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PlayerMeji:
Multiple lives have lost in Jos, Benue, Kaduna etc since the peaceful religion people have begun to displace them...

No noise, no analysis...no sympathy from the Muslim community....

Now that Israel is killing Palestinians, the whole world must hear about it...

You mean this
https://saharareporters.com/2021/08/15/calamitous-killing-muslims-jos-dark-day-nigerias-history-pelumi-olajengbesi-esq#google_vignette

An Israeli police investigation has revealed that Israeli military helicopters were responsible for killing Israelis at the Nova Festival while shooting at Palestinian fighters

https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-11-18/ty-article/0000018b-e1a5-d168-a3ef-f5ff4d070000

CNN compared footage published by the IDF online with footage taken by Fox News, which was granted access to the site in the hours afterwards. IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus leads the tour in the IDF video and a watch on his arm shows the time to be 13:18.

Fox News Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst later visits the scene when it is dark. He says in his report it is “the middle of the night”.

Yingst is shown a bag located behind an MRI machine inside the hospital with two AK-47 guns visible on top of it. However, the IDF video filmed earlier shows only one AK-47 gun. It is unclear where the second AK-47 gun came from and why it is not visible in the earlier IDF clip.

In the intervening hours, the IDF also posted online a photo of the weaponry purportedly found at Al-Shifa hospital. The WhatsApp file name for this photo indicates it was taken at 17:35; this places it after the IDF tour of the MRI compound but almost certainly before the Fox News crew arrive.

It is possible the weaponry was removed from the scene and replaced prior to the news crews arriving. However this does not explain why more guns are visible when the press arrive than in the original IDF video.

The BBC was also granted access to the hospital the following day, on Thursday, and two AK-47 guns are still visible on top of the bag inside the MRI room.

The IDF told CNN the discrepancy between the military’s own video and the BBC footage was “due to the fact that more weaponry and terrorist assets were discovered throughout the day”.

“Suggestions that the IDF is manipulating the media are incorrect,” it added, adding, “We are acting with full transparency whilst maintaining the safety of our troops and operational readiness.”

On Wednesday, the Israeli army began a raid of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, with 700 patients and thousands of internally displaced people inside. Israel has claimed that members of Palestinian group Hamas were using the hospital as a base, a claim denied by both Hamas and hospital officials.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas senior representative in Lebanon, debunked Israeli allegation by presenting damning footage during a presentation in Beirut on Thursday.

The footage showed that Israel had been funneling weapons that it had seized during its ongoing war against Gaza across various places into the Al-Shifa Hospital, before claiming that it had found them inside the facility.

Playing the footage, Hamdan showed that Israeli forces had been taking the weapons into the facility inside cardboard boxes bearing the label of food aid.

https://cnn.com/cnn/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-18-23/index.html

victorclean:
Don't he has his body count as well?. Marriage is for future and past should be thrashed totally for peace

The past determines the future.... There is no how you will have too much of body counts and be contented with your man.... You will always be craving for more, hence infidelity comes in

victorclean:
Gbam!!!!. Why must you ask me about my body counts.

Why must you have a body count?

Holiness2100:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_afryZWKUUk?si=J0g6ayyH9G5Ps1vy

The truth will soon be out... I don't really know why Nairaland becomes haven for some bigots here in Nigeria that supports Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid because they think Muslims are the only Victims...

Holiness2100:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_afryZWKUUk?si=J0g6ayyH9G5Ps1vy

Lol Planted by IDF, we know their games

Tekzyflex:
Osho make Sense today. The Labour leader is not fighting for the interest of the suffering Nigeria masses. He's fighting a personal fight.

Since the Labour are not Nigerians right? I can't comprehend how you guys reason sometimes, everything is increased now but the labour Salary.... Fuel, Gas, Food, yet the workers salary still remain the same... Lmao

And you guys kept saying they are fighting for their personal interest, who is gonna patronize your business if not the workers after been paid their salary.... ? Won't increasing their salary help your Businesses too?

Dey Play...

Imagine paying a grown man with 4kids $30 monthly,.... Ori gbogbo àwọn politicians and their underDogs ti daru

Between 3-11 April 2002, 30.000 Israeli soldiers invaded a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jenin and launched a brutal ground incursion that murdered approximately 45-52 Palestinians and culminated in the destruction by explosives or flattened by army bulldozers a large residential area of Jenin refugee camp, much of it after the fighting had apparently ended.

The razing completely destroyed 600 homes and left 200 uninhabitable.

Given the high density of the Camp, any attack on the Camp was a potential attack against a largely civilian and refugee population. Upon its attack, the lOF declared the targeted cities as "closed military areas, and barred access to the outside world, including media.

It cuts water and electricity in most areas and imposed strict curfews on the residents within the towns.

The assault featured using Palestinians as human shields, denial of humanitarian access, attacks on ambulances, as well as disproportionate and indiscriminate destruction.

On 19 April 2002, the UNSC passed resolution 1405 demanding the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians trapped in the Camp as well as an impartial investigation.

