Israel/Palestine Thread

Genuinely One of the most hateful bitches on the planet.

I saw another video of her where she denied settler violence in an interview and refused to look at the video the interviewer tried to show her of a Palestinian woman being beaten. Hateful, evil, demonic woman.

Read a brief report earlier from Haaretz (paywalled) on the Palestinians harvesting their olives in the West Bank.

IDF have denied them entry to the olive groves as they did not ask for permission and get clearance. Local govt. stated that no such permission is required.

Perhaps the IDF just didn't want to be seen stealing the olives themselves - which is precisely what they were doing.

"Most moral army in the world"?

A lot more detail is coming out following the leaked video of the IDF anally raping a prisoner with an iron bar. And not just about that particular case - which the alleged perpetrators now want cancelled. There is now talk that the execution of aid workers was simply not investigated even though "orders were violated".

The IDF's former top prosecutor, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned last week due to her involvement in the leaking of a video showing the alleged abuse of a Gazan detainee by Israeli guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility, refrained from launching probes into several incidents in Gaza that could have constituted violations of international law or even war crimes because she felt threatened by right-wing incitement against her, senior IDF sources told Haaretz.

A reserve officer serving in the IDF prosecutor's office told Haaretz that after an Israeli strike in Gaza killed seven volunteers from the World Central Kitchen in April 2024, "it was very clear that the entire incident violated orders and regulations," but that after Tomer-Yerushalmi transferred the case to the IDF's operational investigation mechanism, "the incident simply disappeared… When the findings made it clear that the case required a Military Police investigation, it never happened."

The reserve soldiers accused of abusing a Gazan detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility called for their trial to be cancelled in a press conference, saying "You conducted a show trial against us, but know this – we will not stay silent. We will continue to fight for justice." Their lawyer, Adi Kedar of the far-right legal aid organization Honenu, said "cancel the trial immediately and prosecute the legal chief," referring to Tomer-Yerushalmi.

Alleged War Criminal #1 (at large) has been trying to sack the AG for a long time. His hyperbole is off the scale as usual but interesting that he's using the Hasbara against his own. Even more interesting that he wants an independent investigation of the leak - he's been refusing an independent investigation of Oct 7th for two years now.

Seems the Justice Minister also tried to put the boot in but got short shrift in return.

Such a belligerent state - when they're not killing Palestinians, they're knocking lumps out of each other. Ingrained in the psyche.

PM Netanyahu called the former prosecutor's leak of the video showing the alleged abuse "perhaps the most severe propaganda attack that the State of Israel has experienced since its establishment. This requires an independent investigation, and I expect that one will also be carried out."

After Justice Minister Yariv Levin informed the Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on Saturday that she was barred from handling the case due to her personal involvement in the investigation, and also because, according to him, there was a high probability that she will be required to testify in it, the AG responded that Levin has no authority to prevent her from investigating the video leak and said his decision "constitutes an attempt to unlawfully interfere in investigative and enforcement proceedings."

Going to make a massive leap here and assume you have no problem with it when it is proof of Palestinians committing the crimes.

He's on holidays.

Indeed.

"A British UN project manager shot by an Israeli sniper was unlawfully killed, a UK inquest has concluded.

Coroner Dr Peter Dean said he was so concerned by the case and the fact 13 UN workers have died in Jenin, he will write to Prime Minister Tony Blair."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/4534620.stm

No love lost between Turkey and Israel.

• The foreign ministers of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia met in Istanbul on Monday to discuss further steps toward implementing Trump's cease-fire plan.
• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at the meeting that there are "some issues in implementing the cease-fire in Gaza," and that "Israel is violating it regularly." Fidan added that the countries involved in the truce are still working on a planned UN mandate for a stabilization force in Gaza, and that Turkey wants to see a post-war framework in which "Palestinians ensure Palestine's governance and security."

"Most Moral Army in the World":

"A Palestinian detainee allegedly abused at Israel's Sde Teiman detention facility has been returned to Gaza without his testimony being taken, the Military Advocate General's Office informed the defense attorneys of the five Israeli guards indicted in the case.

According to the indictment, the five beat the detainee, dragged him across the floor, stepped on him, and used a taser against him. One reservist, the indictment said, also stabbed the detainee in the buttocks, causing rectal injury. The detainee suffered fractured ribs, a punctured lung and a perforated colon."