Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians, Part 9 — January 2–10
A documentation of Ziofascist Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians from January 2–10, 2024.
January 2
A ‘funny’ Ziofascist Israeli houseburning:
“We would enter the house, an innocent Palestinian home, in the middle of the night. […] what motivated me eventually to break my silence was the piercing young eyes of Palestinians when I was barging into their house in the middle of the night. I could always justify it to myself, but those eyes, the anger, their fear was what eventually helped me to overcome that. The house of a physician in Nablus, for example, that I entered in the middle of the night, taking him, his wife and his daughter, and pushing them in a room. If they wanted to use their bathroom, or their kitchen, or use their phone, they need permission from me.
That specific house in Nablus stayed with me for a while, because that physician himself was kind enough and generous enough to sit down and explain to me what it means to be a Palestinian. And I thought that I was a good moral soldier, but I was actually helping entrench the occupation in that sense.”
Palestinian Red Crescent massacre:
January 3
‘The most moral army in the world’:
January 4
‘The most moral army in the world’:
Levi Simon: “So I’m going through these terrorist houses, looking for guns and explosives, that[?] we found money. At every single house of Gaza, this is what I see. Every single, unbelievable. Two or three doors stuffed with the most, ah, exotic loundry that you can imagine. Just pile loads of it.”
USA: Tariq Habash resigns from the genocidal Biden regime:
A top adviser at the Education Department has resigned over President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, the second official to do so as the administration faces divisions over U.S. support for Israel’s bombardment in Gaza.
The adviser, Tariq Habash, who is the department’s only Palestinian American political appointee, announced on Wednesday that he could no longer serve an administration that had “put millions of innocent lives in danger.”
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Habash said he had come to the decision after feeling “no empathy and no recognition of my own humanity by the president.”
“I care about helping people,” said Mr. Habash, who was born in the United States but is the descendant of Palestinian Christians who were expelled from Jaffa in 1948, when the Israeli state was established. “I thought the president did, too.”
Britain:
January 5
‘The most moral army in the world’:
+972 Magazine and Local Call spoke with four Palestinian civilians who appeared in these photos, or were arrested near the scene and taken to Israeli military detention centers, where they were held for several days or even weeks before being released back to Gaza. Their testimonies — along with 49 video testimonies published by various Arabic media outlets of Palestinians arrested in similar circumstances in recent weeks in the northern districts of Zeitoun, Jabalia, and Shuja’iya — indicate systematic abuse and torture by Israeli soldiers against all of the detainees, civilians and combatants alike.
According to these testimonies, Israeli soldiers subjected Palestinian detainees to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves. Many were tied to a fence for hours, handcuffed, and blindfolded for most of the day. Some testified to having been beaten all over their bodies and having cigarettes extinguished on their necks or backs. Several people are known to have died as a result of being held in these conditions.
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Four different witnesses separately told +972 and Local Call that while sitting handcuffed in the street, soldiers entered homes in the neighborhood and set them on fire; +972 and Local Call have obtained photos of one of the burned houses. The soldiers told the detainees they had been arrested because “they didn’t evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.”
An unknown number of Palestinian civilians remain in the northern part of the Strip despite Israeli expulsion orders since the early stages of the war, which led to hundreds of thousands fleeing southward. Those we spoke to listed several reasons why they did not leave: fear of being bombed by the Israeli army on the journey south or while sheltering there; fear that Hamas operatives would shoot them; mobility difficulties or disabilities among family members; and the uncertainty of life in the camps for displaced persons in the south. Lubad’s wife, for example, had just given birth, and they feared the dangers of leaving their home with a newborn.
In a video filmed at the scene in Beit Lahiya, an Israeli soldier holding a megaphone stands in front of the detained residents — who are sitting in rows, naked and on their knees, with their hands behind their heads — and declares: “The Israeli army has arrived. We destroyed Gaza [City] and Jabalia on your heads. We occupied Jabalia. We are occupying all of Gaza. Is that what you want? Do you want Hamas with you?” The Palestinians shout back that they are civilians.
