions-ill-treatment-and-enforced-disappearances-possibly-thousands-palestinians
[174] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against
[175] https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6342/Hostages-of-Israeli-revenge-in-the-Gaza-Strip:-Testimonies-of-100-released-Palestinian-detainees-reveal-crimes-of-torture,-cruel-treatment (p. 45).
[177] https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1772749440027074609 ; https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1773318803075531136. In late March, a
woman claimed (almost certainly falsely) that IDF soldiers had raped
Palestinians in context of a raid into al-Shifa hospital but the account was
removed and both a former
editor at al-Jazeera (that published it) and the woman’s brother stated it was
false. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mN1SRUx0R8 ; https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240324-women-in-gaza-are-being-raped-and-this-is-not-being-investigated-or-reported/ ; https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1771585576963092757 ; https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/by115igc0a
; https://www.timesofisrael.com/al-jazeera-report-alleging-idf-rapes-in-shifa-hospital-retracted/