(1948) Nakba - During the 1948 Palestine war, 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by Irgun and Hagenah militia groups under the orders of Jewish Agency leader and future prime minister David Ben-Gurion, orchestrated in what was called Plan Dalet. 1000 were killed in the year after the war, when Palestinian refugees tried to return home.
On November 30, 2023 +972 Magazine published anonymous interviews with IDF sources, which revealed the following information.
Targeting high rises - The IDF refers to high-rises adn residential buildings as "power targets". According to three intellegence sources the purpose of targeting high-rises is harm Palestinian civil society in order to exert “civil pressure” and “lead civilians to put pressure on Hamas. This is in accordance with the Dahiya_doctrine, a strategy developed during the Lebanon War involving the destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to pressure opposing forces.” (𓃠) The IDF also targets what they categorize as “family homes.” in order to assassinate a single resident suspected of being a Hamas or Islamic Jihad operative.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/12/israels-destruction-multistorey-buildings-extensive-wanton-and-unjustified/
The abandonment of Roof knocking - Roof knocking is when a small initial strike alerts residents to evacuate their building. According to Airforce chief of staff Omer Tishler, since octobor 7th Israel has abandoned the practice of roof knocking in areas "where there is an enemy",
There are “cases in which we shell based on a wide cellular pinpointing of where the target is, killing civilians. This is often done to save time, instead of doing a little more work to get a more accurate pinpointing,”
“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas... Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us. If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,”
“Hamas is everywhere in Gaza; there is no building that does not have something of Hamas in it, so if you want to find a way to turn a high-rise into a target, you will be able to do so... “it didn’t work. As someone who has followed Hamas, I heard firsthand how much they did not care about the civilians and the buildings that were taken down. Sometimes the army found something in a high-rise building that was related to Hamas, but it was also possible to hit that specific target with more accurate weaponry. The bottom line is that they knocked down a high-rise for the sake of knocking down a high-rise.”
“The targets were designed with the assumption that high-rises would be evacuated of people, so when we were working on [compiling the targets], there was no concern whatsoever regarding how many civilians would be harmed; the assumption was that the number would always be zero,”
“This would mean there would be a total evacuation [of the targeted buildings], which takes two to three hours, during which the residents are called [by phone to evacuate], warning missiles are fired, and we also crosscheck with drone footage that people are indeed leaving the high-rise,”
In 2002 Israel bombed the home of Salah Mustafa Muhammad Shehade, then the head of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, killing him, his wife Eman, his 14-year-old daughter Laila, and 14 other civilians, including 11 children.
In 2014, During Operation Protective Edge, 606 civilians, a quarter of the civilian deaths during the 51 days of fighting, were members of families whose homes were bombed. (𓃠,𓃠)
On Oct. 9, Israel shelled at least three multi-story buildings, as well as an open flea market on a crowded street in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, killing at least 69 people. (𓃠)
On Oct. 10 2023, Israel bombed the Babel Building in Gaza without warning, killing 10 people including three journalists. (𓃠)
On Oct. 25, the 12-story Al-Taj residential building in Gaza City was bombed to the ground, killing the families living inside it without warning, killing about 120 people. (𓃠)
On Oct. 31, the eight-story Al-Mohandseen residential building in Nuseirat Refugee Camp was bombed without warning, killing an estimated 150 people Between 30 and 45 bodies were reportedly recovered from the ruins on the first day. (𓃠,𓃠)
“When the general directive becomes ‘Collateral Damage 5,’ that means we are authorized to strike all targets that will kill five or less civilians — we can act on all target files that are five or less,”
“In the past, we did not regularly mark the homes of junior Hamas members for bombing... In my time, if the house I was working on was marked Collateral Damage 5, it would not always be approved [for attack].” Such approval, he said, "would only be received if a senior Hamas commander was known to be living in the home... To my understanding, today they can mark all the houses of [any Hamas military operative regardless of rank]... That is a lot of houses. Hamas members who don’t really matter for anything live in homes across Gaza. So they mark the home and bomb the house and kill everyone there.”
On Oct. 10, the Israeli Air Force bombed an apartment building in Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, killing 40 people. (𓃠) Amnesty investigated the attack and discovered that a Hamas member lived on one of the upper floors of the building, but was not present at the time of the attack. (𓃠)
On Oct. 22 Israel bombed the home of Palestinian journalist Deir al-Balah, killing 21 people including his father, brothers, sisters, niece and all of their children.
on november 18th 2023 israel bombed the Al Kakhura School
https://www.srugim.co.il/850244-%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94-%D7%A6%D7%94%D7%9C-%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A7-%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%A2
https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-educational-building-gaza-destroyed-144952127.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-strikes-on-gaza-homes-killed-mostly-civilians-report-says/
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64292
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/
bombing places they tell them to go
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-new-evidence-of-unlawful-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-causing-mass-civilian-casualties-amid-real-risk-of-genocide/
Adapted from Eye on Palestine:
A recent investigation by EuroMedHR revealed that on December 4, 2023, Israeli drones deliberately killed 12 civilians and injured three others in Gaza City.
The attacks targeted the Abu El-Enin family, including women and children, who had been displaced. The killings occurred without combat, following Israeli orders to evacuate. Among the victims were 5 women, 4 children, and 3 men, including elderly and young individuals. The attack hit as the family was evacuating their home in Al-Daraj neighborhood, west of Gaza City, due to artillery shelling.
You can see the remnants of their corpses scattered across the ground
“We are still counting the numbers and the people,” Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera. “We are still trying to find the people under the rubble. Maybe at the end of that, tomorrow, we can talk about the exact numbers and maybe some names.”
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/140-kids-11-un-staff-killed-gaza/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israel-admits-jabalia-refugee-camp/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/pro-israel-propaganda-continues/
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