“Our house burned down in front of my eyes,” Maher, a student at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University, who appears in a photograph of detainees in Beit Lahiya, told +972 and Local Call (he asked to use a pseudonym for fear that the Israeli army would retaliate against his family members, who are still being held in a military detention center). Eyewitnesses said the fire spread uncontrollably, the street filled with smoke, and soldiers had to move the bound Palestinians a few dozen meters away from the flames.
“I told the soldier, ‘My house burned down, why are you doing this?’ And he said, ‘Forget about this house,’” recalled Nidal, another Palestinian who also appears in a photograph from Beit Lahiya, and asked to use a pseudonym for the same reasons.
For three days, Moemen Raed al-Khaldi lay wounded and motionless between the corpses of his killed family members, pretending to be dead to protect himself from being shot by Israeli soldiers.
On 21 December, Israeli soldiers broke into the house where the Khaldi family had taken refuge in northern Gaza and, in mere minutes, they shot everyone present.
The soldiers left the house thinking they had killed them all, only Moemen remained alive, bleeding for days before the neighbours found him and took him to hospital.
From his hospital bed in al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, he recounted to Middle East Eye what happened on 21 December.
Khaldi and his family had gone to the home of their relatives in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in the north of Gaza City after being forced to evacuate their own house.
On that fateful day, after the sun had set, the family had finished prayers and were lying together on the floor, covered in blankets, when Israeli soldiers suddenly blew up the front door and stormed the house.
“Everyone in the vicinity was immediately wounded, including two women; my grandmother and another pregnant woman,” Khaldi said.
Addressing the family in Hebrew, the Israeli army instructed everyone to evacuate the house. However, as no one spoke Hebrew, the family members didn’t understand the orders.
“The soldiers did not speak Arabic. No one spoke Hebrew and we did not understand what they were saying. So, my grandfather tried to translate. He only said a few words: ‘Listen to what the soldiers are telling you and go out’,” Khaldi said.
“The soldiers turned around and thought that it was my father who had spoken. They shot him with a bullet, and he was immediately killed.”
The soldiers then shot everyone else in the room, including Khaldi.
“My grandfather was then martyred, followed by my uncle, then another two men who had also taken refuge with us, then one of the owners of the house. After that, my grandmother and the pregnant woman were martyred.”
After he was shot, sustaining wounds to his legs, Khaldi lay motionless on the floor, feigning death to prevent further gunfire from the soldiers.
“I was protecting myself by staying in a place between my uncle’s back and the wall. I was protecting my head in this position. I stayed like this for three days pretending not to be alive. During that time, the army came in and out of the house, destroying the place, but I pretended to be [dead],” he recalled.
“Three days later, people transferred me along with my martyred family members to the hospital.”
“This is the world’s single most documented genocide in modern history. And yet world leaders are not only standing by, but the United States is actively arming Israel and providing the diplomatic cover for Israel to continue carrying out this genocide. Every day, every hour, every minute, there is a new video that comes out of Gaza, documenting this genocide in a way we’ve never seen before. […] If Israel didn’t drop a single bomb on Gaza but all it did was cut off food, water, electricity to its 2.3 million residents, that action alone is sufficient to constitute genocide under the treaties. […] We know that Israel is also committing the crime against humanity of forced displacement […] Israel has violated every war that exists during its genocidal campaign. […] Israel has never followed any UN resolution, be it coming out of the general assembly or the security council that seeks to hold it accountable for its violations of internationl law.
USA:
January 6
The UN humanitarian chief has described Gaza as “uninhabitable” three months into Israel’s war with Hamas, warning that famine was looming and a public health disaster unfolding.
In a grim assessment of the devastating impact of Israel’s military response to the horrific Hamas attacks on 7 October, Martin Griffiths said that Gaza’s 2.3 million people face “daily threats to their very existence” while the world just watches.
