#yedioth

[wherepond]

Gaza ceasefire fake

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly promised to continue the war in Gaza despite the security cabinet giving a nod to the ceasefire deal. The claim was made by Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, in a bid to stop far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich from exiting his cabinet.

[probablyasocialecologist]

"Hannibal at Erez, dispatch a Zik [attack drone]," came the command on October 7.

Those words, reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz in July, confirm what many Israelis have feared since the Hamas attacks on October 7 in southern Israel.

Israeli forces have killed their own citizens.

[...]

In July, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed commanders in the IDF gave the order to fire on troops who had been captured by Hamas at three separate locations, explicitly referencing the Hannibal Directive.

One former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez, told a Haaretz podcast the directive was not specifically ordered but was "apparently applied" by responding aircrews.

Panicked, operating without their normal command structure and unable to coordinate with ground forces, they fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.

"This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without," Colonel Erez said.

Air force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of "tremendous" amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.

"Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles," reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.

[...]

Bergman's investigation found 70 vehicles were destroyed by Israeli aircraft and tanks to prevent them being driven into Gaza, killing everyone inside.

"It is not clear at this point how many of the abductees were killed due to the activation of this [Hannibal] order on October 7," he wrote.

6 September 2024

[opencommunion]

"A December investigation by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that Israel implemented against its own civilians captured on 7 October a version of its Hannibal directive: Israel used overwhelming lethal force even at the risk of killing Israelis along with their Palestinian captors, in order to avoid leaving them alive to be held captive in Gaza, and to avoid having to pay a steep political price for their return. Although Israel’s application of the Hannibal directive was widespread on 7 October, its implementation at the Cohen home stands out because more captives were killed there than in any other single structure on that day. One high-ranking Israeli officer called the army’s actions there an 'exponential Hannibal.' ... In late December the ranking officer who led Israel’s reconquest of the kibbutz – 99th Infantry Division commander and then commander-in-waiting of the Gaza Division, Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram – admitted to The New York Times that he ordered an Israeli tank to fire shells at the house, though he knew there were still-living Israeli captives inside. 'Break in, even at the cost of civilian casualties,' Hiram recalled ordering the tank commander. ... It is unlikely that the Israeli army will either fully endorse his explanations of the 'mass Hannibal' incident at Pessi Cohen’s house, or reveal all it knows about what really happened there on 7 October, because to do so would force it to undercut a pillar of Israeli propaganda about the events of that day: that Hamas heartlessly executed Israeli babies – a lie promoted by Hiram, but first invented by the commander of the Israeli army’s home front national rescue unit, Colonel Golan Vach.

... The day after Vach invented the lie of eight burned babies at the Pessi Cohen house, Yasmin Porat retold her survival story to the Israeli press, this time to Kan radio. Again she explained how she and a group of Israelis that included no small children were violently captured by Hamas and held hostage at Pessi Cohen’s home, but thereafter treated humanely and neither executed nor harmed in any other way. ... Colonel Golan Vach’s new allegations of 19 and even 23 Israeli civilians murdered by Hamas at the Cohen home created a serious problem for General Hiram, who had ordered the tank shelling. Vach’s tallies of the number of Israeli civilians killed there were up to 50 percent higher than the correct figures repeatedly reported by Yasmin Porat, who survived the bloodbath. Worse yet, Vach had introduced eight infants into the death toll – babies who had never existed. Hiram then had no choice but to alter his rendition of events, inflating the figures he had divulged to the Israeli news outlet Walla two weeks earlier. ... Hiram’s numerous lies about the battle at the Be’eri home of Pessi Cohen were apparently attempts to shield himself from the consequences of his command decisions. ... It is likely that Hiram’s main motive for lying about the events at Be’eri was to avoid repercussions for ending the lives of Israeli civilians in one of the most ghastly ways imaginable, burning them to death. ... Army rescue chief Colonel Golan Vach, however, who only arrived at Be’eri hours after those decisive tank shells were shot, did not lie about the battle out of loyalty to Hiram. Rather, he had his own motive for spinning Israel’s military failures into anti-Semitic atrocity tales: to manufacture consent for Israel’s utter annihilation of the Gaza Strip.

