Civilian Deaths
Contrary to popular belief, the Gaza conflict did not start on October 7. Palestine has been occupied by Zionists since the Nakba, which displaced 750,000 Palestinians and killed 15,000. Over 200 Palestinians were killed by the IDF in random assaults in 2022 alone.
Legality - To dispense with the apologia, in most wars there are war criminals. If the world worked the way it does on paper, the few Hamas fighters filmed shooting civilian drivers would be triad along with the whole Likud government.
On Oct. 7 Hamas attacked occupied territory, which is legal per the fourth Geneva convention as armed rebellion. They killed 373 military personnel from bases across the Gaza border. Hamas hit bases including those responsible for civilian airstrikes, such as in the Erez crossing complex. Not to mention those host to soldiers responsible for casually sniping children.
The operation was called Al Aqsa Flood, in reference to the desecration of Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, which was stormed by dozens of illegal settlers who performed a Talmudic ritual in it. Witnesses report that police prevented young Palestinians from entering the mosque, under the guise of an age restriction, while forcing Palestinians to shut down their stores in order for Jewish prayers to take place.
Hamas' objective was to liberate hostages - In 2011 Hamas traded Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit with Israel in exchange for the release of 1000 Palestinian detainees. It's most likely that Hamas sought to achieve the same thing in exchange for some of the thousands of Palestinian civilians detained without charge in Israeli prisons. Israel currently has 700 children passing through the system each year. An anonymous figure involved with the case has stated that "Hamas expected this to be a repeat of the Shalit case. They thought that they would kidnap Israelis and that we would cave in.''
Hamas' aim was to take as many hostages as possible to be used as bargaining chips, an objective which would have been undermined by randomly killing civilians. Their official battle plan, obtained by Israel, mentioned nothing about the Nova music festival. Had it been cancelled or moved away from the border, which was considered based on signs of an impending attack, less people would have been caught in the cross fire between Hamas and the IDF.
In an interview with Israel Radio, former hostage Yasmin Porat recalled this to be their prerogative. “They did not abuse us. We were treated very humanely… No one treated us violently... The objective was to kidnap us to Gaza, not to murder us.”
Why all the dead civilians?
So why was I subjected to seeing charred bodies and destroyed cars, you might be asking, and why is such a high percentage of the death toll (1,139) civilians?
Hamas attacked military settlements with grenade launchers and rockets made from pipes. The damage to buildings cars and civilians induced on Oct. 7 could not have been caused by such light rocket fire, but it could have by Apache Helicopters armed with hellfire missiles, as seen being used here, and or Merkava tanks with 120 mm artillery and 7.62 mm machine guns, seen here. As a reporter for i24 put it: “small and quaint homes [were] bombarded or destroyed,” and “well-maintained lawns [were] ripped up by the tracks of an armored vehicle, perhaps a tank.”
Hannibal Directive - The Hannibal Directive is a procedure used by the IDF since the 1986 Lebanon war to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces. According to one version, it says that "the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces..." although the full text has never been published, and until 2003 Israel forbade any discussion of the subject in the press.
According to an anonymous figure involved with the Shalit case: ''They thought that they would kidnap Israelis and that we would cave in. I believe that it will not happen quickly - if at all. The State of Israel has implemented the Hannibal Directive on the whole of the Gaza Strip"
The IDF was ordered to kill civilians - In an interview with Haaretz, Colonel Nof Erez stated that “the Hannibal Directive was apparently applied” and that 7 October “was a mass Hannibal.”
According to an investigation by Ynet at midday Israel’s supreme military command ordered all units to prevent the capture of Israeli citizens “at any cost” – even by firing on them. Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, who set up a hotline to coordinate between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army told Haaretz that as desperation began to set in, “the commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.” A tank battalion commander recalled receiving the same orders when he arrived on the scene, stating in a video interview: “I arrived in Be’eri to see Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram and the first thing he asks me to do is to fire a shell into a house.”