He said tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured, families are sleeping in the open as temperatures plummet and areas where Palestinians were told to relocate have been bombed.
Griffiths said: “People are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded [and] famine is around the corner.”. The few partly functioning hospitals are overwhelmed and critically short of supplies, medical facilities are under relentless attack, infectious diseases are spreading and amid the chaos about 180 Palestinian women are giving birth every day.
“Gaza has simply become uninhabitable,” the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs said.
He said the humanitarian community is facing an “impossible mission” — trying to help more than 2 million people while UN staff and aid workers from partner organisations are killed, communications blackouts continue, roads are damaged, truck convoys are shot at and vital commercial supplies “are almost nonexistent”.
Griffiths reiterated UN demands for an immediate end to the war and the release of all hostages, declaring that “it is time for the international community to use all its influence to make this happen”.
A compilation of the crimes of the ‘most moral army in the world’:
Benjamin Netanyahu: “There is no army in the world that acts in a more moral fashion than the army of Israel.”
Ziofascist sociopath soldier: “Maybe I kill a girl, she was 12, but they looking for the baby.”
USA:
The Ziofascist hasbara propagandists’ reply: ‘Hamas stole their food’
January 7
Ziofascist Israel murders journalists Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Al-Thurya:
Wael Al-Dahdouh goes back to work the same day, thereby underlining his well-deserved nickname “Al Jabal/the mountain”:
A reminder of Ziofascist Israel’s relationship with Al Jazeera:
The remains of a third murdered journalist:
Insane responses by Ziofascist hasbara propaganda accounts:
The people who ‘jules’ is following reads like the who is who of Ziofascist propaganda trash:
More massacres:
Insane Ziofascists jubilating as they commit the gravest of crimes:
The overall state of affairs for Palestinians:
“The situation has been bad for years here. Israeli soldiers search our houses day and night, vandalise and arrest people without any warning,” says Alma*, a Palestinian woman from Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as she describes the situation since the Israel-Gaza war erupted on 7 October.
Alma’s apartment in Hebron was destroyed by Israeli soldiers just a few days ago. “Since 7 October, things have been much worse, there’s no mercy. People in my community are deeply affected and live in constant fear,” she says.Hebron serves as a stark illustration of the Palestinian’s suffering under occupation: a pervasive climate of intimidation and coercion. The daily reality of people’s lives translates into restrictions of movements, forced evictions and displacement, house demolitions, search-and-arrest operations, disruption of schooling and the continuous presence of the Israeli military and settlers.
The recent escalation of the Israel-Gaza war has only exacerbated the violence and restrictions imposed on the Palestinians living in the West Bank. As of 2 January, OCHA has recorded that at least 198 Palestinian households comprising 1,208 people, including 586 children, have been displaced amid settler violence and access restrictions in the West Bank since 7 October.They represent 78 per cent of all displacements reported due to settler violence and access restrictions since the beginning of 2023.
“Immediately after 7 October, we could already see how things took a darker turn. People’s access to basic services, including shops and healthcare, has been heavily restricted,” says Simona Onidi, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project coordinator in Hebron.
“The provision of healthcare was also disrupted. Due to the severe movement restrictions and risk of violence for both patients and medical staff, we observed a 78 per cent reduction of medical consultations performed by our team in October 2023, compared to the previous month,” says Onidi.
In Hebron’s old city, located in the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron known as (H2), restrictions on entry and exit are extremely constrained and unpredictable, impacting all aspects of Palestinians living there.
H2 has long been one of the most restricted areas within the West Bank, with 21 permanent checkpoints operated by Israeli forces that regulate the movement of Palestinian residents and pose significant barriers to healthcare workers trying to access the area.In the first weeks following the Israel-Gaza war, Israeli forces further restricted movements, opening the checkpoints only one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, for only a few days a week. At times, Palestinians aren’t allowed to leave their homes for four consecutive days, not even to get the trash out or open their windows.
