AP finds evidence of lots of people killed by Islamic Jihad rockets - and Palestinians trying to hide them

AP actually did some reporting and researched the Gazans killed by rocket fire. Based on that and other information, I have updated by database of people killed in Gaza and how.

Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an Israeli military assessment that appears consistent with independent reporting by The Associated Press.

No one in Gaza with direct knowledge of the explosions in question was willing to speak about them publicly. But live TV footage showed militant rockets falling short in densely packed residential neighborhoods. And AP visits to the sites of two explosions that killed a total of 12 people lent support to suspicions they were caused by rockets that went off course.

Islamic Jihad said 12 of its fighters were killed, a smaller armed group said it lost a fighter, and Hamas said two Hamas-affiliated policemen who did not take part in the fighting were killed. Israel said it killed at least 20 militants and seven civilians.  

 On Saturday night, seven Palestinians were killed in a blast in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Israeli military said it carried out no operations in the area at the time. It released video footage purportedly showing a barrage of militant rockets, with one falling short.

Islamic Jihad had announced a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, just north of Jebaliya, at around the same time as the explosion.

Video footage of the aftermath circulated online, showing what appeared to be a rocket casing sticking out of the ground on a narrow, busy street. When the AP visited the site on Monday, the casing was gone and the hole had been filled in with dirt. Palestinians are usually keen to display evidence of Israeli airstrikes to international media.

Al-Mezan attributed the blast to a “projectile,” and the PCHR said it was still investigating.

On Sunday night, an explosion killed five Palestinians ages 4 to 17 at a cemetery in Jebaliya, also around the same time Islamic Jihad announced a barrage of rockets. The Israeli military said it was investigating.

Visiting both sites in Jebaliya, the AP saw none of the telltale signs of an Israeli strike — the wide craters left by F-16s or the narrow holes caused by drone strikes.

In a third suspicious explosion, one of the Hamas-affiliated policemen, who was off-duty, was killed Sunday along with three of his young children in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Hamas, a far more powerful militant group that has fought four wars with Israel, stayed out of the latest fighting, and Israel appears to have been careful not to target it.

I haven't yet identified the "smaller armed group" terrorist AP references. (UPDATE: Adin Haykin mentions that Hassan Mansour was also claimed by the DFLP as well as Islamic Jihad.)

It hadn't occurred to me that the Hamas policeman who was killed with his children was killed by rocket fire. This means that, based on my research, 14 children were killed - and 11 of them by rocket fire! (Two were human shields, one was killed near a wedding that is still unclear.)

It is clear from this article that not only does the Hamas-based health ministry lie about people killed by terror rockets - so do the "human rights" NGOs. If they don't claim someone was killed by Israel, then certainly that person was killed by a rocket, but they won't report it.

The human rights of those Gazans don't matter.

Here is my updated list of people killed in Gaza and whether they were killed by Israel or Islamic Jihad rockets:

1- Imad Abd al-Rahim Shallah, 50 Gaza.	With PIJ
2- Youssef Salman Qaddoum 24 Gaza.	PIJ
3- Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Jabari, 50 Gaza City.	PIJ
4- Salama Muharib Abed 41 Gaza.	PIJ
5- Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, 5 Gaza City.	With PIJ
6- Donyana Adnan Attia Al-Amour 22 Gaza.	Likely rocket ("artillery shell")
7- Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun, 26 Al-Nada Towers.	PIJ
8- Fadl Mustafa Zorob 30 Khan Younis.	PIJ
9- Muhammad Hassan Al-Bayouk, 35, Khan Younis.	PIJ
10- Ahmed Mazen Azzam, 25 Gaza Strip.	PIJ
11- Tamim Ghassan Abdullah Hijazi, 23 Al-Zana.	PIJ
12- Osama Abdul Rahman Al-Suri, 27, Bani Suhaila.	PIJ
13- Hassan Mohamed Mansour, 26, Jabalia.	PIJ/DFLP
14- Naama Muhammad Abu Qaida 62 Jabalia.	Apparent rocket(wedding)
15- Nour El-Din Ali Al-Zubaidi 19 Jabalia	Likely IDF (Qassam Brigades)
16- Hazem Muhammad Salem 12 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
17- Ahmad Muhammad Al-Nayrab 13 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
18- Moamen Muhammad Al-Nairab 4 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
19 - Khalil Iyad Abu Hamadeh, 19, Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
20- Ahmed Walid Al-Fram, 18 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
21- Misbah al-Khatib 50 Jabalia agreed.	Jabalia rocket
22- Muhammad Muhammad Ibrahim Zaqout 19 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
23- Ziad Ahmed Al Mudallal, 36 Rafah.	PIJ
24- Muhammad Iyad Hassouna, 14 Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
25- Ismail Abdel Hamid Mohamed Salameh, 30 Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
26- Hana Ismail Ali Salameh, 51, Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
27- Rafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, 45, Rafah.	PIJ
28- Khaled Saeed Mansour 47 Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
29- Alaa Saleh Al-Tahrawi, 30, Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
30- Ahmad Muhammad Afana, 31, Jabalia.	Hamas (but not target)
31- Dia Zuhair Al-Borai, 30 Jabalia.	Rocket (House in Jabalia)
32- Jamil Ehab Najm 15 Jabalia.	Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)
33- Jamil Najm Najm 6 Jabalia.	Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)
34- Nazmi Fayez Abu Karsh 16 Jabalia.	Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)
35- Hamed Haider Najm 17 Jabalia.	Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)
36-Mohamed Salah Najm 17 Jabalia.	Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)
37- Muhammad Yasser Nimr Al-Nabahin 13	Rocket (Al Bureij)
38- Ahmed Yasser Nimr Al Nabahin 9 Al-Bureij.	Rocket (Al Bureij)
39- Dalia Yasser Nimr Al Nabaheen 13 Al Bureij.	Rocket (Al Bureij)
40 - Yasser Nimr Mahmoud Al Nabahin 45 Al-Bureij.	Rocket (Al Bureij), Hamas police
41 - Khaled Ayman Yassin, 27 Zaytoun	Apparent IDF attack
42- Shady Emad Nimr Kahil, 27 Zaytoun	Apparent IDF attack on municipal worker
43- Abd al-Rahman Jum’ah al-Silk 19 al-Shuja’iyya.	Apparent IDF attack
44- Mahmoud Daoud in Gaza	Apparent IDF attack, Hamas policeman
45- Haneen Walid Abu Qaida, 10	Apparent rocket (wedding)
46- Fatima Obaid, 15	Rocket (Beit Hanoun)
47-  Ibrahim Shehda Abu Salah, Beit Hanoun	Apparently killed with #15

48- Lian Al-Shaer, 10, killed from the attack that killed PIJ members 8 and 9 above.


I made a mock-up of the New York Times lampooning their front page last year where they published photos of dozens of children supposedly killed in Gaza, blaming Israel. They had never done anything like that before and they are never going to do that for these children killed by Islamic Jihad. (I've updated the data since I made this poster.)

(h/t Abu Ali Express)

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Gaza casualties, by the numbers: Islamic Jihad killed more Gaza civilians than Israel did (update)

The Hamas health ministry issued their list of 43 people killed over the weekend. Here is my preliminary analysis.

Bolded names are children.