The Zionist regime never permitted access to the UN fact-finding mission and continues to marshal state propaganda in its obfuscation of one the most grotesque attacks upon Palestinian refugees in the last two decades.

The rise of new organized armed battalions in Jenin today reflect Palestinian sumud as well as the ways in which unhealed wounds are inherited by younger generations.

Many of the fighters in the Jenin Brigade, for example, are the children of households who suffered immensely during the Battle, including the murder of their relatives, and have yet to experience any accountability for that harm or reprieve from structural conditions of oppression

https://youtu.be/1ffm3m9PtJo?si=JAmYJ_cYhBCNTRZx

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The mess and damage left by the soldiers at the Ajlouni home. (B’Tselem photo)

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, September 6, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, exposed in a report published yesterday how on Monday, 10 July 2023, at around 1:30 in the morning, dozens of masked soldiers, with dogs, entered homes belonging to the extended Ajlouni family in Hebron and forced five women to strip naked in front of their frightened children.

https://www.btselem.org/routine_founded_on_violence/20230905_soldiers_enter_homes_of_extended_ajlouni_family_with_dogs_and_female_soldiers_strip_search_women

The soldiers, said the report, threatened, using their weapons, 26 members of the family who were home at the time and confined them to one of the apartments before they handcuffed three family members, one of them a 17-year-old boy, blindfolded them and took them to another apartment. They then separated the remaining men from the women and children, who were kept in the living room and searched them in a separate room.

“The soldiers then took one woman to the room where her children, ranging in age from four to seven, were sleeping. The children woke up in fright. Two masked female soldiers kept the mother from going up to them and threatened to set the dog they had with them on her if she did not strip naked in front of them. The mother had no choice but to UnCloth and turn around in front of the soldiers, and her frightened children, unclothed,” said the report, which included testimonies from three women about their experience during the soldiers’ invasion of their house and privacy, and stealing their gold and money.

The report of stripping naked the women in Hebron drew strong Palestinian official and local criticism who denounced it pointing to Israel's lack of moral values and decency.


The mess and damage left by the soldiers at the Ajlouni home. (B’Tselem photo)

Israeli Apache helicopters attack inside Israel: “I find myself in a dilemma as to what to shoot at


By 10:30 AM, according to [url] https://www.mako.co.il/pzm-soldiers/Article-199bdbb03215b81026.htm [/url] the military gave to the Israeli news outlet Mako, “most of the [Palestinian] forces from the original invasion wave had already left the area for Gaza.” But with the rapid collapse of the Israeli military’s Gaza Division, looters, common onlookers and low-level guerrillas not necessarily under the command of Hamas flowed freely into Israel.

By this point, Israel’s two Apache helicopter squadrons had 8 choppers in the air, “and there was almost no intelligence to help make fateful decisions,” Mako reported. The squadrons did not reach full strength until noon.

As the wave of infiltrations from Gaza drove chaos on the ground, discombobulated Israeli pilots unleashed a frenzy of missile and machine gun salvos: “The Apache pilots testify that they fired a huge amount of munitions, emptied the ‘belly of the helicopter’ in minutes, flew to re-arm and returned to the air, again and again. But it didn’t help and they understand it,” Mako reported.

The Apache helicopters appear to have focused on vehicles streaming back into Gaza from the Nova electronic music festival and nearby kibbutzes, attacked cars with apparent knowledge that Israeli captives could be inside. They also fired on unarmed people exiting cars or walking on foot through the fields on the periphery of Gaza. [url]

🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸Israeli AH-64 Apache attacking Hamas fighters with it's cannon and missiles. pic.twitter.com/flzwHYP7dg

— Heyman_101 (@SU_57R) October 9, 2023

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In an interview [url] https://www.mako.co.il/mako-vod-channel2-news/ulpan-shishi-62106e2d06045810/shorts/Video-5fec3a6d89e4b81027.htm [/url] with Israel’s Mako news outlet, one Apache pilot reflected on the tortuous dilemma of whether to shoot at people and cars returning to Gaza. He knew that many of those vehicles may have contained Israeli captives. But he chose to open fire anyway. “I choose targets like that,” the pilot reflected, “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%.”

“I understand that we have to shoot here and quickly,” the commander of the Apache unit, Lt. Col. E., told Mako in a separate report. [url] https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/6361323ddea5a810/Article-02cfdbceafc4b81027.htm?utm_source=AndroidNews12&utm_medium=Share [/url] “Shooting at people in our territory – this is something I never thought I would do.”

Lt. Col. A., a reserve pilot in the same unit, described a fog of confusion: “I find myself in a dilemma as to what to shoot at, because there are so many of them.”

A report on the Apache squadrons by the Israeli outlet Yedioth Aharanoth [url] https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/b111niukzt [/url] noted that “the pilots realized that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian… The rate of fire against the thousands of terrorists was tremendous at first, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.”

A squadron commander explained to Mako how he nearly attacked the home of an Israeli family occupied by Hamas militants, and wound up firing next to it with cannon rounds. “Our forces hadn’t had time to reach this settlement yet,” the pilot recalled, “and I’ve already run out of missiles there, which is the more accurate weaponry.”

With the family inside a fortified bomb shelter, the pilot “decided to shoot a cannon 30 meters from this house, a very difficult decision. I shoot so that if they are currently there, they will hear the bombs inside the house, that they understand that it is known they are there, and with the hope that they will leave that house. I am also telling you the truth, it crossed my mind that I was shooting at the house.”

Ultimately, the Israeli helicopter pilots blamed clever Hamas tactics for their inability to distinguish between the armed militants and Israeli non-combatants. “The Hamas army, it turns out, deliberately made it difficult for the helicopter pilots and the operators of the UAVs,” Yedioth Aharanoth claimed.

According to the Israeli paper, “it became clear that the invading forces were asked in the last briefings to walk slowly into the settlements and outposts or within them, and under no circumstances to run, in order to make the pilots think they were Israelis. This deception worked for a considerable time , until the Apache pilots realized that they had to skip all the restrictions. It was only around 9:00 a.m. that some of them began to spray the terrorists with the cannons on their own, without authorization from superiors.”

And so, without any intelligence or ability to distinguish between Palestinian and Israeli, the pilots let loose a fury of cannon and missile fire onto Israeli areas below.

One of many homes in Kibbutz Be’eri which appears to have been shelled with heavy weapons

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Israel’s military “eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” firing tank shells into kibbutz homes

Photos of the aftermath of the fighting inside kibbutzes like Be’eri – and of the Israeli bombardment of these communities – show rubble and charred homes that resemble the aftermath of Israeli tank and artillery attacks inside Gaza. As Tuval Escapa, the security coordinator at Kibbutz Be’eri, told Haaretz, Israeli army commanders had ordered the “shelling [of] houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.”

Yasmin Porat, an attendee of the Nova music festival who fled into Kibbutz Be’eri, told Israeli Radio [url] https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861 [/url] that when Israeli special forces arrived during a hostage standoff, “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages because there was very, very heavy crossfire.”

“After insane crossfire,” Porat continued, “two tank shells were shot into the house. It’s a small kibbutz house, nothing big.”

Destroyed homes in Kibbutz Be’eri following the fighting on October 7, which included Israeli tank shelling of residences

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A video posted by the Telegram account of Israel’s South Responders [url] https:///southfirstresponders/309 [/url] shows the bodies of Israelis discovered below the rubble of a home destroyed by a powerful explosive blast – likely a tank shell. The right-wing New York Post [url] https://nypost.com/2023/10/19/body-of-israeli-boy-found-in-attic-where-he-hid-from-hamas/ [/url] ran a report on a similar incident about a boy’s body found scorched beneath the ruins of his home in Be’eri.

The phenomenon of charred corpses whose hands and ankles had been tied, and who were found in groups beneath the rubble of destroyed homes, also raises questions about “friendly” tank fire.

Yasmin Porat, the hostage who survived a standoff at Be’eri, described how Hamas militants tied her partner’s hands behind his back. After one militant commander surrendered, using her as a human shield to ensure his safety, she saw her partner lying on the ground, still alive. She stated that Israeli security forces “undoubtedly” killed him and the other hostages as they opened fire on the remaining militants inside, including with tank shells.

Israeli security forces also opened fire on fleeing Israelis whom they mistook for Hamas gunmen. A resident of Ashkelon named Danielle Rachiel described nearly being killed after escaping from the Nova music festival when it was attacked by militants from Gaza. “As we reached the roundabout [at a kibbutz], we saw Israeli security forces!” Rachiel recalled. “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!”

“When our forces fired at us, our windows shattered,” she continued. It was only when they shouted in Hebrew, “We’re Israelis!” that the shooting stopped, and they were taken to safety.

From Danielle Rachiel’s video testimony on October 7

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Some Israelis were not as lucky as Rachiel. Adi Ohana was shot dead by Israeli police near his home after being mistaken for a Palestinian guerrilla. “An innocent man was killed in the most negligent way possible,” his niece complained. [url] https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bkj2ul711t [/url] Israeli media is now filling up with reports of the military gunning down fellow Israelis, even as they were defending their homes from Palestinian gunmen.

Did Israel’s now-disappeared “Hamas atrocity” photos depict dead Hamas fighters?

Among the most gruesome videos [url] https:///southfirstresponders/149 [/url] of the aftermath of October 7, also published on the Telegram account of South Responders, shows a car full of charred corpses (below) at the entrance of Kibbutz Be’eri. The Israeli government has portrayed these casualties as Israeli victims of sadistic Hamas violence. However, the melted steel body and collapsed roof of the car, and the comprehensively scorched corpses inside, evidence a direct hit from a Hellfire missile.

It is also possible that the male occupants of the car were Hamas activists who had streamed in after the fences were breached. They may have also been returning to Gaza with Israeli captives inside their car.

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Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, appears to have promoted photos showing dead Hamas fighters during his October 26 tirade [url] https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1717613255936352479 [/url] at the United Nations. Erdan gesticulated angrily at the podium, bellowing that “we are fighting animals” before whipping out a paper displaying a QR code captionioned, “Scan to see Hamas’ atrocities.”

When I scanned the code that day at noon, I found around 8 grisly images of burned bodies and blackened body parts. [url] https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1717612538454577307 [/url] One showed a pile of completely charred male corpses piled into a dumpster. Would Israeli rescuers and medics have disposed of dead Jewish Israelis in such a fashion?

All Israelis killed on October 7 appear to have been collected in individual body bags and transported to morgues. Meanwhile, numerous videos recorded by Israelis showed them defiling the corpses of Hamas [url] https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1713533460290076817[/url] gunmen killed by security forces – stripping them naked, urinating on them, and mutilating their bodies. Throwing their bodies in a dumpster would seem to be a part of the de facto policy of corpse abuse.

Just over twelve hours after Ambassador Erdan promoted the supposed Hamas atrocity photos at the UN, the Google Drive file [url] https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1MIOB52Ijnq3svbPrb-RuSsRxIR-dROdI?usp=sharing [/url] contained only one brief video. Among the mysteriously disappeared photos was the image of the dumpster filled with burned bodies. Had it been deleted because it showed Hamas fighters torched by a Hellfire missile, and not Israelis “burned to death” by Hamas? [url] https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1711824317938290740 [/url]

Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan at the UN, October 26. The QR code he displayed currently leads to a 404 notice.

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Destruction reminiscent of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Some rescuers who arrived at sites of carnage in southern Israel after October 7 said they had never seen such destruction. For those who have borne witness to Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, however, the images of bombed-out homes and burned cars should have been familiar.

While reporting on Israel’s 51 day-long assault on Gaza in 2014, I came across a destroyed vehicle in central Gaza City belonging to a young taxi driver named Fadel Alawan who had been assassinated by an Israeli drone after he unwittingly dropped a wounded Hamas fighter off at a nearby hospital. Inside the car, the remains of Alawan’s sandal could still be seen melted into the gas pedal.

By the afternoon of October 7, placid settlements and desert roads across southern Israel were charred and lined with bombed-out cars that looked much like Alawan’s. Were the lightly-armed Hamas fighters actually capable of exacting destruction on such a comprehensive scale? [url] https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/500439274391482368/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E500439274391482368%7Ctwgr%5E94e0567890f2aced60d9b8178b0932bed4d1d381%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fisraels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters%2F [/url]

Is the Israeli government distributing photos of friendly fire casualties?

This October 23, Israel’s government gathered members of the international press for an off-the-record propaganda session. Inside a closed military base, officials bombarded the press with snuff films and a collection of lurid allegations of “harrowing scenes of murder, torture and decapitation from Hamas’s October 7 onslaught,” according to the Times of Israel. [url] https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shows-foreign-press-raw-hamas-bodycam-videos-of-murder-torture-decapitation/ [/url]

https://twitter.com/emanumiller/status/1716434509128765783/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1716434509128765783%7Ctwgr%5E94e0567890f2aced60d9b8178b0932bed4d1d381%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fisraels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters%2F

In perhaps the most unsettling document presented by the Israeli government, reporters were treated to video showing “a partially burned woman’s corpse, with a mutilated head… The dead woman’s dress is pulled up to her waist and her underpants have been removed,” according to the Times of Israel.

Daniel Amram, the most popular private news blogger in Israel, tweeted the video of the woman’s burned corpse, claiming that “she was raped and burned alive.

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In fact, the young woman appeared to have been killed instantly by a powerful blast. And she seemed to have been removed from the car in which she was seated – and which may have belonged to a captor from Gaza. The vehicle was comprehensively destroyed and situated on a dirt field, as many others attacked by Apache helicopters were. She was scantily clad with her legs spread apart.

Though she had attended the Nova electronic music festival, where many female attendees dressed in skimpy attire, and her bent limbs were typical of a body that had been seated in a car after rigor mortis, Israeli pundits and officials ran with the claim she had been raped.

But the allegations of sexual assault have so far proven baseless. Israeli army spokesman Mickey Edelstein insisted to reporters at the October 23 press briefing that “we have evidence” of rape, but when asked for proof, he told the Times of Israel, “we cannot share it.”

Was this young woman yet another casualty of the Israeli military’s friendly fire orders? Only an independent investigation can determine the truth.

Israel’s military kills Israeli captives inside Gaza, grumbles about their release

Inside Gaza, where some 200 Israeli citizens are held hostage, there is little doubt about who is killing the captives. On October 26, the Hamas armed wing known as the Al-Qassam Brigades announced [url] https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3239336/israel-gaza-war-hamas-says-almost-50-israeli-hostages-killed-tel-avivs-raids?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1698334570-1 [/url] that Israel had killed “almost 50 captives” in missile strikes.

If Israel’s military had intentionally targeted areas where it knew the captives were held, its actions would have been consistent with Israel’s Hannibal Directive.[url] https://www.alternet.org/2014/09/hannibal-directive-how-israels-secret-military-doctrine-deliberately-killed-soldiers-and-massacred [/url] The military procedure was established in 1986 following the Jibril Agreement, a deal in which Israel traded 1150 Palestinian prisoners for three Israeli soldiers. Following heavy political backlash, the Israeli military drafted a secret field order to prevent future kidnappings. The proposed operation drew its name from the Carthaginian general who chose to poison himself rather than be held captive by the enemy.