In an interview with Mako, an Apache pilot stated: “I choose targets like that... where I tell myself that the chance that I am shooting here on hostages as well is low.” However, he admitted that his judgment “was not 100%.” The commander of the Apache unit, Lt. Col. E. stated “I understand that we have to shoot here and quickly... Shooting at people in our territory – this is something I never thought I would do.” Reserve pilot Lt. Col. A. stated: “I find myself in a dilemma as to what to shoot at, because there are so many of them.”
Civilian Testimony to Friendly Fire - There are numerous testimonies from survivors who's relatives were killed by friendly fire:
IDF accidentally shoots dead Nahal Oz resident, his family requests he be recognized as a martyr
Survivor Yasmin Porat, who's husband was killed by friendly fire in Be'eri, stated: “I thought to myself, ‘Why are they shooting tank shells into the house?’ And I asked one of the people that was with me, 'Why are they shooting?’ So they explained to me that it was to break the walls, in order to help cleanse the house.”
“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages because there was very, very heavy crossfire.”
According to hostage Danielle Rachiel: “We held our heads down because we automatically knew they’d be suspicious of us, in a small beat-up car… from the same direction the terrorists were coming from. Our forces began shooting at us!”
An Israeli police report admits that the helicopters killed both Hamas fighters and some Israeli concert goers with airstrikes.
Hamas Crossfire - Some civilians may have been shot while security team members hid amongst them.
Revised kill count - The official Israeli death toll from Oct. 7 is 1,139. 373 were security/military, illegally occupying Palestinian land. This leaves us with 766. How many of these were killed by friendly fire is unclear, since Israel has not detailed the ratio on their memorial site, however Haaretz reports that at least 112 were killed by friendly fire at Be'eri alone. Many of those who Israel's site mourns as martyrs were murdered by the very same authority.
Claims of torture
40 beheaded babies - On October 10th Israel tweeted a video claiming that 40 babies were murdered at Kfar Aza Kibbutz. The claim originated from reservist David Ben Zion, speaking to i24's Nicole Zedek. David Ben Zion, is deputy mayor of the Shomron Regional Council for 35 illegal settlements in the West Bank. On Twitter he called for violence against the Palestinian village of Huwara: “Enough talk about building and strengthening the settlements... the deterrence that was lost must return now, there’s no room for mercy.” On Facebook he said: “The village of Huwara should be wiped out, this place is a nest of terror and the punishment should be for everyone,” a clear call for the collective punishment of Palestinians. Despite all this,
Baby pulled out of stomach - A Bedouin woman, Sujud Abu-Rashid, had her baby removed during an emergency caesarean after being shot in the stomach while being driven to the hospital. Although she survived, her baby didn't. This story may have gone on to inspire similar tales fabricated for atrocity propaganda.
The Executive Editor of Indian media channel TV9 wrote on Twitter that a pregnant Israeli woman had her baby dissected from her stomach. The article they sited was about the Sabra and Shatila massacre, and included witness testimony of the same thing being done to a Palestinian woman.
He deleted the tweet then reposted it again without the article link.
ZAKA member Yossi Landau told the press that at House 426 at Kibbutz Be'eri he saw a pregnant woman who's fetus had been cut from her stomach. According to Haaretz, the occupants of House 426 were elderly and did not mention anything about a pregnant woman. Later a ZAKA senior official admitted that the organization knows that the incident was fake.
Morgue worker Shari Mendes claimed to the Daily Mail that a baby was cut out of a pregnant woman, beheaded and then the mother was beheaded. This is despite the fact that the official Israeli list does not include any pregnant women. As a matter of fact most of these can be discredited by looking at the actual list.
Burned baby - Benjemin Netenyahu posted three images on X as proof of dead babies from October. 7.
One of which is an edit of an AI image which used to be a dog.
This image was also sited by Ban Shapiro. The other doesn't appear to show a baby, but a body charred by Israeli Hellfire missiles. One of the picture does in fact show a baby, presumably Mila Cohen, the only baby in the official list of the dead, who was killed in Kibbutz Be'eri by a bullet shot through a door. Yasim Porat testified that IDF tanks fired upon houses in Kibbutz Be'eri to kill Hamas regardless of Israeli civilians in accordance with the Hannibal Directive. Unless Hamas was going around shooting at doors, it's safe to assume that this was friendly fire.
Burning Israeli's alive - Israel's official X account mourned the death of 12 year old Liel Hetzroni: “This little girl’s body was burned so badly that it took forensic archeologists more than six weeks to identify her... All that remains of 12 year old Liel Hetzroni is ash and bone fragments. May her memory be a blessing.” Aviva Klompas claimed on X: “The terrorists massacred all of [the Hetzroni’s], then torched the building.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated on X: “Liel Hetzroni of Kibbutz Be'eri was murdered in her home by Hamas monsters… We’re fighting the most just war: to ensure this can never happen again.”
In an interview with Kan News, Kibbutz Be'eri survivor Yasmin Porat revealed that she could hear Liel Hatzroni screaming before being silenced by two shells from an Israeli helicopter, attempting to target Hamas members: “I heard Liel the whole time, so I know for certain that they were there.. I tried to explain to [the commander] that from somewhere near the kitchen, that’s where I heard the screams coming from. I didn’t see her, but I heard her, and I heard where the screams were coming from. I tried to explain to them where all the hostages were.” Porat said that Hadas Dagan, who survived the same blast later told her... The girl did not stop screaming for all those hours... “She didn’t stop screaming… [but] when those two shells hit, [Liel] stopped screaming. There was silence then.”
On October. 26 Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan called Hamas "animals” while holding a QR code. Scanning the code reveals 8 grisly images of burned bodies and blackened body parts, one showing a pile of completely charred corpses piled into a dumpster. Twelve hours after this showcase, all 8 pictures were removed from the Google Drive.
Babies burned in oven - United Hatzalah President Eli Beer stated at an RJC conference that a baby was cooked in an oven. The Daily Mail reiterated this claim changing it from “baby” to “babies." Two journalists, Chaim Levinson of Haaretz and Yishai Cohen, posted on October. 30, after the case was made public. that they had looked into it. Cohen said that he had contacted officials in the IDF, Shura army base and ZAKA, who said they were not familiar with the incident. A source at United Hatzalah said a volunteer mistakenly interpreted a case at the Shura base and passed the inaccuracy on to Beer.
Babies on washing lines - In an interview with Ishay Coen, Lt. Col. Yaron Buskila claimed that babies had been hung on clotheslines. Coen wrote that he was later informed that the story was inaccurate and deleted the post.
This didn't stop the Mossad from later posting the clip to X.
Woman's Breasts cut off - US SoS Antony Blinken told a story to the US senate about a family mutilated by Hamas: father's eye gouged out, mother's breasts cut off, the girls foot cut off, the boys fingers cut off; then the Hamas members eat at the table. Blinken didn't mention a source, but judging from prior statements made by ZAKA, it's easy to see where he got the story from.
People playing football with lopped off breasts - In Israel's official showcase to select journalists, a video was shown of an anonymous woman claiming she saw Hamas cut a woman's tits off and play football with them. This was repeated by Rabbi Boteach on Piers Morgan.
Woman with knife in pussy - The head of ZAKA’s special unit Haim Otmezgin testified on November. 30 in front of the Women’s Affairs Committee in the Israeli Parliament claiming to possess photos of a naked woman with a sharp object stuck in her crotch. Not a single journalist reported seeing these pictures.
Haim Otmezgin was previously known for smuggling an ancient scroll of the Book of Esther out of Turkey while there under the guise of rescue aid during the 2023 Earthquake.
Israeli child with knife in face - On October 19, 2023 ZAKA's Simcha Greiniman claimed in an interview that he saw two dead Israeli children under the rubble of a house in Kibbutz Be’eri. On November 7 he repeated the story adding that one of the children was 5-6, and the other had a knife lodged in their face. On November 8th former minister Ayelet Shaked posted a video of Greiniman stating that the second child was 3-4 years old, despite that according to Israeli lists, the closest ages of the deceased children in Be’eri are either 12 years old or 10 months old. Be’eri survivor Yasmin Porat has testified that the 10-month-old infant was killed by a shell from an Israeli tank amid gunfire exchanges. Despite this, Greiniman's testimony states that when he entered Be’eri, he “did not find any signs of fighting whatsoever.”
80% of the bodies show signs of torture - ZAKA's Yossi Landau, claimed that “80% of the bodies showed signs of torture. In another interview, the same official said, “70% of the bodies were shot from behind.” Later, he said that “80% were shot in the back.” None of the statistics above were ever officially stated or confirmed.
Claims of rape
According to former hostages interviewed by Channel 12 the atmosphere was so lax that they used to exercise together, however when challenged to an arm wrestle match, a Hamas member insisted on wrapping a towel round his hand to protect her honor. Hamas doesn't even believe in sex before marriage. I can't see them risking eternal damnation to bust a nut. Plus there isn't really any time to do rape during a military operation with the IDF right around the corner. Actual footage from Hamas body cams demonstrates this.
Screams without words - Anat Schwarz is the author of the NYT's 'Screams without words article'. In an interview with Israeli army radio, she talks about how after calling 11 Israeli hospitals for rape victims; the manager of the sexual assault hotline in Israel south, and even people in Kibbutzes attacked, not a single case of rape from Oct. 7 came up.
Kurdish woman - The closest thing to photo evidence of rape Israel presented on their Oct. 7 website is picture of a Kurdish woman taken months before the attack. This picture has been described as one of the many showcased by Israel to select journalists, as proof of Hamas atrocities.
Blood Stain - Naama Levi, the IDF girl with the blood stain on her pants can be seen in a prior video where the stain seems to have appeared after she sat on a floor covered in blood from another soldier's legs. Either that or she shit herself, but definitely wasn't raped otherwise she would have said so after her release.
Gal Abdush - The women in this video couldn't have been raped because she was killed while in a car by a grenade, and was in contact with her sister 4 minutes before they found her body. Her family would go on complain about the inaccuracy, causing the NYT to redact their story on it.
Roz Cohen - In an interview on Oct. 9, IDF operative Roz Cohen claimed to have heard the noises of a gang rape, but chose not to look. Later when talking to the New York Times, he updated his story to include 5 men who killed her with a knife, before continuing to have sex with the body.
Stripped corpses - In "Screams without Words", Spy Legends member, Guy Melamed, claimed to have found the stripped corpses of teenage girls in Kibbutz Be'eri. However the Times would later report on footage from Be'eri, showing the bodies of the three female victims, fully clothed and with no apparent signs of rape”.
85% of corpses naked - Simcha Greiniman claims that “85% of female bodies arriving at Shura morgue were naked. Despite the hundreds of workers at Shura Military Morgue, this detail has not been repeated anywhere.
"Girls who can get pregnant" - On May. 22 Israel's official X account posted a video montage of Hamas body cams showing four IDF hostages. The caption quotes the Hamas members as saying "Here, these are the girls who can get pregnant,”. However, watching the video reveals that last detail to be in captions, added by the translator.
The video's subtitles claim that a Hamas fighter calls one of the girls "beautiful". If you listen closely he can be heard saying in English "No You're not beautiful".
The Washington Post claimed that the word used for girls was Sabaya, (سبايا) meaning female captives, alleging the term to have sexual connotations. In reality the word used was 'Sbyeh,' (صبية) meaning girl, of which the plural happens to be Sabaya, (صبايا) spelled differently in Arabic.
Cochav Elkayam-Levy - The primary source presented to and sited by governments is a report called “The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children”. Both articles by CNN and the BBC site Cochav Elkayam-Levy, who previously worked for Israel's Attorney General’s Office in the International Law Department, where she wrote a paper justifying the use of force feeding upon Palestinian prisoners going on hunger strikes, a practice which would be legalized that same year.
The misleadingly named Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children is not a government entity. It consists solely of Cochav Elkayam Levy, meaning the 9.5 million donated to the so called Deborah institute went directly into her personal bank account. On Dec. 6, Levy was hosted to talk with members of the White House National Security Council to hear “about her work to gather testimony and document evidence of the events of October 7 and develop a comprehensive accounting of gender-based violence committed by Hamas.”
According to an Israeli government official who talked to YNet: “People have disassociated themselves from her because her research is inaccurate... After all, the whole story is that they want to accuse us of spreading fake news, and her methodology was neither good nor accurate... The story about the pregnant woman who had her stomach cut open – a story that was proven to be untrue, and she spread it in the international press... It’s no joke. Little by little, professionals began to distance themselves from her because she is unreliable.”
“Then it started calling itself a civilian commission. People got confused, members of Congress turned to people who work with Israel and asked what it is – ‘Israel built a commission?’ It’s a confusing name. And to the question of whether there is such a thing at all? Is there such a body? The answer is – no. It is the body. She is the civil commission...''
UN Report - On March 4, the United Nations released a report into sexual violence. Despite the report being sited by the AP and The NYT as proof of rape, its authors flatly contradicted the idea that any evidence existed to prove a campaign of rape by Hamas. The report's investigator, Pramila Patten declined to name the victims or perpetrators, and stated there to be no proof other than anonymous witness testimony, reiterating her points in a press conference.
Quotes from the UN Press Conference: “was neither intended nor mandated to be investigative in nature”
“In the medicolegal assessment of available photos and videos, no tangible indications of rape could be identified,”
“While the mission team reviewed extensive digital material depicting a range of egregious violations, no digital evidence specifically depicting acts of sexual violence was found in open sources...”
Chloe Baszanger-Marnay: “On Be’eri, just to clarify, what we found was that there were two allegations we looked into that were unfounded. And they’re very well described in the reports and you’ll recognize them because they were highly publicized in the press. The rest, we could not verify. So… no, we could not verify any sexual violence in Be’eri at this point.”
Patten interjected: “There was an allegation that there were objects like knives that were inserted into the genitalia of a woman… the team reviewed the photos and we did not find anything like that.”
“Inaccurate, unreliable conclusions, forensic conclusions were drawn by untrained volunteer first responders... We give some examples in the report, such as interpreting an anal dilation as anal penetration, when, according to our experts, when [there’s] extensive burn damage, this is what you get – anal dilation. And the position of the body as a result of severe burn damage, again being interpreted as a sign of sexual violence, with spread legs, etc. So that also, it may not be in Be’eri, but it is a fact that we found many instances of unreliable, inaccurate forensic interpretations by untrained people.”
Regarding the supposed perpetrators of sex crimes on Oct. 7, the UN team “did not make any finding as to any pattern because we did not look into attribution...” Patten told reporters.
It was determined by the mission team that the crime scene had been altered by a bomb squad and the bodies moved, explained the separation of the body of the girl from the res of her family.
Claims of hostage abuse
The ICC's warrant claims that it has reasonable grounds to believe that hostages taken from Israel have been kept in inhumane conditions including sexual violence. Reheheheally? Lets look at the evidence.
Hostage Testimony - During her release, former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz can be seen turning back to shake the hand of one of her captors. In response to why she did so, she is quoted as saying: "They treated us gently and they provided for all our needs"
Former hostages Agam Goldstein-Almog and her mother Chen told of being treated like princesses by Hamas. told of how they were allowed to exercise while in captivity. Chen explains that when she arm wrestled with one of her captors, the Hamas member did so with a towel wrapped around his hand, on account of. When asked why, she explained, "because its forbidden for them to touch us... A women for them is very sacred, she is like a queen". Her mother also talked about hoe her and Hamas would argue about allowing her daughter to have multiple boyfriends before marriage, reflecting their conservative attitudes. "They would talk to me about protecting Agam". The captors went at far as to give Agam a "beautiful Arabic name," Salsabila, meaning beautiful water. Agam expressed being flattered with the nickname. Agam Goldstein-Almog would go on to feature in Sheryl Sandberg's "Screams Before Silence" documentary, reporting a second hand story she heard about Hamas holding a gun to a woman's head and forcefully kissing them.
In an interview with Israeli state radio, former hostage Yasmin Porat said: "They do not abuse us, they treat us very humanely... When they see we are nervous, they calm us down."
Israeli children in cages - This is a video of some Arab playing with his nephews, not a Hostage video.
The video was published on Tiktok on October. 4 and shows a man laughing at some of his younger relatives. The account would later post a disclaimer clarifying the fact.
"Abducted pregnant woman" - Sara Netanyahu wrote to Jill Biden about a pregnant hostage giving birth in Gaza. The women in question was released in November, and wasn't pregnant.
There are pregnant women in Israeli custody though.
Israel causing hostage deaths
The illusion that Hamas was killing hostages was created by the fact that whenever Israel bombs and starves Gaza, those effects also apply to those who are meant to serve as Hamas's immunity.
Avoiding hostage release -
Oct. 9: Hamas offers Israel an hostages in exchange for 36 Palestinian women and children.
Oc. 16: A Hamas official says they'd release all Israeli captives in Gaza in Exchange for 6000 Palestinian captives.
Oct. 17: A Hamas official tells NBC News that they'd release all of their captives if Israel agreed to stop bombing Gaza.
Oct. 21: Israel rejects an offer to free 85 year old Yocheved Lifshitz, and her 79-year-old friend.
Oct. 23: In October Israel rejects an offer to free 50 hostages in exchange for fuel.
Oct. 28: Hamas's leader in Gaza offers to release all of the Israeli captives in Gaza in exchange for all of the Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.
Israel forsaking hostages - In a private meeting between Netanyahu and the family of hostages, several extremists, who's families were also taken were invited to convince them that their family remaining hostage is necessary. Ohad Zvi Lapidot told the families: ''There is a chess game, there are pawns...''
Collateral damage
Starvation of POWs - Footage was released of two emaciated Israeli soldiers being held in Gaza. hmm, what might have been going on in Gaza which made it so POWs couldn't get food? OH YEAH, A FAMINE CAUSE BY A BLOCKADE!
Oct. 26: Hamas announces that killed almost 50 of the hostages from October 7th, after Israel sent tanks, troops and armored bulldozers into the enclave.
Nov. 1: Later Hamas announced that seven hostages from October 7 were killed in Israel's bombing of the Jabalia camp.
Nov. 4: Hamas announces that 60 Israeli hostages were were missing because of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7.
SoS incident - After investigating cloth hanging for a building which read SoS, the IDF shot three shirtless Israeli hostages waving white flags, killing two and injuring one, who took shelter in a nearby building to call out "help" in Hebrew, prompting a cease fire to be ordered, before also being shot dead upon leaving the building.
Gas attack - The IDF killed three Israeli hostages in a tunnel with poison gas, one having crushed their fingered trying to escape.
Noa Argamani - On January 15th Hamas released a video of Israeli hostage Noa Agramani explaining how she had been injured from an Israeli airstrike and trapped under rubble for 2 whole days, and that two other hostages had been killed by Israeli strikes, one under rubble and another while in a moving ambulance.
After being released from captivity, Noa Argamani told the G7 embes7: "[Hamas members] did not hit me while I was in captivity, nor did they cut my hair; I was injured by the collapse of a wall caused by an [Israeli] Air Force pilot," she added. "As a victim of 7 October, I refuse to be victimised once again by the media." This was misquoted by Israeli media.
Every accusation is a confession
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