1- Imad Abd al-Rahim Shallah, 50 Gaza.	With PIJ
2- Youssef Salman Qaddoum 24 Gaza.	PIJ
3- Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Jabari, 50 Gaza City.	PIJ
4- Salama Muharib Abed 41 Gaza.	PIJ
5- Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, 5 Gaza City.	With PIJ
6- Donyana Adnan Attia Al-Amour 22 Gaza.	Likely PIJ rocket
7- Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun, 26 Al-Nada Towers.	PIJ
8- Fadl Mustafa Zorob 30 Khan Younis.	PIJ
9- Muhammad Hassan Al-Bayouk, 35, Khan Younis.	PIJ
10- Ahmed Mazen Azzam, 25 Gaza Strip.	PIJ
11- Tamim Ghassan Abdullah Hijazi, 23 Al-Zana.	PIJ
12- Osama Abdul Rahman Al-Suri, 27, Bani Suhaila.	PIJ
13- Hassan Mohamed Mansour, 26, Jabalia.	PIJ
14- Naama Muhammad Abu Qaida 62 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
15- Nour El-Din Ali Al-Zubaidi 19 Jabalia	Likely PIJ rocket
16- Hazem Muhammad Salem 12 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
17- Ahmad Muhammad Al-Nayrab 13 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
18- Moamen Muhammad Al-Nairab 4 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
19 - Khalil Iyad Abu Hamadeh, 19, Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
20- Ahmed Walid Al-Fram, 18 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
21- Misbah al-Khatib 50 Jabalia agreed.	Jabalia rocket
22- Muhammad Muhammad Ibrahim Zaqout 19 Jabalia.	Jabalia rocket
23- Ziad Ahmed Al Mudallal, 36 Rafah.	PIJ
24- Muhammad Iyad Hassouna, 14 Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
25- Ismail Abdel Hamid Mohamed Salameh, 30 Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
26- Hana Ismail Ali Salameh, 51, Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
27- Rafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, 45, Rafah.	PIJ
28- Khaled Saeed Mansour 47 Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
29- Alaa Saleh Al-Tahrawi, 30, Rafah.	With PIJ in Rafah
30- Ahmad Muhammad Afana, 31, Jabalia.	Hamas (but not target)
31- Dia Zuhair Al-Borai, 30 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
32- Jamil Ehab Najm 15 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
33- Jamil Najm Najm 6 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
34- Nazmi Fayez Abu Karsh 16 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
35- Hamed Haider Najm 17 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
36-Mohamed Salah Negm 17 Jabalia.	Likely PIJ rocket
37- Muhammad Yasser Nimr Al-Nabahin 13 Al-Bureij.	With Hamas (son)
38- Ahmed Yasser Nimr Al Nabahin 9 Al-Bureij.	With Hamas (son)
39- Dalia Yasser Nimr Al Nabaheen 13 Al Bureij.	With Hamas (son)
40 - Yasser Nimr Mahmoud Al Nabahin 45 Al-Bureij.	Hamas
41 - Khaled Ayman Yassin, 27 Zaytoun	Unknown
42- Shady Emad Nimr Kahil, 27 Zaytoun	Unknown
43- Abd al-Rahman Jum’ah al-Silk 19 al-Shuja’iyya.	Unknown

We know seven people were killed by an errant Islamic Jihad rocket in Jabalia. There was another set of deaths, five children, in the Fallujah cemetery in Jabalia that look to be from an errant rocket as well based on photos of the damage. I am counting several other likely errant rockets based on the descriptions of their deaths in PCHR as being from "shrapnel" or, in some cases, in an "open field" where it would make no sense for the IDF to attack.

One Hamas member, Yasser Nabahin, seems to have been targeted by the IDF, and he was near his three sons who were also killed. I don't know if this was an accident or if he was actively fighting with Islamic Jihad. Hamas' obituary does not say he died while fighting, but if he went rogue, they wouldn't say that. 

Another Hamas member, Ahmad Afana, was apparently killed when a wall collapsed on him as he was trying to extricate people from a building, so he wasn't killed by Israel.

This would mean that the IDF killed 13 terrorists. There were 10 civilians killed as human shields or collateral damage. Islamic Jihad killed (or likely killed) 16 civilians with rocket fire that fell short. Three I do not yet know, and one was an accidental death. 

The Jerusalem Post quotes the IDF with somewhat different statistics, but a similar number of people killed by PIJ rockets:

The Palestinians, however, reported a total of 35 deaths out of which 26 were innocent bystanders. Of the 26, 11 were killed in Israeli airstrikes, and 15 were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets that failed to clear Gaza.

I don't know why they say 35 total when the Gaza authorities said 43. (Some reports say 44.)

Either way, Islamic Jihad killed far more civilians than Israel did. 

