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A Palestinian child was killed and at least 4 were injured in a combined attack by settler militias and the army in the village of Jiljilyya ( جلجليّا ) east of Ramallah. In addition, Palestinians residing in the village documented settlers stealing hundreds of sheep heads and tractors during the attack. The army arrested at least 3 Palestinian sheep owners.

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Israel is running a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Hell on Earth, extensively documented a reality of extreme violence, starvation, and torture. Now, in a major @nytimes investigation, journalist @NickKristof published terrible testimonies concerning sexual violence and the use of sodomy as a tool of interrogation and humiliation by Israeli forces. Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and abuse in every facility where they are held. These abusive practices are fully backed by the political leadership, which openly boasts about the harsh prison conditions. Some inmates are subjected to severe sexual assaults. At least 88 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhumane conditions, violence, starvation, and the denial of medical treatment. Despite the extensive evidence, media investigations, and reports issued by Israeli and international organisations documenting torture in Israeli prisons, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to commit crimes against the Palestinian people. Links to the full report “Welcome to Hell” >> https://btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell and “Living Hell” >> https://btselem.org/publications/202601_living_hell

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B'Tselem, March 4, 2025 | Since Saturday, 28 February, under cover of the ongoing Israeli-American attack on Iran, Israel has killed ten people in the Gaza Strip.

As the assault began, Israel sealed all crossings into Gaza, halting all entry of food, medical supplies, and humanitarian workers. On Tuesday, Israel reopened only one crossing, Kerem Shalom. Only 16 trucks entered that day, 14 carrying humanitarian aid and two with goods for local markets.

Israel continues to enforce the humanitarian crisis:

Since the so-called ceasefire was declared, it has kept most crossings closed while imposing draconian restrictions on the transfer of food, as well as equipment and personnel essential for residents’ survival. About 22,000 wounded and sick people in Gaza still need urgent medical evacuation.

According to the World Food Programme, at least 1.6 million people, 77% of Gaza’s population, are suffering from acute food insecurity, including more than 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women who are expected to face acute malnutrition by next month.

The overwhelming majority of Gaza’s two million residents remain displaced, living for over two years now in unbearable conditions, in tents or damaged buildings.

Since 10 October 2025, when the so-called ceasefire was announced, the Israeli army has killed 631 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The international community is enabling Israel’s policies and the ongoing genocide.

The genocide in Gaza is not over.

source: B'Tselem בצלם‎'s Post sur Facebook

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Guardian promotes Oct. 7th Massacre erasure

Days after Oct. 7th, 2023, the Guardian began centering the story on the putatively 'disproportionate' Israeli military response to the Hama

by Adam Levick

One example of this revisionist history of the massacre recently appeared in a op-ed at the outlet (“Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US“, Nov. 18th), written by Yuli Novak, executive director of B’tselem.  Novak, though an Israeli, opposes Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state, and once wrote a column appearing to justify Palestinian terror.

Though the headline of her column, as well as the thrust of the text, promotes the genocide libel, what most stands out is her decision throughout the piece to intentionally erase Hamas, and their mass slaughter of Jews in Oct. 2023, from the equation.

Indeed, the word “Hamas” doesn’t appear at all on Novak’s nearly 900 word piece – consistent with the outlet’s broader coverage of the war, in which readers would be forgiven for believing that the terror group disappeared after Oct. 7th.  In contrast, the word “genocide” is used 15 times in the op-ed.

One of the only sentences even alluding to the terror group’s savage attack is here, early in her piece:

A strange kind of calm has settled over Israel in the weeks since the Gaza ceasefire was declared. The sirens stopped. The hostages who survived the 7 October attack and nearly two years in captivity came home.

Novak’s piece, in its desire to push the antizionist narrative regardless of the facts, completely erases the 1,200, mostly Jewish civilians, who were murdered during the ”attack”, the terror group’s widespread use of sadistic torture of, and sexual violence against, women, girls and men, both on Oct. 7th, and in the tunnels where they held hundreds of hostages.

