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97 per cent of Gaza’s animal wealth destroyed by Israeli bombing, starvation, and looting by Euromed Human Rights Monitor

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Palestinian Territory – Israel has destroyed nearly all animal wealth in the Gaza Strip, approximately 97 per cent, through bombing and systematic starvation, including working animals that served as the last means of transport amid fuel shortages and limited public mobility.

The destruction of animal wealth coincides with the bulldozing of thousands of acres of farmland as part of a deliberate policy to starve the population, destroy food sources, and inflict severe physical and psychological suffering, all of which are fundamental components of the ongoing crime of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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Inside the Hamas unit fighting Israeli-armed gangs that loot aid and facilitate displacement in Gaza by Tareq S. Hajjaj and Faris Giacaman

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The Israeli military is arming gangs to combat Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Thursday. The revelation comes to light after right-wing Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman accused Netanyahu on Israeli public broadcaster Kan yesterday of arming a gang of hundreds of men in Rafah as a counterweight to Hamas influence in the Strip. The Prime Minister’s office responded by saying that it was combating the Palestinian resistance group “in various ways, on the recommendation of all heads of the security establishment.” 

Later, Netanyahu officially confirmed the reports in a video posted on X. “On the advice of security officials, we activated clans in Gaza that oppose Hamas,” the Israeli Prime Minister said. “What’s wrong with that? It only saves the lives of Israeli soldiers.”

… Mondoweiss spoke to several members of the Arrow Unit, in addition to a high-level security source in the resistance, who detailed Hamas’s continuing efforts to combat Israel’s armed proxy groups in the Strip. Mondoweiss also spoke to the heads of several clans in Gaza regarding Israel’s attempts to exploit the security vacuum it created by backing clan leaders as an alternative to Hamas rule.

… At the time, members of the Arrow Unit told Mondoweiss that they would prevent these families from arming themselves, as they would then be co-opted by Israel in service of its genocidal goals.

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Israeli forces turn UN-run schools, shelter centres into settings for brutal crimes against civilians by Euro-med Human Rights Monitor

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Geneva – The Israeli occupation continues to violate schools that have been converted into shelters for tens of thousands of displaced people, committing grave violations including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, and intimidation of civilians, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued Sunday.

Euro-Med Monitor documented the Israeli forces’ raid on Al-Rafi’i School in the Gaza Strip’s Jabalia refugee camp, which houses thousands of displaced people, and the arrest of males as young as age 15. Israeli soldiers forced themales to strip down to their underwear and remain this way, then took them to an unknown location while forcefully displacing women amidst gunfire.

The rights organisation highlighted the Israeli forces’continued targeting of shelter centres, most of which wereestablished in schools managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and bear the United Nations logo. These centres have been targeted since the early days of Israel’s genocidalwar on the Gaza Strip, which began on 7 October.

The Israeli military attacks have taken multiple forms, Euro-Med Monitor noted. Initially, shelter centres were repeatedly targeted by aerial bombardment, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and the injury of hundreds more. This occurred on several occasions at Al-Fakhoura School and dozens of other schools in Gaza and its northern areas, as well as in Khan Yunis in the southern part of the Strip and Al-Bureij in the central area.

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State Archive Error Shows Israeli Censorship Guided by Concerns Over National Image by Ofer Aderet

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It turns out that Israel’s first agriculture minister, Aharon Zisling, who was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, said in 1948… “Let us say that instances of rape occurred in Ramle. I can forgive instances of rape, but I will not forgive other acts.” The next statement, which was not blacked out, now gains additional significance, and explains what the minister considered an act more serious than rape: “When they enter a city and forcibly remove jewelry from women and from their necks – that is a very serious matter.”

…Twenty pages later, in the same discussion… Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion who was speaking. In the censored version he said: “I am against the wholesale demolition of villages.” Now, the full statement is revealed. It turns out that he then added: “But there are places that constituted a great danger and constitute a great danger, and we must wipe them out. But this must be done responsibly, with consideration before the act.”

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Was Israeli Looting in ’48 Part of a Broader Policy to Expel Arabs? by Benny Morris

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We include this article despite no mention of the word ‘genocide’ because we believe the description of the events, in tandem with mass killing and causing serious bodily and mental harm to the indigenous Palestinian people, contributed directly to their destruction as a group, and was intended to perpetuate this destruction.

… Raz goes farther, arguing that Ben-Gurion not only encouraged the robbery and plunder as part of a policy to rid the country of its Arab residents… more importantly, to tie the “people of Israel” to the phenomenon and thereby render it an “accomplice to the crime” and a partner to the policy of uprooting the Arabs from the country. At the practical level, this partnership was translated into public support for the government’s policy of preventing the displaced from returning to their homes… But the plunder of the lands and their transfer to the ownership of the Jewish community, the cultivation of the lands by kibbutzim and moshavim, the destruction or settlement of Jews in the villages and the settlement of Jews in abandoned homes in the cities with new immigrants and the forcible prevention of their return by IDF soldiers – these were the principal causes of the refugees’ severance from their country (“There is nowhere and nothing to return to”). Moreover, they underlay the opposition of the hundreds of kibbutzim and moshavim (associated with Mapai and Mapam) and of tens of thousands of urban settlers to the return of the refugees. Here lay the firm basis for the collaboration between “the people” and its government in regard to preventing that return.

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