“I cannot compare the level of intensity today to before [the war]. It’s as if the Israeli settlers and army have no limits,” says Aliyah*, a Palestinian woman from Tel Rumeida in H2.
“I’m pregnant and for example, this morning, the soldiers asked me to pass through the x-ray machine three times [at the checkpoint]. I asked not to go through, for the safety of my baby, but they wouldn’t listen — as if they don’t even believe that I am pregnant,” says Aliyah.
“We are all terrified. People think that the situation in Gaza will happen in the West Bank. Are we next? We just don’t know when,” says Salma*, another resident of the H2 area in Hebron.
Israel’s army has attacked at least 12 cemeteries in the Gaza Strip by deliberately bulldozing and desecrating hundreds of graves and stealing dozens of bodies from them as part of its genocidal war on Palestinians in the Strip, which started on 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement.
According to preliminary testimony gathered by Euro-Med Monitor, multiple Gaza Strip cemeteries have been targeted by the Israeli army. One such cemetery, Al-Batsh, was targeted on Friday 5 January. It was subjected to extensive levelling operations that included digging up graves and tearing apart some shrouded corpses.
The cemetery had initially been established on 22 October 2023 to bury dozens of unidentified dead individuals who were left in the Shifa Medical Complex for days, local residents told the Geneva-based rights group. Residents explained that Al-Batsh Cemetery had then received a large number of dead people due to the inability of victims’ families to reach the eastern areas of Gaza City and bury their loved ones in the main cemeteries there.
During the Israeli army’s raid last week, Al-Batsh Cemetery was entirely levelled, and its graves were dug up to the extent that the majority of the bodies were removed, dismembered, and looted, along with some of the tombstones that identified the people buried there.
Nour Nasser, a Gaza City resident who was forced to move to the south of the Gaza Strip, said that her brother Muhammad, who was in his 20s, had been killed and buried in Al-Batsh Cemetery. Her family was shocked to learn that the cemetery had been bulldozed and that her brother’s remains had vanished. “The Israeli army not only killed my brother, but also went so far as to deny my family any opportunity to visit his grave,” Nasser stated.
In a separate incident, the Israeli army stormed Al-Tuffah neighbourhood’s cemetery, east of Gaza City, and dug up more than 1,000 graves, removing over 150 freshly buried dead bodies from the cemetery.
Euro-Med Monitor also received several testimonies on 25 December 2023 that said the Israeli army bulldozed the Beit Hanoun Cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip and defaced its graves. Beit Hanoun resident Muhammad Abu Awad told the Euro-Med Monitor team that the Israeli army’s invasion of the cemetery had resulted in its graves being destroyed by military vehicles and the cemetery ultimately being demolished completely.
Abu Awad reported that they saw the Israeli army excavating certain graves within the cemetery and removing the bodies of the recently buried; in the end, the remaining bodies were mixed up due to the bulldozing and excavation activities, making it impossible to identify any of the corpses.
During a raid on the Sheikh Shaaban Cemetery in Gaza City’s Palestine Square neighbourhood from 17 to 20 December 2023, the Israeli army destroyed scores of graves and trampled over the dead bodies, said Euro-Med Monitor.
The Euro-Med Monitor team also reported massive destruction on 20 December in a cemetery situated approximately 1.7 kilometres east of the central area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli bulldozing operations involved the destruction of graves across an area of approximately 2,500 square metres. At the beginning of the same month, the Israeli army also raided Al-Fallujah Cemetery in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, vandalising graves and gravestones and stealing multiple bodies.