UPDATE: Here is a photo of the room where Donyana al-Amour (#6) was killed. The spray patterns on the walls (small shrapnel holes)  indicate it was a PIJ rocket.  (h/t Abu Ali Express)

UPDATE 2: Another child, Fatima Abeid, was killed by this rocket that fell on Beit Hanoun as can be seen in this video. (h/t Abu Ali Express)

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Here's one way to tell that Palestinians were likely killed by Islamic Jihad rockets

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights puts out bulletins that are the most detailed available on airstrikes in Gaza. 

It blames all incidents on Israel, of course. But a little reading between the lines shows that many of the supposed strikes are actually from Islamic Jihad rockets falling short in Gaza.

The IDF has documented well over a hundred of such failed rocket launches:

When PCHR writes about an IDF "shell" causing deaths or damage, it can safely be assumed that this was a rocket. IDF bombs are devastating in the damage they cause and IDF intelligence is quite good at targeting; as far as I can tell the IDF is not using any artillery yet in Gaza. 

IDF strikes look like this:

If there is only a small hole in the roof, it isn't from the IDF.

When PCHR says random people are killed by "shells" that indicates a failed Gaza rocket launch.

Here are some:

8/5 16:20: an artillery shell fell on a house belonging to ‘Adnan ‘Atiyah al-‘Amour in al-Fokhari area, eastern Khan Younis.  As a result, the owner’s 22-year-old daughter, Doniana, was killed after sustaining shrapnel wounds all over her body.

At approximately 23:20 on Friday, 05 August 2022, 5 Palestinians, including a mother and her 3 children, were injured after an artillery shell landed on Foad Ghazi ‘Abdullah Farajallah’s house in Jabalia refugee camp, causing material damage to it.

At around 00:15 on Saturday, 06 August 2022, an artillery shell fell on the roof of Al-Quds Open University building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, causing a hole in its roof and damage to the study halls. 

15:55: IOF fired a shell at a group of people gathering in front of Hussein ‘Ali al-Zuwaidi’s house, northeastern Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip.  As a result, 2 civilians, including the house owner’s son, Nour Al-Deen (18), sustained shrapnel wounds all over their bodies.  Due to their serious condition, they were referred to al-Shifa Hospital, where Nour al-Deen was pronounced dead at around 18:30.

We've documented PCHR lies many times. By default, they assume every death is from Israeli fire, and they never correct their information after it is shown that they are wrong. 

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Amnesty has different interpretations of international law for Israel in Gaza and for everywhere else

Amnesty issued a report yesterday about Ukrainian forces violating international law:

Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International said today. 

Such tactics violate international humanitarian law and endanger civilians, as they turn civilian objects into military targets. The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure. 

As far as I can tell, Amnesty has never said anything close to this concerning Hamas purposefully placing its rockets, tunnels, command and control centers and ammunition depots within or underneath residential areas. To be sure, they say that Hamas shouldn't do this, but they never say the (accurate) statement that placing military objects in civilian areas change the areas themselves into military targets.

Military targets are valid targets under international law. Of course, the attacker must do everything possible to minimize civilian deaths and damage, and weigh the value of the target against the expected damage to civilians. But they are not obligated to avoid attacking areas where valid military objects are just because they are placed in a civilian area.

The only time I could find the word "military targets" used in this context on an Amnesty report about Gaza was during the 2009 Gaza war, when Amnesty said nearly the opposite in regard to Israel: “Fighters on both sides must not carry out attacks from civilian areas but when they do take cover behind a civilian house or building to fire it does not make that building and its civilian inhabitants a legitimate military target. Any such attacks are unlawful.”

An Amnesty search for the words "legitimate military target" shows that it mentions that attacks on military objects embedded in civilian areas in Afghanistan, Syria, Yugoslavia and elsewhere  are legitimate as long as the attack doesn't have a  disproportionate impact on civilians. 

In every case, militants purposefully hiding themselves or their weapons in a civilian area makes the area a legitimate military target. With Israel in Gaza, it does not make make the area a legitimate military target.

