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May 15
The Israel Lobby has adapted and refined their approach.
The NewDem Action Fund accepts Israel lobby dark money from the Pro-Israel Network via Democracy Engine (payment processor) and then distributes to 115 members so FEC does not label it Israel lobby money.
Stay vigilant.
May 15
NewDem Action Fund, Federal PAC for the New Democrat Coalition is funded by Israel Lobby Dark $
NewDem Action Fund accepts Israel lobby dark $ from the Pro-Israel Network via payment processor, Democracy Engine & distributes to 115 members so FEC does not label it Israel lobby $
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Israelis do not understand true pain; that is why they can never understand true peace.
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Dear diary,
This week felt like a reminder of how ordinary life here in Palestine is always balanced on a thin edge between routine and disruption.
I went to the barbershop to meet my friend after he closed. It’s our small escape from work and from the heaviness of daily life here; we usually sit together, play FIFA or PUBG, and pretend, for a few hours, that things are normal. That night, we had just set everything up, laptops ready, when group notifications started coming in: Israeli soldiers had entered our village.
At first, we didn’t react much. Israeli night raids are something we’ve grown up with, too frequent and too familiar, only to terrorize us and establish presence. We locked the main door out of habit more than hope, then checked the security cameras through our phones just in case. That’s when I suddenly saw it, flashlights moving through the garden of the house behind us, behind the barbershop.
My stomach dropped.
I told my friend immediately: They're here.
We shut everything down. Lights off, laptops closed, silence. We sat in the dark, watching the cameras, barely breathing. The fear wasn’t just for ourselves; it was my old parents’ house I kept thinking about and what I should do if they barge in on them. On the cameras, I could see movement around it too. Surrounded, from all sides. And then the voices, shouting in Hebrew, cut through the night.
We waited like that for hours. Anxious. Frozen. Until they finally left, around three and a half hours later, just as dawn was starting to creep in.
A couple of days later, that very same friend, the barber, had his master’s presentation. He asked me to come with him to the university in the morning. It was supposed to be his big day, something he had worked so hard for the past years.
We left early, thinking we had more than enough time for a short 24 km drive. But here, distances mean nothing when illegal Israeli checkpoints decide everything. Roads were blocked, traffic was crawling, and the tension in the car kept building as the minutes slipped away.
We were stuck in line when a Border Police jeep (Magav) came speeding toward us in the opposite direction. I was driving. For a second, I didn’t know what to do; there was barely any space, just a bit of concrete to the side. I pulled over as best as I could, even damaging the underside of the car trying to make room for them.
It didn’t matter.
They stopped right next to us. Got out. Weapons drawn. Surrounded the car. Shouting. Cursing. Telling us to go back. For a moment, everything felt unreal, like we were guilty of something we were never told on our very own land.
We tried to comply, shaken and confused. They shouted that if we did that again, they would shoot us and kill us on the spot. Then they told us to “fuck off” and left us sitting there, humiliated and shaken.
We eventually made it through the checkpoint to the university, barely on time. My friend still went ahead with his presentation, even though he had thought about cancelling everything. I kept telling him to go for it, that he could do it, while inside, I was still burning with anger and humiliation I couldn’t fully put into words.
Afterward, we ate, tried to shake it off, and started the long journey back home. Same checkpoints. Same delays. Same exhaustion.
We both made it back safely. Drained, quiet, and carrying another day of survival in Palestine like so many before it.
-Handala / Palestine, Spring 2026.
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May 9
Dear Diary,
Tonight, I just wanted to do something simple: buy food for my dog and cat before we completely ran out. Since there are no pet shops or veterinary clinics in our village, I had to drive to a nearby village. I thought going at night would make the trip easier and quieter.
I was wrong.
On my way out, traffic was completely frozen. Israeli soldiers had closed every entrance and exit to our village. Cars stretched endlessly in front of me, people waiting with no answers, no way through, no idea when the roads would reopen. I sat there for more than an hour, trapped only minutes away from my own home.
Eventually, I gave up and turned back.
I came home empty-handed, unable to feed the animals depending on me. What hurts most is how ordinary this suffering has become. Even the smallest tasks, buying food, visiting family, getting medical care, and going to work, can suddenly become impossible.
This is what life under Israeli occupation feels like: constant restrictions, constant uncertainty, and the feeling that every part of daily life is being squeezed tighter and tighter. Sometimes it feels like these policies are designed to make life unbearable, to push us away from our land and our homes.
But this is our home.
And despite everything, we are still here.
9 May 2026.
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Handala retweeted
Apr 23
Under cover of the Israel-US attack on Iran and Lebanon, Israel’s security cabinet approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the West Bank. The resolution was kept secret for several weeks and published only after the ceasefire began.
These settlements join 68 others approved by the government since it took office, and more than 107 outposts built with assistance from the state.
Meanwhile, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of Palestinian residents. In two and a half years, 59 Palestinian communities have been expelled, and more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
This mechanism relies on close cooperation between two branches operated by the Israeli regime: armed settler militias carrying out daily violence on the ground with support and assistance from the military and the police, and a governmental-legal system that legitimizes and institutionalizes their actions. Over the past weekend alone, dozens of violent attacks by settlers against Palestinian residents and their property were documented.
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Apr 23
Deep down Zionist Jews love Hitler and understand very well that without him, they wouldn't have been able to establish their ethnostate in its current form on stolen Palestinian lands through war crimes, all while gathering worldwide sympathy during the process of the erasure of Palestine.
Hitler was the biggest Zionist.
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Handala retweeted
Apr 23
5 people involved in doxxing Palestine activists for years at Canary Mission have been doxxed:
Elihu David Stone, Yehuda HaKohen, Abigail Bornstein, Aharon Dikel & Alexander Malbin Duncan
Poetic justice. Make them famous for genocide.
CC @JSweetLI dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mi…
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Apr 23
The seeds and the enduring struggle in Palestine were sown in the late 19th century with the advent of political Zionism in Europe. Fueled by the nationalist fervor sweeping the continent, some European Jews concluded that the remedy for antisemitism in Europe and Russia was the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. This vision spurred colonial settlement to Palestine, where Jewish colonists began systematically dispossessing indigenous Palestinian Muslims and Christians, initiating a legacy of injustice that continues to resonate in the Palestinian fight for self-determination and dignity.
After World War II and the Holocaust, the newly established United Nations General Assembly, passed an unjust non-binding resolution in November 1947 to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, a decision that starkly disregarded the aspirations of the majority indigenous Palestinian Arab population. This plan allocated 56% of the land to a proposed Jewish state, despite Jewish colonists owning less than 6% of Palestine’s land and constituting roughly only one-third of the population, many of whom were recent European immigrants, including a significant number who were illegal immigrants. Only a quarter of the Jewish population in Palestine by 1948 held Palestinian citizenship. In contrast, the Palestinian Arab state was confined to a mere 42% of the land, despite the Muslim and Christian Palestinian majority, who were indigenous to the entirety of Palestine, forming the overwhelming demographic majority. Al-Quds/Jerusalem was to be designated for international administration, further undermining the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
Following the passage of the 1947 UN partition plan, Zionist terrorist groups initiated a brutal campaign of Palestinian forced displacement well BEFORE any neighboring Arab states intervened. By the time these terrorist groups that formed the Israeli army completed their invasion, the newly declared state of Israel had seized 78% of historic Palestine. The remaining 22%, encompassing the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, came under Jordanian and Egyptian control, respectively.
Beginning in April 1948, Zionist forces launched a coordinated and relentless assault, depopulating over 220–250 Palestinian towns and villages in just six weeks, before Israel’s unilateral declaration on May 14, 1948, on Palestinian land that was supposedly under the British Mandate protection. This occurred PRIOR to any regular Arab force could intervene.
The depopulation of over 560 Palestinian towns and villages in 1948 by Zionist terrorist groups that formed the Israeli army relied on an organized campaign of massacres and mass atrocities, of which 156 were documented in the Atlas of Palestine 1917–1966 (Table 3.2). Zionist forces also resorted to heinous terrorist tactics , including systematic rape and biological warfare, poisoning Palestinian wells to terrorize and expel native Palestinian communities.
I guess France and Britain were wrong to declare war on Germany when Germany invaded Poland and started committing atrocities there, but for some reason this equation is not applied to Palestine, Palestinians, and Arab nations. Hypocrites.
The rest is history.
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Handala retweeted
Apr 23
Seriously?!
If we wish to discuss Israel being singled out, it should be noted that although Israel is one of the world’s leading countries when it comes to violating and ignoring UNSC resolutions, it is still afforded a special place among the nations and considered a ''democratic civilized first world country'' and is afforded special privileges, trade offers and partnerships not available to any other serial violator of human rights.
If Israel is being singled out for anything, it is for its impunity to any real consequences for its violations!
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Handala retweeted
Apr 23
Let me teach you some real history, Eylon, even though I know it is a dialogue with the deaf, but here goes nothing:
Central to the narrative pitched to European and American Christian audiences is the Zionist claim of "indigeneity" in Palestine, drawing on biblical myths and, in recent times, alleged "genetic" links. At the heart of this Zionist appropriation of the Palestinians' ancestral homeland lie these fabricated biblical and historical links, centered on the core contention that only "the Jewish people" inhabited Palestine some two thousand years ago.
However, back then, only a portion of Palestine's population consisted of Hebrews—not "the Jewish people," a term invented far later—and these Hebrews were never the sole inhabitants.
In fact, the Bible's own account in the Book of Joshua reveals that the Hebrews originated elsewhere, invading and seizing the land of Canaan from its Canaanite natives, all under the banner of a divine "promise" from their God. The scriptures even note that Abraham, the figure with whom the Hebrews' god forged a covenant, hailed from Ur in what is now Iraq.
What is even more ridiculous is the myth that modern-day Jews represent the pure and only descendants of those ancient Hebrews.
This myth was solidified in Christian theology, stemming from the Catholic Church's longstanding antagonism toward European Jews, branding them as heirs to the ancient Hebrews deemed "killers of Christ," and amplified by the Protestant Reformation's millenarian ambitions to expel Europe's Jews to Palestine in hopes of hastening Jesus Christ's return. It wasn't until the late 18th century that European Christians started framing Jews as a distinct foreign "nation."
The longstanding belief among many religious Jews that their origins lie in Palestine parallels how Muslims in India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, or Malaysia claim they came from Arabia, only due to Arabia being the birthplace of their religion.
It would mirror the absurdity of those Muslims demanding an "indisputable" right to Mecca and Arabia or insisting on an "unbroken presence" there merely because a few scattered pilgrims from their lands settled there over time or because a handful of Muslim Arabs migrated to those distant Asian or African areas during the same period.
Zionists dismiss these comparisons by arguing that Judaism has never been a missionary religion, but history proves otherwise: scholars have demonstrated beyond doubt that Judaism vigorously sought converts, with widespread conversions persisting through at least the ninth century.
Even if one accepts the notion of some "connection" between European Jews and Palestine—and supposing they weren't largely descendants of converts—turning that into a "right" to invade and colonize the land and expel the native inhabitants holds no moral or legal ground.
After all, white descendants in America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa maintain genuine ancestral links to Europe, yet that confers no right to reclaim and recolonize it. Likewise, ancient Roman rule over Britain doesn't empower today's Italians to claim it now.
Thus, Zionism's theft of the ancient Palestinian Hebrews' legacy, casting them as the sole ancestors of European Jews, was deliberately crafted to detach Palestinians from their own Hebrew heritage.
Whereas Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, and Iraqis can straightforwardly trace their national stories back to the Pharaohs, the Nabateans, the Phoenicians, and the Babylonians without challenge, Palestinians are barred from asserting any sovereign link to Palestine's ancient heritage ever since a wave of European Jewish colonists chose to hijack that history for themselves.
Consequently, even as Palestinians rightfully assert descent from both the Canaanites and ancient Hebrews, Zionists outright prohibit them from embracing any ancient Palestinian roots as part of their lineage.
From its inception, Zionism has hinged on ridiculous and unrealistic arguments that crumble under the gaze of those colonized. For over 125 years, Palestinians have systematically dismantled these myths, yet the sheer logic of their rebuttals has failed to deter Israel's colonial backers in the imperial West.
The allure of Zionism's deceptive narrative stems from European Christianity's devotion to reformulated biblical myths and racist frameworks—the very ideology that sanctioned not just Zionist settler colonialism but also the brutal subjugation of the Americas, the enslavement of Africans, and the enduring grip of Western hegemony worldwide.
As shown above, I do not see one Zionist argument that stands out as unique when stacked against the arguments peddled by other European colonists.
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Apr 23
Jewish colonists threw Palestinian natives into the sea, and they cry day and night about imagining themselves being thrown in the sea.
Indeed, every Zionist accusation is a confession.
وحيفا من هنا بدأت |
فيديو نادر من مدينة حيفا في فلسطين، تظهر فيه العصابات الصهيونية وهي تتجول بين الأنقاض، بالإضافة إلى تهجير عدد من السكان الذين يغادرون المدينة على متن أحد القوارب.
وقد سقطت حيفا بيد الاحتلال في ٢٢ نيسان ١٩٤٨ واستمرت بعدها عمليات قتل وتهجير الفلسطينيين منها..
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I am supposed to love Jews for doing this to me and my people, and if I don't, then I am an antisemite.
I choose my people, the Palestinian people.
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Denying a thief a home they stole isn't hate.
It is called common sense.
Apr 22
If denying the Jewish people a homeland isn’t hate,
what is it?
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Apr 23
Zionists will always tell you about Hamas and Hezbollah, but they will never tell you why they were formed.
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Israeli war crimes in 1971-1972:
1- Ariel Sharon’s Gaza massacres, collective punishment, and forced displacements (January–August 1971): Israeli forces, led by Ariel Sharon as head of Southern Command, launched a major operation to crush Palestinian fedayeen (Palestinian freedom fighters) in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. This involved house-to-house searches; mass arrests (12,000-15,000); deportations; bulldozing of thousands of homes (2,000-6,000 homes razed) and wide paths in refugee camps (e.g., Jabalya, Rafah, and Shati); creation of wide boulevards to divide camps for easier control; shoot-to-kill policies; rape and sexual violence against Palestinian women and girls by Israeli soldiers; looting; beatings; whippings; and rifle-butt assaults. At least 300-500 killed (mainly Palestinian civilians); thousands injured, including broken limbs, with 12,000-20,000 displaced. This violated the Geneva Conventions (Article 33 on collective punishment and Article 53 on property destruction without necessity).
2- 1971 Lebanon/Syria Israeli raids (e.g., Sarafand, other border incursions): Israeli forces raided the border into Lebanon, attacking several villages. They killed Arabs, blew up houses, destroyed civilian properties and crops, and abducted civilians. Up to 100 Palestinians were killed; 200 were injured. ~50 Lebanese/Syrians killed, and ~100 injured. The UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) reports also indicated that Israeli forces crossed into Syrian territory, penetrating 800–1,000 meters at points.
3- Israeli Airstrikes on Lebanon (February 1972): Israeli airstrikes and ground force raids near Sidon and Tyre, targeting villages and camps. ~20 killed (~10 civilians per Lebanese reports); dozens injured. Mostly Palestinians and Lebanese. This violated Lebanese sovereignty and proportionality (Geneva Conventions). The UN Security Council condemned similar actions in Resolution 313 (February 28, 1972), demanding Israel cease military operations against Lebanon.
4- Israel’s use of chemical defoliants in Aqraba Village, illegally occupied West Bank (April 1972): Chemical defoliants were employed by Israel in the village of Aqraba near Nablus, where Israelis confiscated 100,000 dunums of land, leaving the Palestinian peasants with merely 6,000 dunums. In response to the Palestinians' refusal to sell the remaining land, an Israeli Piper aircraft sprayed defoliants over their fields, obliterating 200 hectares of wheat-planted lands to "teach a lesson to these villagers." Violating Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (non-military property destruction).
5- Shooting and killing of Egyptian POWs during an escape attempt (April 20, 1972): At least 1 Egyptian POW was killed by an Israeli MP.
6- Israel’s abduction of Lebanese and Syrians (June 21, 1972): Ambush and abduction of Syrian officers (5), a Lebanese officer (1), and gendarmes (3) during a military delegation visit. Held as hostages, violating the armistice and Geneva Conventions.
7- Israel’s Massacres in Syria and Lebanon (September, 1972): Israeli jets bombed villages in Syria such as Majdal Sallum, Maysalun, and Hasbaya, culminating in the Israeli bombardment of seven Syrian villages, and Israel also raided and bombed Lebanon (near Sidon, Tyre, Mount Al-Jarmaq, and Lebanese cities, towns, and villages). Strikes hit civilian areas, including refugee camps (Nabatiye) and schools. Up to 500 were killed, ~200 in Syria and ~300 in Lebanon, mostly Palestinian civilian refugees, including children and Lebanese/Syrian civilians; injuries in the thousands from shrapnel, bombings, and Israel's use of napalm caused severe burns. Non-Palestinians killed: about 100 Lebanese/Syrians. At least 130 houses were destroyed, and hundreds were displaced by Israel. This violated sovereignty and proportionality under international law (Geneva Conventions on civilian protection). The UN Security Council condemned the raids in Resolution 317 (September 21, 1972).
8- Ongoing Forced Expulsions and Demolitions in Sinai Peninsula (Throughout 1972): The Israeli Labor government forcibly expelled at least 10,000 Egyptians after seizing their lands in 1969. Their homes, crops, mosques, and schools were demolished to make way for six kibbutzim, nine rural Jewish colonial settlements, and the Jewish colony of Yamit in occupied Sinai. These Sinai colonies were dismantled in 1982 following the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Violated Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (prohibiting forced transfers and settlements in occupied territory). Some injuries (~50-100) from forced expulsions. HRW reports on Bedouin rights highlight patterns; UN documents label them as human rights abuses.
9- Extrajudicial Assassinations under Israeli Operation Wrath of God (Starting September–December 1972): A Mossad-led campaign targeted PLO/Black September leaders post-Munich. Began with the shooting of Wael Zuaiter (Rome, October 16) and the killing of Mahmoud Hamshari (Paris, December 8, via bomb). Agents used disguises for close-range shootings. ~2 killed in 1972 (Zuaiter, Hamshari; no collateral reported). Targets were Palestinians in exile. This state-sponsored terrorism war crime violated foreign sovereignty and the right to due process (extrajudicial killings under IHRL).
10- According to Israeli government figures reported in the MERIP publication, at least 92 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank alone by Israeli forces from 1968 to 1983, during which an average of approximately 6 killings per year occurred. For the years 1971-1972, this yields ~12 Palestinians killed (6 per year). Israeli forces deported 14 Palestinians from towns and villages in the West Bank and Gaza. Followed by another 14 in May-June in 1972.
-Total number of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian in exile killed by Israel: at least 824-1029. Total number of Palestinians injured by Israel: between 5,500 and 8,000.
-Total number of Arabs excluding Palestinians (mainly Lebanese/Syrians) killed or injured by Israel: at least 156 killed; between 665 and 1,125 injured.
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Important historical information to know about Israeli warcrimes before Hezbollah and Hamas were even a thing.
Apr 23
Israeli war crimes in 1971-1972:
1- Ariel Sharon’s Gaza massacres, collective punishment, and forced displacements (January–August 1971): Israeli forces, led by Ariel Sharon as head of Southern Command, launched a major operation to crush Palestinian fedayeen (Palestinian freedom fighters) in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. This involved house-to-house searches; mass arrests (12,000-15,000); deportations; bulldozing of thousands of homes (2,000-6,000 homes razed) and wide paths in refugee camps (e.g., Jabalya, Rafah, and Shati); creation of wide boulevards to divide camps for easier control; shoot-to-kill policies; rape and sexual violence against Palestinian women and girls by Israeli soldiers; looting; beatings; whippings; and rifle-butt assaults. At least 300-500 killed (mainly Palestinian civilians); thousands injured, including broken limbs, with 12,000-20,000 displaced. This violated the Geneva Conventions (Article 33 on collective punishment and Article 53 on property destruction without necessity).
2- 1971 Lebanon/Syria Israeli raids (e.g., Sarafand, other border incursions): Israeli forces raided the border into Lebanon, attacking several villages. They killed Arabs, blew up houses, destroyed civilian properties and crops, and abducted civilians. Up to 100 Palestinians were killed; 200 were injured. ~50 Lebanese/Syrians killed, and ~100 injured. The UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) reports also indicated that Israeli forces crossed into Syrian territory, penetrating 800–1,000 meters at points.