... Because of his stature and reputation, Israel’s national rescue chief Golan Vach was believed by reporters and editors all over the world, who published his bald-faced lies about Palestinians decapitating and burning to death Israeli babies on 7 October, even without any evidence. ... If they had only dismissed his gaslighting and done their due diligence, those same media outlets would have found plenty of evidence in the public domain of Vach’s desire 'to clear this region' of Palestinians without regard for 'human rights' from well before that date."

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

Israel killed HUNDREDS of their own people on October 7.

IDF fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.

"This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without," Colonel Erez said.

Air force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of "tremendous" amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.

"Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles," reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.

"The frequency of fire at the thousands of terrorists was enormous at the start, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow their attacks and carefully choose the targets."

[palms-upturned]

‘Exhaustion’, ‘panic’ as the displaced search for shelter in Deir el-Balah

May 8th 2024, 11:45 GMT

Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

Events are evolving rapidly. People in Rafah are filling up the roads and evacuating from the city.

They are moving their stuff either by car or by animal-drawn cart, using whatever means of transportation available as Israel expands its intense bombing campaign. The bombing seems to be moving a little further towards central Rafah, as well as the western part of it.

People are pouring into central Gaza by the thousands, mainly to Deir el-Balah city.

The vicinity of this hospital – Al-Aqsa Hospital – is becoming very crowded, with many families looking for any small, empty area… to set up tents or whatever they’re able to construct.

Exhaustion and panic define what these families are experiencing.

‘Hamas will move northwards’: Israeli military spokesman

May 8th 2024, 12:25 GMT

Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, said he expects Hamas to regroup and continue operating even after the Rafah operation, but that Israel will keep pursuing it wherever it goes.

“I want to tell the public so that they do not delude themselves: Even after we deal with Rafah, there will be terror,” Hagari said in an interview with Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

“Hamas will move northwards and try to reconstitute itself, even in the next few days. In every place Hamas returns to, including in northern and central Gaza, we will return to operating.”

[memecucker]

In July, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed commanders in the IDF gave the order to fire on troops who had been captured by Hamas at three separate locations, explicitly referencing the Hannibal Directive.

One former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez, told a Haaretz podcast the directive was not specifically ordered but was "apparently applied" by responding aircrews.

Panicked, operating without their normal command structure and unable to coordinate with ground forces, they fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.

"This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without," Colonel Erez said.

Air force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of "tremendous" amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.

"Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles," reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.

"The frequency of fire at the thousands of terrorists was enormous at the start, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow their attacks and carefully choose the targets."

Tank officers have also confirmed they applied their own interpretation of the directive when firing on vehicles returning to Gaza, potentially with Israelis on board.

"My gut feeling told me that they [soldiers from another tank] could be on them," tank captain Bar Zonshein told Israel's Channel 13.

Captain Zonshein is asked: "So you might be killing them with that action? They are your soldiers."

[allthegeopolitics]

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Tuesday evening blocked a major street in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, protesting the contentious issue of military conscription, Anadolu Agency reports. Dozens of Haredi protesters closed Jabotinsky Street, which connects Bnei Brak with the cities of Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The protesters sat on the street and disrupted traffic, chanting slogans rejecting military service, including “We would rather die than enlist” and “Conscription orders are destruction orders.” In a statement, Israeli police called the protest illegal and said officers were working to reroute traffic and forcibly disperse the demonstrators.

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[eretzyisrael]

#WeRemember

January 27, 2024 International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Source:

ידיעות אחרונות Yedioth Ahronoth

Humans of Judaism

[khanger]

Israeli media reported that the Israeli occupation's military institution estimates that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants against Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Security Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza could lead to further international arrest warrants and criminal actions worldwide against senior officers, regular soldiers, and reservists who engaged in the war.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the IOF have recently identified around 30 cases where legal actions, including criminal procedures, have been taken against officers and soldiers involved in the war on Gaza who planned to travel abroad. The military has warned them to avoid traveling, fearing arrest or investigation in the countries they planned to visit.

The Israeli military has also instructed some of its officers and soldiers currently abroad to leave immediately to avoid facing legal action.

@rhubarbspring @jehadism

[palestinesposts]

Yedioth Ahronoth: Netanyahu told his administration that Trump would fully support Israel's return to war if the deal was violated. - Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that Trump, after his inauguration, will release all suspended weapons

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Testimony from Palestinians indicates Israeli forces deliberately executed civilians in their homes with gunfire and indiscriminately bombed civilians from the air as part of the military operation in Gaza to rescue captives held by Hamas.

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth described the 8 June operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which killed 210 Palestinians, as a “near-perfect execution in broad daylight.”

[athena5898]

The Resistance Exacts a Price: A series of zionist reports came out this morning detailing the significant losses to the zionist entity on the northern front. Hypothetically, ten thousand projectiles can cripple the entity (https://t.me/RNN_Backup/47677) within minutes. But what is the price that the zionists have paid with Hezbollah's calculated operations? First of all, over 200,000 settlers have been displaced from the northern settlements, and they will not return, by orders of Hezbollah leadership, until the war on Gaza stops. Dozens of soldiers have been killed and wounded, and over 308,000 dunams of land (76,000 acres) have been burned (https://t.me/RNN_Backup/51964), 200,000 in the north. Channel 14 reported that 53 soldiers have been killed on the northern front and 441 wounded, but the true toll is clearly much higher, as evidenced by field and hospital reports. Settlers in the nearly empty north have filed 6,000 compensation requests for damages, which amount to 15 billion shekels ($5 billion). 10,000 rockets have been fired from Lebanon towards northern occupied Palestine, with a new average of about 150 rockets per day, in 3,200 operations (https://t.me/RNN_Backup/60916) in support of Gaza, targeting over 1,031 locations. These rockets are reaching as deep as Haifa and beyond, taking settlers "back to the days of the Second Lebanon War," as quoted by Haaretz. Of the damage caused by the rockets, 54% was in residential buildings, 11% in public buildings, and 3% in infrastructure. 1,645 direct hits were recorded on buildings, mostly in "Kiryat Shmona" and "Metulla," according to Yedioth Ahronoth. "Al-Manara" was struck 63 times, and "Shtula" in the northwest 68 times. The cost of losses overall was 62 billion shekels in the last month alone, causing a deficit of 26 billion shekels since 2024 started. The deficit has reached a new record of 117.3 billion shekels (nearly $32 billion), which is the highest in the short life of the zionist entity. It is worth noting that a single interception of a Yemeni missile costs the entity over $2 million shekels per attempted interception. Settlers are leaving the entity at a record rate. In 2023, 55,300 "israelis" left, but only 27,800 returned, for example. Hezbollah has revealed that the zionist entity is using settlers as human shields (https://t.me/RNN_Backup/61147), with military installations inside of hospitals, on top of universities, and even underground wartime hospitals on main roads. These installations, which are used to facilitate genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, are legitimate military targets subject to attack. As Hezbollah repels the failed invasion into Lebanon, it continues to strike the zionist depth with ease. Certainly, what is coming is greater.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Pro-Palestine organizations have filed at least 50 criminal complaints in courts around the world targeting Israeli soldiers for their role in Tel Aviv's ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, according to reports in Hebrew media.  “About 50 complaints have been filed against reserve soldiers, 10 of which have been investigated without any arrests recorded so far,” Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported on 6 January. Hours after the news was broadcast, Israeli news outlet Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed a new complaint against an Israeli soldier vacationing in Thailand. “The Palestinian foundation was looking for legal representation to represent it in complaints of war crimes in Thailand's courts,” the Israeli daily reports. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, authorities are aware “of at least 12 cases” in which complaints have been filed against Israeli soldiers on leave after serving in Gaza. “Such complaints have been filed in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Serbia, Ireland, and Cyprus,” Israeli media reported, with other statements adding South Africa, Morocco, and France to the list. “A joint task force of the Military Advocate General's Corps, the Foreign Ministry, the National Security Council, and the Shin Bet is now analyzing risks to soldiers in various countries and monitoring potential investigations,” Haaretz reported on Sunday, adding that Tel Aviv is “coordinating with local law firms to provide immediate legal aid if necessary.” Over the weekend, a federal court in Brazil ordered the police to open an immediate investigation into an Israeli soldier vacationing in the country. Soon after, Israeli officials helped the soldier flee to neighboring Argentina, where the far-right government has expressed complete support for the Israeli genocide.