Different international law standards for Israel and everyone else? That's standard operating procedure for Amnesty. 

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That isn't the only double standard even in that one Amnesty Gaza document. They say there,

“Our sources in Gaza report that Israeli soldiers have entered and taken up positions in a number of Palestinian homes, forcing families to stay in a ground floor room while they use the rest of their house as a military base and sniper position,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme. “This clearly increases the risk to the Palestinian families concerned and means they are effectively being used as human shields.”

But when Hamas shoots from residential areas, Amnesty does everything possible to exonerate them from the charge of human shielding:

Amnesty International is monitoring and investigating such reports, but does not have evidence at this point that Palestinian civilians have been intentionally used by Hamas or Palestinian armed groups during the current hostilities to “shield” specific locations or military personnel or equipment from Israeli attacks. In previous conflicts Amnesty International has documented that Palestinian armed groups have stored munitions in and fired indiscriminate rockets from residential areas in the Gaza Strip in violation of international humanitarian law. Reports have also emerged during the current conflict of Hamas urging residents to ignore Israeli warnings to evacuate. However, these calls may have been motivated by a desire to minimize panic and displacement, in any case, such statements are not the same as directing specific civilians to remain in their homes as “human shields” for fighters, munitions, or military equipment. Under international humanitarian law even if “human shields” are being used Israel’s obligations to protect these civilians would still apply.

Besides the obvious double standard of changing the definition of human shields, note that Amnesty believes reports of the IDF forcing residents to stay in their homes - but goes out of its way not to believe reports that Hamas demands that residents stay in their homes. 

(h/t Akiva Cohen)

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Hamas Understands Israel Has A Means Of Deterrence That May Be Even Stronger Than Iron Dome (Daled Amos)

By Daled Amos

Last week, Israel announced plans to build an industrial zone next to Gaza, creating thousands of new jobs for Palestinian Arabs. This news comes at a time when the number of Palestinian Arabs working in Israel has been increasing.

In an article for The Algemeiner, Elder of Ziyon notes data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicating that the number of Palestinian Arabs working in Israel has jumped:

The number of Palestinian workers in Israel and the settlements skyrocketed from 153,000 to 204,000, an increase of 33% in a single quarter. Of those, the number of workers in settlements — which the Palestinian Authority opposes — went up from 22,4000 to 31,000, an increase of 38%. [emphasis added]

Despite the PA's official disapproval of Arabs working in Judea and Samaria, historically they have had to admit that they cannot offer an alternative to employment in the settlements. Already in 2011, Shahar Saad, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Workers' Union

stated that despite the desire to implement the decisions of the PA leadership regarding the boycott of products and workers in the settlements, the implementation of that decision is difficult. According to him, the Palestinian Authority does not produce enough alternative jobs. [adapted from Google translation from Hebrew]

For Israel, creating jobs and providing employment for Palestinian Arabs makes sense, though the motivation differs between creating jobs for West Bank Arabs and Arabs from Gaza.

Last year, The Times of Israel reported that Israel was distributing 16,000 new work permits, in an effort to support the Palestinian economy which faced reduced international aid and a difficult year due to the pandemic. But more than shoring up Abbas,

“This measure will strengthen the Israeli and Palestinian economies, and will largely contribute to the security stability in the area of Judea and Samaria. Economic stability is the key to preserving security in the region,” said COGAT head Ghassan Alian in a statement.

That's all well and good for Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, but is Israel creating this new industrial zone in order to shore up Hamas in Gaza?

Back in 2020, The Associated Press reported that Israel was increasing the number of work permits for Gazans from 5,000 to 7,000. According to the article, this was part of an unofficial truce negotiated by Egypt between Israel and Hamas in exchange for a reduction in rocket fire from Gaza and in the number of weekly protests along the border.

But the following year, when additional permits were distributed, the rationale was different. There were 3,000 more work permits made available, bringing the number of permits up to 10,000. And this time the reason for the new work permits was clear:

COGAT said the permissions are “conditional upon the continued preservation of the region’s security stability for the long term.” [emphasis added]

Haaretz puts this into perspective.

In April, the paper claimed that according to Israel's military intelligence assessment, Hamas was not prepared for war and was unlikely to respond with its own violence in response to clashes between Arabs and Israeli forces in Jerusalem. But the reason for Hamas's reluctance was more than just because it was still recovering from the fighting last year. There are approximately 15,000 Gazans working in Israel, providing important support for the Gazan economy. But there is more to it than that:

These workers have become a powerful lobby in Gaza, and Hamas' leader in the enclave, Yahya Sinwar, is said to take their position into consideration. Any hasty action by Sinwar against Israel could prompt harsh criticism from this group.

...Sinwar, who was nearly deposed in an internal vote for Hamas' leadership last year, is now also taking credit for major infrastructure projects in Gaza. A war would endanger any progress the Gazan economy has made, and therefore, Israeli officials say, Sinwar would like to refrain from escalation. [emphasis added]

This would explain Sinwar's change in tactics, from inciting Gazans against Israel to inciting Arabs in Israel, claiming that Hamas is the defender of Al Aqsa and calling on them to attack Jews in order to defend it.

But Gazan employment in Israel is apparently not the only source of pressure on Sinwar.

Last week, Hamas announced that the health of one of the 2 Israeli hostages it holds is in danger. The terrorist group is trying to use them as bargaining chips to gain the release of terrorists and the periodic updates about their health is psychological manipulation towards that end. However, both of them suffer from mental illness, and because of the sympathy that creates, the Hamas exploitation of the hostages is not getting the leaders the response they expected.

And that is another problem for Sinwar:

Hamas needs a deal because of the important status of the security prisoners in the eyes of the Palestinian public, and because of a pledge that hasn’t been fulfilled: When Sinwar was released from prison in 2011, in the Shalit deal, he promised his associates who remained behind that he would help get them freed. [emphasis added]

When it was first suggested that Hamas should be included in the 2007 elections in Gaza, it was suggested that having the responsibilities of government would have "a moderating influence" on the terrorist group. The current situation is not a confirmation of that suggestion. The issue of Gazans working in Israel is not a moderating influence -- it is pressure applied by Israel on Sinwar to maintain calm in order to protect his position and stay in power, even as he tries to take credit for this boost to the economy. His "campaign promise" to his fellow terrorists, on the other hand, applies pressure on Sinwar to foment violence.

Al-Monitor claims that Israel is in fact taking a degree of risk every time it takes steps to either create new jobs for Palestinian Arabs or distributes additional work permits. According to this view, these workers could potentially be recruited to carry out attacks inside Israel. Such concerns are all the more credible in light of the violence we have seen Hamas instigate.

The same article also claims that while Hamas instigating attacks on Israel could threaten the employment opportunities for Gazans in Israel and ultimately harm the Gazan economy, there is an external threat to those jobs as well. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been an influx of Ukrainian immigrants to Israel. In March, Interior Affairs Minister Ayelet Shaked said in an interview with Al-Monitor that "between 100,000 and 200,000 Jews could immigrate to Israel in the coming months.” It remains to be seen if Ukrainian immigration will put a dent in the number of jobs available for Palestinian Arabs, though that industrial zone being built in Israel adjacent to Gaza would indicate it might not.

For years, Hamas terrorist leaders have been exploiting Gazans as human shields for protection in order to evade the consequences of their actions. Yet, regardless of how they feel about Israel, Gazans are practical enough to work there in order to make a living -- and they expect Sinwar and the other Hamas leaders not to mess up their opportunity to support their families, something that Hamas on its own is consistently failing to do.

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@Airwars takes a chapter from @Amnesty - creating a database that declares terrorists to be "civilians" (@DigFind_)

In 2015, Amnesty International created a website called the Gaza Platform, created with Forensic Architecture, that claimed to identify every casualty in the 2014 Gaza war and the circumstances around the incident.

As I showed at the time, the database was filled with inaccuracies, and many of the people that they claimed were civilian were in fact terrorists. Amnesty was aware of my research showing terrorists in their uniforms with guns that they called "civilian" and chose to keep the lies in the database - which is still available, today.