The last confirmed application of the Hannibal Directive [url] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hadar-goldin-hannibal-directive [/url] took place on August 1, 2014 in Rafah, Gaza, when Hamas fighters captured an Israeli officer, Lt. Hadar Goldin, prompting the military to unleash more than 2000 bombs, missiles and shells on the area, [url] https://blackfriday.amnesty.org/ [/url] killing the soldier along with over 100 Palestinian civilians.

Whether or not Israel is intentionally killing its captive citizens in Gaza, it has proven strangely allergic to their immediate release. On October 22, after refusing an offer from Hamas to release 50 hostages in exchange for fuel [url] https://twitter.com/503i7/status/1717717431076991237 [/url] , Israel rejected an offer from Hamas to free Yocheved Lifshitz, an 85-year-old Israeli peace activist, and her 79-year-old friend, Nurit Cooper.

When Israel agreed to their release a day later, video showed Liftshitz clasping hands with a Hamas militant and intoning “Shalom” to him as he escorted her out of Gaza. During a press conference that day, she recounted the humane treatment she received from her captors.

Following her release from Gaza by Hamas, 85 year old Yosheved Lifshitz is interviewed about her experience in captivity. pic.twitter.com/MOTEJ82BmB

— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) October 24, 2023

The spectacle of Lifshitz’s release was treated as a propaganda disaster by the Israeli government’s spinmeisters, with officials grumbling that allowing her to speak publicly was a grave “mistake.”

The Israeli military was no less displeased by her sudden freedom. As the Times of Israel reported, “The army is concerned that further hostage releases by Hamas could lead the political leadership to delay a ground incursion or even halt it midway.”


Source: https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/

Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been “burned alive” were actually killed by friendly fire?

Several new testimonies by Israeli witnesses to the October 7 Hamas surprise attack on southern Israel adds to growing evidence that the Israeli military killed its own citizens as they fought to neutralize Palestinian gunmen.

Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, set up a hotline to coordinate between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-10-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018b-499a-dc3c-a5df-ddbaab290000) 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 separate report: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article/.premium/underprepared-and-overconfident-israel-failed-to-spot-the-signs-of-impending-disaster/0000018b-4976-d03a-afcb-697edb020000 , published in Haaretz noted that the Israeli military was “compelled to request an aerial strike” against its own facility inside the Erez Crossing to Gaza “in order to repulse the terrorists” who had seized control. That base was filled with Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers at the time.

These reports indicate that orders came down from the military’s high command to attack homes and other areas inside Israel, even at the cost of many Israeli lives.

An Israeli woman named Yasmin Porat confirmed in an interview with Israel Radio that the military “undoubtedly” killed numerous Israeli noncombatants during gun battles with Hamas militants on October 7. “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she stated, referring to Israeli special forces.

As David Sheen and Ali Abunimah reported: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861 in Electronic Intifada, Porat described “very, very heavy crossfire” and Israeli tank shelling, which led to many casualties among Israelis.

While being held by the Hamas gunmen, Porat recalled, (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-ESUGUUMk ) “They did not abuse us. We were treated very humanely… No one treated us violently.”

She added, “The objective was to kidnap us to Gaza, not to murder us.”

According to Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-10-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000018b-499a-dc3c-a5df-ddbaab290000, the army was only able to restore control over Be’eri after admittedly “shelling” the homes of Israelis who had been taken captive. “The price was terrible: at least 112 Be’eri residents were killed,” the paper chronicled. “Others were kidnapped. Yesterday, 11 days after the massacre, the bodies of a mother and her son were discovered in one of the destroyed houses. It is believed that more bodies are still lying in the rubble.”

Much of the shelling in Be’eri was carried out by Israeli tank crews. As a reporter for the Israeli Foreign Ministry-sponsored outlet i24 noted:

Kibbutz Be'eri, once a peaceful paradise, now a small community in ruins

🎥 - @ariel_oseran pic.twitter.com/s99iRUPYsf

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 26, 2023

, during a visit to Be’eri, “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.”

Apache attack helicopters also figured heavily in the Israeli military’s response on October 7. Pilots have told Israeli media they scrambled to the battlefield without any intelligence, unable to differentiate between Hamas fighters and Israeli noncombatants, and yet determined to “empty the belly” of their war machines. “I find myself in a dilemma as to what to shoot at, because there are so many of them,” one Apache pilot commented.

The IDF just screened 43 minutes of horrors from the Hamas massacre on October 7 for foreign journalists. I was not there, my colleague @cjkeller8 was.

Here is the one minute of footage approved for mass publication at this point, barring most of it out of respect for the dead. pic.twitter.com/UDmQSrkYBL

— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) October 23, 2023

Video filmed by uniformed Hamas gunmen makes it clear they intentionally shot many Israelis with Kalashnikov rifles on October 7. However, the Israeli government has not been content to rely on verified video evidence. Instead, it continues to push discredited claims of “beheaded babies” while distributing photographs of “bodies burned beyond recognition” : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/hundreds-of-israeli-bodies-remain-unidentified-10-days-after-hamas-attack to insist that militants sadistically immolated their captives, and even raped some before torching them alive.