According to Euro-Med Monitor field documentation, the Israeli army has targeted the majority of the cemeteries in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Fallujah cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip; Ali bin Marwan; Sheikh Radwan; Al-Shuhada; and Sheikh Shaaban Cemetery; in addition to the St. Porphyrius Church Cemetery in Gaza City and Al-Shuhada Cemetery in the northern town of Beit Lahia; destroying dozens of graves in total disregard for the sanctity of the dead. Large holes have been created in these cemeteries as a result of frequent Israeli attacks, engulfing dozens of graves, and the remains of some dead bodies have been scattered or have disappeared. Dozens of graves are seriously damaged.
Euro-Med Monitor said that mass graves have been randomly established across the Gaza Strip to bury those killed in Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Strip, given the difficulty of accessing the main and regular cemeteries amid the non-stop Israeli attacks. Families in the Gaza Strip have resorted to creating random mass graves in residential neighbourhoods, courtyards, roads, wedding halls, and stadiums. More than 120 random mass graves have been established so far, the human rights group confirmed.
Given the abhorrent and unjustifiable international complicity, Euro-Med Monitor emphasised that Israel has not spared even the dead in its genocidal war on Gazans. Israel systematically violates the sanctity of the dead and of cemeteries, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said, in flagrant violation of the principles of international humanitarian law and the rules of war in relation to the protection of cemeteries during armed conflicts, including the Hague Conventions and the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Reaction from a victim-playing Ziofascist nutcase or propaganda account:
USA:
Rejections of Antony “The Butcher” Blinken’s transparent lies:
Antony “The Butcher” Blinken: “I am deeply, deeply sorry.”
Question from the audience: “110 journalists have been targeted, targeted by the IDF, including our colleague, the son of our colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh, Hamza Al-Dahdouh. Does United State condemn targeting journalists?”
Antony “The Butcher” Blinken: “I am deeply, deeply sorry for the almost unimaginable loss suffered by your colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh. I am, ah, I’m a parent myself. I can’t begin to imagine the horror that he’s experienced not… not once but now… now twice. This is, ah, an unimaginable tragedy, and that’s also been the case for, as I said, far too many innocent Palestinian men, women and children.”
January 8
‘The most moral army in the world’:
40 academics, researchers and writers killed in Israeli offensive on Gaza:
Hospitals:
Gaza becoming uninhabitable:
January 9
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed carrying out the strike, saying that it had targeted a “terrorist” in the vehicle.
“An IDF aircraft identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops,” the IDF said in a statement. “We are aware of the reports that during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle as the terrorist were also hit.”
Asked by NBC News if the IDF had evidence to support its allegation that an individual in the vehicle was a terrorist, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the incident was “unfortunate” and an investigation was still ongoing.
“Every journalist that dies it’s unfortunate,” he said.
“We understand they were putting a drone, using a drone. And using a drone in a war zone, it’s a problem. It looks like the terrorists,” Hagari said, adding that Hamas uses drones to collect intel on Israeli forces. “So we will investigate this incident and we will provide the data,” Hagari said.
Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad told NBC News that Thuraya was a freelance drone operator, who was part of a convoy of journalists including Hamza. He said the duo were in the car on their way home from filming the aftermath of an airstrike when their vehicle was targeted by Israeli forces, adding that they were not flying a drone while driving back to Rafah.
In a statement, Al Jazeera condemned the attack, calling Hamza and Thuraya’s deaths an “assassination” and urging legal action to be taken to restrain the Israeli military. The network added that the Israeli military has “systemically targeted” Dahdouh and his family.
A British wafflefest with Foreign Secretary David Cameron:
Brendan O’Hara to David Cameron: “You said, and I quote ‘One of the things we’d like the Israelis to do is to switch the water back on.’ Now that says that they turned it off, it says you recognize that they have the power to turn it on. Therefore, isn’t turning water off and having the ability to turn it back on but choosing not to, isn’t that a breach of international humanitarian law?
David Cameron [evading the question]: “It’s just something they ought to do, in my mind.”
USA:
January 10
Britain:
Palestine:
Ziofascist insanity: ‘compulsory voluntary migration’:
Hope for justice in light of the January 11–12 ICJ case:
USA:
