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#Israel's #GhostUnit also known as #Refaim is a secretive sniper unit that has admitted to deliberately targeting and killing #Palestiniancivilians in #Gaza, including unarmed individuals. This elite unit consists largely of dual nationals from several countries, including the #US, #Germany, #France, and others. Members of the unit, such as an American sniper named Daniel Raab, have publicly confessed to killing unarmed civilians, including members of the Doghmush family in Gaza. (1/3)

[followup] 'Flatten' Gaza, Halt Aid’: Who are Yehuda and Golan Vach and why they must be on ICC’s wanted list for war crimes in Gaza

Brigadier General Yehuda Vach, commander of the 252nd Division, is accused of implementing policies amounting to war crimes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. These include a stated objective to forcibly displace 250,000 residents from northern Gaza, obstructing humanitarian aid based on the premise that "there are no innocents in Gaza," and deploying an unauthorized force to indiscriminately demolish civilian infrastructure. Eyewitness accounts describe a policy of counting every dead Palestinian as a terrorist (echoed by complicit Israeli media like #Ynet daily) and the systematic flattening of homes to prevent residents from returning.

Vach was born and raised in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank. He attended the Bnei David pre-military academy in the settlement of Eli, an institution known for its religious Zionist ideology. He currently resides in the religious Kibbutz Meirav. His father was the head of the Kiryat Arba council, part of the illegal settlements movement.

[…] Regarding the humanitarian aid transferred to the Gaza Strip, Vach also had his own agenda. Vach explained to his subordinates that "as far as he's concerned, not a single truck should enter. We need to make it difficult and harass the convoys that enter." He also explained to them that "as far as he's concerned, there are no innocent civilians in Gaza" and that it's an "operational concept, everyone is a terrorist."

[…] In addition, Vach brought his brother, Colonel (res.) Golan Vach, into the area under his division's control. His brother operated a small force called "Tzama Pladot" (Heavy Engineering Equipment). This is "a team of soldiers and civilians who look like hilltop youth. The entire purpose of this force was to destroy Gaza," one of the officers recounted.

[…] Vach's conduct indicates a complete loss of control by the army commanders and consent – even if silent – to the operation of independent units, essentially an army within an army.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-01-02/ty-article-opinion/vachs-private-army-the-growing-gap-between-the-idf-and-rogue-commanders/00000194-23d6-dcc4-a1d7-3bf6b3370000 or https://archive.is/m1yI4

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/flatten-gaza-halt-aid-the-commander-overseeing-gazas-brutal-netzarim-corridor/00000194-223e-da14-adb7-767eb9790000 or https://archive.is/zEvDZ

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide
#WarCrimes
#ICC
#PalestinianCivilians
#SettlerColonialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akENIdaf5D0

#DemocracyNow 29 oct 2024 #news

⚠️ WARNING: I don't know what the fuck the media are thinking, but beware of the first story, with UNBLURRED images of dead bodies from the latest attacks on #PalestinianCivilians , leaving around 100 dead. Please take care ☮️

'The #IsraeliMilitary’s #bombing campaign in #Gaza used an #AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to #Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war.

the sources claim that Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of #PalestinianCivilians to be killed,

“You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people..."

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes
#IsraelHamasWar #Palestine #OPT #Israel #Lavender

.> ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded #Israel for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and #PalestinianCivilians (quoted by #WolfBlitzer, #JerusalemPost, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the #TerroristCancer," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the #TerroristPolicies Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating #PLOEfforts to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See #FatefulTriangle, Pirates & Emperors, and #NecessaryIllusions.

.> The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27

.> ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded #Israel for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and #PalestinianCivilians (quoted by #WolfBlitzer, #JerusalemPost, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the #TerroristCancer," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the #TerroristPolicies Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating #PLOEfforts to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See #FatefulTriangle, Pirates & Emperors, and #NecessaryIllusions.

.> The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27

.> ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded #Israel for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and #PalestinianCivilians (quoted by #WolfBlitzer, #JerusalemPost, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the #TerroristCancer," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the #TerroristPolicies Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating #PLOEfforts to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See #FatefulTriangle, Pirates & Emperors, and #NecessaryIllusions.

.> The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27

.> ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded #Israel for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and #PalestinianCivilians (quoted by #WolfBlitzer, #JerusalemPost, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the #TerroristCancer," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the #TerroristPolicies Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating #PLOEfforts to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See #FatefulTriangle, Pirates & Emperors, and #NecessaryIllusions.

.> The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27