3- Israeli Airstrikes on Lebanon (February 1972): Israeli airstrikes and ground force raids near Sidon and Tyre, targeting villages and camps. ~20 killed (~10 civilians per Lebanese reports); dozens injured. Mostly Palestinians and Lebanese. This violated Lebanese sovereignty and proportionality (Geneva Conventions). The UN Security Council condemned similar actions in Resolution 313 (February 28, 1972), demanding Israel cease military operations against Lebanon.
4- Israel’s use of chemical defoliants in Aqraba Village, illegally occupied West Bank (April 1972): Chemical defoliants were employed by Israel in the village of Aqraba near Nablus, where Israelis confiscated 100,000 dunums of land, leaving the Palestinian peasants with merely 6,000 dunums. In response to the Palestinians' refusal to sell the remaining land, an Israeli Piper aircraft sprayed defoliants over their fields, obliterating 200 hectares of wheat-planted lands to "teach a lesson to these villagers." Violating Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (non-military property destruction).
5- Shooting and killing of Egyptian POWs during an escape attempt (April 20, 1972): At least 1 Egyptian POW was killed by an Israeli MP.
6- Israel’s abduction of Lebanese and Syrians (June 21, 1972): Ambush and abduction of Syrian officers (5), a Lebanese officer (1), and gendarmes (3) during a military delegation visit. Held as hostages, violating the armistice and Geneva Conventions.
7- Israel’s Massacres in Syria and Lebanon (September, 1972): Israeli jets bombed villages in Syria such as Majdal Sallum, Maysalun, and Hasbaya, culminating in the Israeli bombardment of seven Syrian villages, and Israel also raided and bombed Lebanon (near Sidon, Tyre, Mount Al-Jarmaq, and Lebanese cities, towns, and villages). Strikes hit civilian areas, including refugee camps (Nabatiye) and schools. Up to 500 were killed, ~200 in Syria and ~300 in Lebanon, mostly Palestinian civilian refugees, including children and Lebanese/Syrian civilians; injuries in the thousands from shrapnel, bombings, and Israel's use of napalm caused severe burns. Non-Palestinians killed: about 100 Lebanese/Syrians. At least 130 houses were destroyed, and hundreds were displaced by Israel. This violated sovereignty and proportionality under international law (Geneva Conventions on civilian protection). The UN Security Council condemned the raids in Resolution 317 (September 21, 1972).
8- Ongoing Forced Expulsions and Demolitions in Sinai Peninsula (Throughout 1972): The Israeli Labor government forcibly expelled at least 10,000 Egyptians after seizing their lands in 1969. Their homes, crops, mosques, and schools were demolished to make way for six kibbutzim, nine rural Jewish colonial settlements, and the Jewish colony of Yamit in occupied Sinai. These Sinai colonies were dismantled in 1982 following the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Violated Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (prohibiting forced transfers and settlements in occupied territory). Some injuries (~50-100) from forced expulsions. HRW reports on Bedouin rights highlight patterns; UN documents label them as human rights abuses.
9- Extrajudicial Assassinations under Israeli Operation Wrath of God (Starting September–December 1972): A Mossad-led campaign targeted PLO/Black September leaders post-Munich. Began with the shooting of Wael Zuaiter (Rome, October 16) and the killing of Mahmoud Hamshari (Paris, December 8, via bomb). Agents used disguises for close-range shootings. ~2 killed in 1972 (Zuaiter, Hamshari; no collateral reported). Targets were Palestinians in exile. This state-sponsored terrorism war crime violated foreign sovereignty and the right to due process (extrajudicial killings under IHRL).
10- According to Israeli government figures reported in the MERIP publication, at least 92 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank alone by Israeli forces from 1968 to 1983, during which an average of approximately 6 killings per year occurred. For the years 1971-1972, this yields ~12 Palestinians killed (6 per year). Israeli forces deported 14 Palestinians from towns and villages in the West Bank and Gaza. Followed by another 14 in May-June in 1972.
-Total number of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian in exile killed by Israel: at least 824-1029. Total number of Palestinians injured by Israel: between 5,500 and 8,000.
-Total number of Arabs excluding Palestinians (mainly Lebanese/Syrians) killed or injured by Israel: at least 156 killed; between 665 and 1,125 injured.
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