Airwars is another NGO that purports to document the innocent victims of war, and they do just what Amnesty did - they are calling legitimate military targets "civilians."

This is a Twitter thread by open source researcher DigFind on this:

Our investigation finds that award winning non-profit company @airwars is whitewashing terrorism with the help of high profile donors.

Airwars' interactive map project detailing the "civilian casualties" in Gaza was nominated for @amnesty media awards 2022.

Airwars is based at Goldsmiths, University of London @GoldsmithsUoL. Chris Woods @chrisjwoods is the founder and until yesterday the director. Chris also sits on Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi's Advisory Board. 

Previously, Amnesty International @amnesty and Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi teamed up to create the "Gaza Platform", an online data visualization app that describes many known Palestinian terrorists as civilian casualties of the 2014 Gaza War.

Mohammed Barham Abu Draz (محمد برهم على أبو دراز) was a member of Al Qassam Brigades - a terrorist organization. He is listed as civilian casualty.
gazaplatform.amnesty.org/#1528

Same for Alaa’ Jamal Barda (علاء جمال بردع). He was a field commander with the same terror group.

https://gazaplatform.amnesty.org/#1528

Airwars receives funding from Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust @jrct_uk, Open Society Foundations @OpenSociety, Stichting Democratie en Media, Reva and David Logan Foundation, and J. Leon Foundation. 

On Airwars' Advisory Board are anti-Israel boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS)supporting Raed Jarrar @raedjarrar and Chris Cobb-Smith @CobbSmith. Both also linked to Amnesty.

@NGOmonitor background information on the two:

ngo-monitor.org/amnesty-usas-n…

CNN Cites Consultant Who Teams Up with NGOs to Bash IsraelOn May 24, 2022, CNN published an article alleging that evidence suggests that Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces. This inflammatory charge, which was vehemently denied …https://www.ngo-monitor.org/cnn-cites-consultant-who-teams-up-with-ngos-to-bash-israel/

Amnesty-USA’s Newest Anti-Israel HiresAmnesty International and its various country branches systematically hire researchers and campaigners with histories of anti-Israel activism. These employees write analyses on Israel that are both in…https://www.ngo-monitor.org/amnesty-usas-newest-anti-israel-hires/

Some examples of "civilian casualties" that were actual Hamas, Fatah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.

Ezz El-Din Mohamed Helles (عز الدين محمد حلس) - member Al Qassam Brigades

Muhammad Yahya Abu Al-Atta (محمد يحيى أبو العطا) - field commander al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Muhammad Saeed Abu Al-Atta (محمد سعيد ابوالعطا) - field commander Al Qassam Brigades.

Osama Ashraf Abu Rida (اسامه اشرف ابو ريده) - Activist Fatah youth. Fatah Movement Eastern Region referred to him as their martyr hero.

Zaher Atya Anbar (زاهر عطية عنبر) - member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - Nidal Al-Amoudi Brigade, a Gaza based armed group.

Yasser Al-Masry Abu Musab (ياسر المصري ابو مصعب) - Commander of the Deir al-Balah Brigade in Saraya al-Quds. Recently he died of injuries sustained in May 2021. Airwars' assessment of the IDF strike on Al-Masry - "civilian harm"

I'd like to add that when someone is misidentified as a civilian, it not only affects the raw statistics of the victims. If the IDF has a legitimate target that was of a high enough value, then under the laws of armed conflict they are allowed to attack it even if there are civilians that will be harmed. This is not a carte blanche to attack anyone without regard to civilians, but if the target is someone or something that is important enough, some collateral damage is acceptable according to the principle of proportionality.

This means that any civilians who were effectively used as human shields by the terrorists cannot be treated as if they were killed far away from any target. Unlike how NGOs like Amnesty and HRW frame it, their deaths are legal. Only if there was no military gain from the attack does it violate the laws of war. When NGOs pretend that every civilian is a victim of Israel, they have it backwards: they died because Hamas and other terrorists hid behind them.

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