The objective behind Tel Aviv’s atrocity exhibition is clear: to paint Hamas as “worse than ISIS” while cultivating support for the Israeli army’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which has left over 10,000 dead: https://twitter.com/sharifkouddous/status/1717598588098765299?s=46&t=srGfzJUJh3S_aCSlSJ-SWw including at least 3500 children at the time of publication. While hundreds of wounded children in Gaza have been treated for what a surgeon described as “fourth degree burns”

A Palestinian doctor from inside the hospitals of the Gaza Strip: The Israeli occupation is using new weapons for the first time in Gaza. Whoever is not martyred will arrive at the hospital with fourth-degree injuries. 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/nGlZ599OtX

— Gaza Now in English (@EnglishGaza) October 21, 2023

caused by novel weapons, the Western media’s focus remains trained on Israeli citizens supposedly “burned alive” on October 7.

Yet the mounting evidence of friendly fire orders handed down by Israeli army commanders strongly suggests that at least some of the most jarring images of charred Israeli corpses, Israeli homes reduced to rubble and burned out hulks of vehicles presented to Western media were, in fact, the handiwork of tank crews and helicopter pilots blanketing Israeli territory with shells, cannon fire and Hellfire missiles.

Indeed, it appears that on October 7, Israel’s military resorted to the same tactics it has employed against civilians in Gaza, driving up the death toll of its own citizens with the indiscriminate use of heavy weapons.

Israel bombs its own base, nerve center of the Gaza siege

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood at 6 AM on October 7, quickly overwhelming the military bases from which Israel maintain its siege of the Gaza Strip. Chief among the objectives outlined by Hamas and PIJ was the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, including as many as 700 children[url] https://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_israeli_detention [/url] passing through the system each year along with 1264 Palestinians currently being held without charges.[url] https://www.addameer.org/ [/url]

The 2011 swap for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured five years prior and released in exchange for 1027 prisoners, provided clear inspiration for Al-Aqsa Flood. By storming military bases and kibbutzes, the Palestinian militants aimed to capture as many Israeli soldiers and civilians as possible, and bring them back to Gaza alive.

The lighting assault immediately overwhelmed Israel’s Gaza Division. Video recorded from GoPro cameras mounted on the helmets of Palestinian fighters shows Israeli soldiers cut down in rapid succession, many still dressed in underwear and caught off guard. At least 340 active soldiers and intelligence officers were killed on October 7, accounting for close to 50% of confirmed Israeli deaths. [url] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-19/ty-article-magazine/israels-dead-the-names-of-those-killed-in-hamas-massacres-and-the-israel-hamas-war/0000018b-325c-d450-a3af-7b5cf0210000 [/url] The casualties included high ranking officers like Col. Jonathan Steinberg, : [url] https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1710757663565385875 [/url] the commander of Israel’s Nahal Brigade. (Many first responders and armed Israeli civilians were also killed).

The Erez Crossing is the home of a massive military and Coordination of Government Activities in the [Occupied] Territories (COGAT) facility which functions as the nerve center of Israel’s siege on Gaza. When it was overrun [url]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzEGYQGCgkk [/url] by Palestinian fighters on October 7 with droves of army bureaucrats inside, the Israeli military flew into a panic.

According to Haaretz, the commander of the Gaza Division, Brig. Gen. Avi Rosenfeld, “entrenched himself in the division’s subterranean war room together with a handful of male and female soldiers, trying desperately to rescue and organize the sector under attack. Many of the soldiers, most of them not combat personnel, were killed or wounded outside. The division was compelled to request an aerial strike against the [Erez Crossing] base itself in order to repulse the militants.”

Video released by Israel’s COGAT ten days after the battle – and the Israeli airstrike – shows severe structural damage to the roof of the Erez Crossing facility.

🔴 Israeli officials returned to the Erez Crossing on Israel's border with Gaza today for the time since the war's outbreak

Ministry of Defense personnel assessed the damage caused by Hamas terrorists to the crossing's infrastructure pic.twitter.com/Ax5t0UDGNR

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 17, 2023

SeeWahala:
Alright how

I say they should D I E e e e e e

by hot M16 bullets and rocket blasts plus RPG and IED detonations

Remember plus ther supporters too Never forget their supporters

Alright

Elderly Palestinian couples looking at the home they once lived in. Now occupied by Israeli settlers.

EmirofAfonjaz:
Is he still Alive?

I will give him more ammunition and direct him to the SW of that Worthless country called NIGERIA so that he can also kill worthless RONU idiots that support HAMAS.

He doesn't need to go to GAZA because ISRAEL will continue killing HAMAS even if they are in Mosques..churches.... hospitals etc.

Death to HAMAS and their lovers...

You are worst than those you tagged the terrorist…..

For roughly 3500 years in what is called the Proto-Canaanite period, Jerusalem belonged to the Canaanites who worshipped many gods and godesses. It wasn't until 2000BC do scholars find a reference that debatably refers to Jerusalem. The word is "Rusalimum" in texts of Egypt's Middle Kingdom. Scholars believe that the name is a consecration to "Shalim" a Canaanite deity of the netherworld from Ugaritic scriptures. Reference is also made to “Urusalem”

In 2150 BCE, Abraham (pbuh) was order by God according to the Bible, to move from his birthplace (Ur Kasdem in Southern Iraq) to Canaan. He and his family were never rulers in Canaan. They first pitched a tent in Bethel, then moved to Egypt ruled by Pharoahs, then lived in the Negev desert and moved back to Bethel. Meanwhile Lot (pbuh) moved away to live under the Kingdom of Sodom. Abraham then lived under the various canaanite kings of the time, including Abimelech the King of the Philistines.

The territory passed from the Canaanites to the Egyptians, ultimately. So here we have Egyptians and Canaanites being the original inhabitants of Jerusalem for 3,500 years. The Israelites lived under these authorities. Eventually a famine in Canaan led them to move to Egypt. They lived in Egypt, away from Canaan for 430 years before they became enslaved by the Pharoahs.

After Exodus, Jerusalem was finally taken by King David in 1010BC. This is the first time Israelites actually ruled something. It was very short lived however. They lost the city to the Egyptians in 925BC. Jehoash of Israel briefly recaptured it in 786BC but then lost it to the Assyrians in 740BC. So they intermittently ruled Jerusalem for just 131 years.

For 600 years the Israelites did not rule Jerusalem. The Jewish Hasmoneans finally re-took it in 140BC under Simon Thassi but then lost it to the Persian Seleucides in 134 BC. That's 6 more years of Jewish rule. Due to a Seleucid civil war, Judeah incidentally became independent in the chaos in 116BC. In 87BC the Jewish Hasmonean king executed 800 Jews for sedition. In 47BC they lost Jerusalem again, this time to the Romans. That's 69 years of rule.

In total, off and on the Jews ruled Jerusalem for approximately 206 years.

Comparing successive rule thereafter:

The Pre-Constantine Romans ruled it for 250 years.

The Christian Byzantines ruled it for 304 years.

The Arab Muslims ruled it under the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Empires for 332 years.

The Egyptian Muslim Fatimids ruled it for 129 years.

The Crusaders took it from the Muslims and held it for 88 years.

The Muslim ruler Saladin conquered it in 1187 and his descendents held it for 63 years.

The Egyptian Muslim Mamluk Empire ruled it for 236 years.

The Ottomans ruled it for 401 years.

So in summary:
That's 3500 years of non-Abrahamic rule Canaanite and Egyptian rule, 206 years of Jewish rule, 392 years of Christian rule. And over 800 years of Muslim rule, which includes 395 years of specifically Arab rule.

So who has the best claim? If we go by original inhabitants or length of rule, then it’s the Canaanites and Egyptians. Egyptians still exist today. Canaanites, although mostly wiped out by Biblical orders, still exist in Lebanon today. The Lebanese are descendents of original Canaanites. In any case however, both Egyptians and Canaanites including Philistines, lost control of the land over 3000 years ago. So they are out. They don’t even care to rule the land and don’t make any claim for it anyway. In any case, the Jewish claim to being the original inhabitants, is very easily thrown out.

After Canaanite and Egyptian rule, the Israelites (Jews+Samaritans) ruled very intermittantly for 206 years. Not a long time, and not a stable rule. Neither were they the first inhabitants, nor did they rule for very long. Pagan Romans thereafter ruled longer than them. Thereafter, Christian Romans ruled longer than them.

On February 25th, 1994 when Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born zionist settler, murdered 29 Palestinians in cold blood and wounded over one hundred and fifty more as they prayed in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the West Bank.

Goldstein was then overpowered, disarmed and beaten to death by the survivors in an act of self-defense and collective resistance, who rushed at him as he fired his automatic rifle with nothing but their fists.

In the direct aftermath of Goldstein’s shooting spree on February 25th, occupation forces murdered 6 more Palestinians, and in the days that followed, as Palestinians across historic Palestine took to the streets in mass protests to condemn the massacre, occupation forces responded by killing an estimated 26 Palestinians, nearly as many people as were massacred in the mosque.

While israeli politicians tried to distance themselves from Goldstein, the blood was on their hands, too. In October 1993 after Goldstein was identified as the culprit of an acid attack that left holes in the carpet of the mosque and after he assaulted six Palestinians, the Ibrahimi Mosque’s authorities wrote to the israeli prime minister, warning of the danger that Goldstein posed. They never received a response.

Goldstein was a follower of the fascist zionist Meir Kahane who founded the Jewish Defense League in NYC in 1968. The JDL would go on to become known for its terrorist activities, carrying out multiple bombings in the 1970s and assassinating Palestinian-American community organizer Alex Odeh in 1985. Before settling in Palestine in 1983, Goldstein was a member of the JDL in Brooklyn, where both he and Kahane were born and raised.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yghoP7XqTU?si=3ovSQ5W8rM1OURmX

Fuckyoumod:
Americans don't know what they have on their hands. Muslim is fully rooted now and will soon consume them from the inside.

The sad truth is that these Muslims making noise in America today all migrated from Islamic countries. Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan Saudi Arabia etc. Were they had no freedom and rights for anything other than war,death and some useless sharia laws. Tell them to go back to their Islamic countries they will never go.

Don't open your doors to Muslims if you ever want peace. Else you go fight tire.

I have never seen a religion so toxic, chaotic, violent and problematic like Islam.

Muslims across the world, why do you hate peaceful coexistence?

You fight yourselves and also fight others.

God forbid! spits....

As for Palestinians, I have no pity for you guys. Since they have refused to coexist in peace with Israel.
Gaza will continue to be a graveyard.

You people are so f*cking disgusting, always playing the victim cards…..

The last time I checked Muslim , Christian and Jews were living peacefully in Palestine before 1948….


I wonder what you will do to retaliate if you are been driven out of your home land with your family been wiped out for no reason

The genesis of the problem has always been you guys …. Let me sight a very close example to you…

Here on Nairaland , show me where any Muslims has ever attacked any Christian content on Sunday…

Show me where any Muslim has ever insulted or reacted negatively to any Christian content here on Sunday…


You and I can both agree the insult and blasphemous comments from you guys every Friday under Muslim content is very common… yet Muslims are not the peaceful ones….


The game you guys like to play and very good at is playing the victim cards cus you have media on your side….

To know how heartless and disgusting you guys are….

You support killing of innocent children because they are Muslims…..


You support occupation because those that were being occupied are Muslims


You support apartheid because the victims are muslims


You even believe Israeli propagandas and lies about Oct 7 because Muslim are the victims..

Shame on you!

As a Muslim I would never support in any sense of it killing of innocent civilians because it is morally wrong….

How do I call myself a righteous human if I can start justifying killing of innocent people just because of our differences….

Once you see yourself justifying what the Israeli has been doing for the past 75years just know that you are not worthy of been Called a human….

Imagine the case was reversed! Who would you be supporting right now?

UptownVibes:
And its only a terrorist that will be a supporter if terrorists..

Yeah that is why you are in support of occupation and apartheid

UptownVibes:
Did Hamas attack isreal head on head,when they invaded? Those Hama's terrorists grew from children to adult.. If you want a tree dead,you take it right from the root.. The kids were still gonna grow to become terrorists,because they brain wash them from childhood.. Hamas should have been conscious of their wives and kids before going to attack a country they depend on for power,food and all that.. Since they are cowards who decided to hide among civilians, they should not cry just yet.. Maybe you should go join them in the fight against Isreal,what do you think?

I wasn't expecting anything less from you.... It is only criminals that justifies killing of innocent children....

They would be living in peace and harmony if they were not been sent out of their Homeland in the first place... But your bigotry will not allow you to see or say the truth...

bigiyaro:
I don't own you any evidence, let's just say, you killed my civilians on oct 7 and kidnapped some, by almost 4 weeks later, am still killing your civilians and you are hiding in tunnels like pigs instead of coming out to fight like real men. I think next time, that is if there will any, Hamas will think about the 'civilians' in Gaza before, paragliding . Many Muslim countries would have love to wipe out America, but they have the welfare of their fellow brothers at heart, cos the know consequences that follows.That's the way of the world.

Yeah since you have not been following the real news, let me help, Hamas is currently on the battle field with IDF… and funny enough they are giving it to them back to back…..

IDF should face HAMAS on the field, they should stop carpet bombing the civilians….


The only issue I have with the current situation is killing of innocent civilians from the both sides…. Like I don’t give a damn if soldierskill themselves, but innocent civilians? NO!

UptownVibes:
So why are you now bothered? Let them fight bro

And they are indeed fighting, the only problem is Israel is not actually facing Hamas head to head, they are just carpet bombing civilians, mostly children but that doesn’t bother you, since anyone that is not a Christian is less human to you.

bigiyaro:
LoL... Hamas buy bad market. The normal human shield method is not working, na organ propaganda now.... Israelites will not contaminate themselves with any terrorists dirty organ. Fvck all terrorists sympathizes.

Who is using human shield? Bring out one evidence that shows Hamas have using their fellow Palestinians has shield…. It is because IDF said it , that is why you believe it?

You might want to check this out: https://x.com/peaceinteract/status/1721415734696284524?s=46

UptownVibes:
Is it because they aren't Holy the reason why Hamas invaded them?

Who invaded them? Bro you need to get your story straight….. they are the occupying forces, Hamas has right to fight against occupation under the International Law.

VULCAN:
Murderer sympathizer.

The blood of the women and children you people kill in Benue and Plateau will cry out against you

The ones you people killed in JOS will cry out against you......

No sane human would justify d killing of innocent people regardless or their faith or race....

Anybody that justifies or celebrate killing of innocent people is worst than a Pig, like you guys are doing by celebrating the IDF killing of innocent civilians..

The mind of average Israeli

https://x.com/hayxtt/status/1721185168428257731?s=46