Hamas’s Oct. 7th massacre, their subsequent widespread use of human shields, which has included the use of hospitals and other civilian structures to store weapons and launch attacks, their 350 miles of terror tunnels (often under civilian buildings), as well as their nihilistic decision not to surrender, despite the Gaza civilian casualty count, is similarly erased when, in an attempt to sell her libel, Novak writes:

Hospitals and journalists were systematically targeted…Infrastructure demolished. Israeli officials openly stated the goal: to destroy Gaza and make it uninhabitable. By textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of people not for who they are as individuals, but because they are members of a group marked for destruction.

The IDF’s goal, of course, was, and is, to destroy Hamas, a military objective that any nation would pursue when faced with a terror attack that’s the equivalent, in terms of deaths per population, of thirteen 9/11s.

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B’Tselem ( בְּצֶלֶם /بتسيلم )– The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories - the website of one of the two Israeli NGOs calling Israel's actions in Gaza and Palestine a " GENOCIDE ":

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'Unequivocal': Israeli Human Rights Orgs Describe Gaza Assault as 'Genocide' for the First Time

Yuli Novak (2nd-R), an Israeli activist with B'Tselem, speaks during a press conference organized by Human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights in Jerusalem on July 28, 2025.

(Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

As Israel's military campaign in Gaza inflicts unprecedented levels of human destruction, two leading Israeli human rights organizations have at last called their nation's actions in the enclave a "genocide."

Many international human rights groups—such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch—have long described Israel's 22-month assault on Gaza in such grave terms, as have several bodies within the United Nations.

In two reports released Monday, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel became the first within the country to reach the same conclusion.

B'Tselem:

Over 59,000 Palestinians have been directly killed—the overwhelming majority uninvolved civilians—since October 2023, according to official estimates. However, indirect deaths due to hunger and disease likely put the death toll much higher.

B'Tselem's report states that "Israel is destroying Gaza's food system and using food as a weapon against the Palestinian people."

A blockade on food entering the strip has contributed to mass starvation that has resulted in at least 127 deaths, including 85 children since, October 2023. Half of those deaths have occurred over the past month.

According to a statement from UNICEF on Sunday: "The entire population of over two million people in Gaza is severely food insecure. One out of every three people has not eaten for days, and 80% of all reported deaths by starvation are children."

Virtually all of Gaza's population of 2 million has been displaced, with 92% of residential buildings destroyed or damaged. The people of Gaza overwhelmingly live without water and electricity as infrastructure has been destroyed.

"Soldiers who served in the Strip have testified that the systematic demolition of homes, public buildings, infrastructure, and farmland...has become a goal in and of itself," the report said.

Meanwhile, Gaza's health infrastructure lies in ruin. "In the very first weeks of the assault," B'Tselem's report said, "most hospitals and clinics in Gaza could no longer provide even basic medical care."

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The report cites evidence of intent from Israel's leaders to use mass destruction to hasten the removal of Palestinians, saying that "Beginning in May 2025, senior Israeli officials explicitly declared Gaza's ethnic cleansing as a central objective of the war, stating that the destruction of the Strip and Israel's control over humanitarian aid were means of realizing this goal."

The report quotes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said in early May: "We are destroying more and more homes, and Gazans have nowhere to return to. The only inevitable outcome will be the wish of Gazans to emigrate outside of the Gaza Strip."

It also quotes Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, also an official in Israel's defense ministry, who last week hosted a gathering in the Israeli parliament to discuss the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza in order to make room for Israeli settlers.

"Gaza will be completely destroyed," Smotrich said in May. "Its civilians will be concentrated... and from there, they'll depart in large numbers to third countries."

Earlier this month, Israel's defense minister Israel Katz revealed plans to corral more than 600,000 Palestinians into a so-called "humanitarian city"—a tent city built on the ruins of Rafah—which they would not be allowed to leave except to go to other countries. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described it as "a concentration camp."

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Full article and audio version HERE.

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