6 Jan 2025

[notyourtoday]

Caption on post -

Urgent ⭕Yedioth Ahronoth: 6 people were injured during efforts to combat massive fires in Kiryat Shmona occupied Palestine

By @abdul.falasteen

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[porterdavis]

A resounding diversion for Bibi

Egyptian Intelligence Minister called Netanyahu ten days before Hamas attack and warned him of "something unusual, a terrible operation" that was about to take place from Gaza. Egyptians were "surprised by the indifference shown by Netanyahu"

— Yedioth Ahranoth

[schraubd]

Glass House Cleaning

Anecdotally, the Israeli attack on WFK humanitarian aid workers delivering food in Gaza appears to be a tipping point for some people. On some of the (ostensibly) liberal Zionist forums I frequent, I saw people who just last week were arguing that the entire concept of "proportionality" shouldn't constrain Israel's military response now are shocked and appalled, and they aren't buying Israeli excuses about "maybe we thought a Hamas operative was in the area." Query why this event triggered the shift, but change is change. The JTA has a story on the reaction of various Jewish institutions to the strike. It breaks down pretty much exactly as you'd expect: the liberals being clear-eyed in condemning the killing, the leftists condemning the killing and situating as part of the broader allegation of Israeli genocide, the centrists expressing sadness for the deaths while obscuring responsibility. And then there's ZOA: Morton Klein, the president of the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, said that he did not know about the incident before being informed of it by JTA on Tuesday in the early afternoon. He said, “Now that you’ve made me aware of it, obviously I’m devastated that totally innocent people trying to do humanitarian work have lost their lives, I’m sure unintentionally.” He also said the ultimate responsibility for the aid workers’ death belongs to Hamas. “I blame Hamas. Every single fatality is blamed on Hamas for launching this war,” Klein said. “In any war you’ll have deaths of civilians that are unintentional. In a war, mistakes are made, targets are missed. if one takes the position that one doesn’t go to war if any innocents will be killed, you won’t go to war and Hamas tyrants will win.” I happened to read this right at the same time as I read Bret Stephens' latest column on "the appalling tactics of the 'free Palestine' movement." The thesis of his article is that "the mark of a morally serious movement lies in its determination to weed out its worst members and stamp out its worst ideas"; among his examples of the worst members/worst ideas was the infamous statement by a coalition of Harvard student groups, immediately after October 7, which held "the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence." One notices, of course, that this is exactly -- exactly -- the formulation that Mort Klein adopted vis-a-vis Israel killing the WFK workers: "I blame Hamas. Every single fatality is blamed on Hamas for launching this war." So one might ask if this "member" of the pro-Israel will be weeded out, and if his ideas will be stamped out. As someone who has watched repeated endeavors try and fail to hold ZOA accountable, I can tell you the answer: they're not. Stephens isn't wrong, exactly, when highlighting some of the repellant extremism that sits largely unchallenged in the pro-Palestine movement. But if the mark of a morally serious movement is its determination to weed out one's worst members and worst ideas, the pro-Israel movement is sitting in a terribly fragile glass house. The Israeli attack on humanitarian aid workers is about more than just the seven innocents Israel killed. It is another boulder on the scale of evidence which overwhelmingly suggests that -- "most moral army in the world" protests notwithstanding -- Israel's orientation towards innocent life in this conflict has been one of cavalier indifference at best, malicious destruction at worst. Protestations that "war is hell" and "don't second-guess the generals" are ringing increasingly hollow as against the near-uniform conclusion of media, eyewitness accounts, NGOs, international observers -- you name it. Some may be biased (but then, so are Israeli government figures and their apologists). But people are entitled to draw conclusions from the reality before their eyes. (Oh, and you should read the op-ed Jose Andres published simultaneously in the New York Times and Yedioth Ahronoth). via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/Uvsl8oY