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Look closely. Mohammed is missing both legs, one entire hand and most of his other hand. Israel is dismembering children in Gaza with US bombs. https://t.co/7tIQ4CQmt2
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What do you call a country that does this to children?
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A lot of people in the US don’t seem to know what Israel did to Palestinians before Oct 7. Here is a quick rundown.🧵
@mamoun_linda - Linda Mamoun
In 1948-1949, Israel killed more than 13,000 Palestinians, destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages, towns and cities, and forced 750,000 Palestinians out of their homes. The people in Gaza and the West Bank are the descendants of these displaced refugees.
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In 1967, Israel forced another 300,000 Palestinians from their homes and began its military occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula.
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Under Israeli occupation hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced into overcrowded refugee camps or enclosed villages with no ability to move freely.
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In Gaza, Israel confined 2.3 million people to a strip of land about 25 miles long, bounded by the sea on one side and electrified walls and fences on the other. Israel’s 20-year siege of Gaza restricted access to basic imports & denied people in Gaza freedom of entry and exit.
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In the West Bank, Israel confined Palestinians to walled-off cities and villages surrounded on all sides by heavily armed Israeli settlements with entry and exit controlled by a vast series of electronic fences and walls, checkpoints and surveillance towers.
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Since 1967, Israel has imprisoned 40% of Palestinian men for at least a week along with more than 10,000 Palestinian women and 13,000 children.
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Since 2001, Israel has held 100,000 Palestinians in administrative detention without charge or recourse. Over the same time period, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel logged 1,400 cases of severe torture, with only 2 criminal investigations and no convictions.
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Israel has total control over Palestinian water access, refusing requests to build new infrastructure and limiting most Palestinians to less than the WHO standard for water access while illegal Israeli settlements are awash in water for gardens, swimming pools & large-scale farms.
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Altogether, Israeli bombings and attacks have killed more than 60,000 civilians and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes in wars against Lebanon, Gaza and other neighboring countries in 1978, 1982, 2008, 2014 and 2021.
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Outside of any wars or bombings, Israel has demolished 60,000 Palestinian homes as a means of collective punishment and controlling space for illegal Israeli settlements.
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In spite of all this, most Palestinians never picked up a weapon of any kind while resisting 75 years of violence, even as Israeli soldiers have relentlessly fired live weapons at protestors, journalists and medics, killing tens of thousands of civilians. All this before Oct 7.
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Short excerpt from interview with Israeli soldier - June, 2009 How long were you in the army? Three years. They kicked me out before entering the fourth year. We were in Gaza Street. Street? Stripe? Strip. Strip. It was awful. The orders were to break legs and arms. This is exactly what my colleagues did. We had also live bullets and rubber bullets. It wasn't so pleasant. You used this ammunition against civilians? I never used ammunition against civilians. I never did, but my colleagues did. We had also bats, like baseball bats. It's not nice to say but the soldiers were abusing the civilians. Sometimes they cuffed them, they tightened them, they tied their hands back, and their legs. They dropped them into an open trunk. They beat their heads with bats. Once, I remember, they dribbled a man’s head like how you dribble a basketball -- Tuk! Tuk! Tuk! Tuk! Tuk! -- it was terrible. I think after this, I think the Arab died or he became an invalid for good. Why did they do that? Why? Because they were after blood. I don't remember. You don't remember what in particular provoked them? I never saw the justification to do such things. I don't think there is any justification, I agree, but I was wondering in their minds, what they…. In their minds, they saw an Arab. A good Arab is a dead Arab. It's good to abuse them. It’s good to show them who is the boss. Where did this happen? It was, I think, in Jabaliya. I'm not sure. There were a few refugees’ camps. In Jabaliya? I think so. I'm not sure. I was in a few refugees’ camps. I'll tell you more than this. I didn't want to know. I didn't want to know where I was, what's happening. I was pretending to be a wave on the sea, not noticing the battleships sailing by. That was my shield against the things that happened. I pretended like I was totally passive. But it was at a mosque that this happened. I saw more war crimes than you can even imagine. They were terrible things. I blew the whistle and the army called me a troublemaker but I am not a troublemaker. I am a troubleshooter.