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This Was Israel’s Excuse to Restart the War — And It Backfired · Kernow Damo

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  Right, so Israel's run out of excuses again,
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  so they've started digging up some new ones.
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  The bombing, as we know, never stopped. It just
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  got relabeled ceasefire, and now the latest moral
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  cover stories at Hamas sent them the wrong remains
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  of Israeli hostages, and they must have done
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  it on purpose. That's the hook. The pretext to
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  switch the war machine all back on. The trouble
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  is it's already fallen apart. Haaretz, one of
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  Israel's own papers, says Hamas warned them the
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  IDs were uncertain. Other outlets have said Israel
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  is blocking forensic tools and every DNA kit
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  that could have proved who was who and that they
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  banned the autopsy tools needed as well. Then
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  CENTCOM steps in with a miracle drone clip of
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  Hamas looting aid. One truck, no proof, just
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  propaganda. The whole thing stinks of coordination.
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  Washington and Israel now both fabricating stories
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  which get debunked. Israel of course fabricates
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  more moral outrage off the back of it despite
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  the clear lack of morals on show in their government.
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  And together it is becoming more and more obvious
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  that they're both clearing the runway to start
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  the genocide in full. All over again. Right,
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  so Israel's government is accusing Hamas of returning
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  the wrong remains. The claim runs like this,
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  you see. Hamas sent back bodies said to be Israeli
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  captives and forensic tests prove they weren't.
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  The insinuation is deliberate deceit, though,
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  that Hamas is mocking Israel by handing over
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  random corpses. It's a kind of story designed
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  to stir fury and reignite a war, isn't it? Once
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  you strip away all of their slogans, the whole
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  thing collapses under its own weight because
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  Israel already knew the remains were uncertain,
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  they were told as much beforehand, and they also
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  know full well that they've banned the equipment
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  that could have confirmed their identity back
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  in Gaza, and it's used that chaos as another
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  pretext, the last trigger to try and end this
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  blasted ceasefire which is threatening Netanyahu's
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  posterior on his gilded throne. Heretz reported
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  that Hamas had told Israel in advance it wasn't
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  sure who the remains belonged to. Channel 12
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  confirmed that Forensic tests later found they
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  didn't match any of the 11 Israeli captives to
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  learn accounted for. But it's also been revealed
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  that Israel itself has blocked all DNA testing
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  materials from entering Gaza. Euromed Human Rights
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  Monitor backed that up by listing the equipment
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  barred under the dual -use pretext, autopsy tools,
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  lab instruments, even cotton swabs for DNA analysis.
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  In other words, Israel destroyed the forensic
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  capacity, then blamed Hamas for the confusion
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  that then caused. Hamas's statement to it all
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  was rather blunt. It said its recovery teams
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  were still digging through debris where bodies
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  lay under collapsed towers and that they'd asked
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  international mediators and the Red Cross to
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  send in additional personnel and testing kits.
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  Israel refused. Instead its military brief journalists
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  said Hamas was delaying returns and violating
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  the terms of the ceasefire. That spin has turned
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  a logistical impossibility created by Israeli
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  bombardment and blockade into moral ammunition
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  for yet another offensive. We know who it works
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  by now, don't we? Meanwhile, the United States
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  stepped in to lend credibility to their narrative,
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  actually, by adding a story of its own. The US
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  Central Command, CENTCOM, announced that one
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  of its drones had spotted suspected Hamas operatives
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  looting an aid truck in southern Gaza. No proof,
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  just a short grainy clip and a caption. But the
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  video showed one vehicle, no clear insignia,
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  no timestamp, and yet American outlets ran it
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  as fact. CENTCOM claimed at least 600 aid trucks
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  enter Gaza daily, a figure that every humanitarian
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  agency on the ground immediately contradicted.
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  UNRWA, the OCHA, the World Food Programme, they
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  all said the real number was roughly a quarter
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  of that, sometimes far less. The Gaza Media Office
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  called the US claim fabricated and baseless,
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  describing it as part of a systematic disinformation
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  campaign aimed at discrediting the Palestinian
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  police who were escorting the envoys. Those police,
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  they reminded the world, have lost more than
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  a thousand officers whilst protecting aid deliveries
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  from airstrikes and from looting, looting from
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  gangs backed by Israel. The pattern ought to
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  be more than familiar to us by now. Israel needs
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  moral cover to break a truce and provided a reason
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  of their own for that, illegitimate as that might
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  be. The United States provides a story too that
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  makes that mindset look all the more justified.
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  It's the same choreography during every pause
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  before this, isn't it? Hamas accused of firing
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  first, Israel responding. The bombing resumes
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  and Washington nods gravely about Israel's right
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  to defend itself. This time though, the narrative
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  has started to unravel faster than usual because
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  the facts are visible and the contradictions
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  far too sharp to just bury like that. According
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  to Gaza's government media office, Israel has
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  allowed only 24 % of the agreed aid and commercial
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  trucks to enter under the ceasefire deal. That
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  figure was confirmed by independent monitoring
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  by the likes of the OCHA and the WFP. Israel
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  still restricts fuel, still restricts electricity.
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  still restricts medical supplies, the very things
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  that keep hospitals and morgues functioning.
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  So while Senkom is there accusing Hamas of stealing
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  one truck, Israel is openly blocking three -quarters
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  of all humanitarian aid. It's a siege disguised
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  as logistics management. The blockade is not
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  a side effect, it becomes the method. Dr. Amid
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  al -Farah, director of Al -Tahrir Hospital near
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  the Nasser Medical Complex, described what that
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  blockade meant in practice. He said that out
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  of every seven bodies brought in, only one can
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  be identified because Decomposition and injury
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  makes recognition almost impossible. Many show
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  burns, binding marks or evidence of extreme trauma.
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  Some, he said, were hollowed out, organs missing
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  and the cavities packed with cotton. Others bore
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  circular burns consistent with heated metal rods.
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  None of these details have been disproved. Israel
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  simply refuses access for independent forensic
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  teams to verify them. For the families waiting
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  at the gates there's no process, no paperwork,
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  no closure. just a line of unidentifiable corpses
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  in a state that controls even the right to know
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  who has died. The International Committee of
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  the Red Cross has confirmed that it facilitated
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  the transfer of remains between Hamas and Israel.
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  Its role is strictly humanitarian, but the ICRC
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  also said that Israel's obstruction of forensic
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  materials is crippling recovery efforts. When
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  a warring state blocks DNA kits, autopsy tools
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  and refrigeration units, It's not just breaching
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  medical protocol, it's destroying the chain of
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  evidence. And that's still on top of all the
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  bombing they're conducting going on. Without
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  that chain though, no war crimes tribunal can
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  function. So this is how accountability ends
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  up dying. This is why it's essential we get journalists
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  in there and why Israel is so resistant to that,
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  frankly terrified of the prospect. Israel insists
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  that this is about security, that DNA... kits
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  and lab instruments and even cotton swabs are
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  dual use and can be diverted for military purposes.
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  I am blowed if I can work out how Hamas can possibly
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  weaponize a cotton bud, but apparently they can.
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  It's a claim that just doesn't survive contact
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  with reality. It's a nonsense and yet it's still
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  accepted as fact. What's really being secured
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  here isn't safety, it's impunity. The blockade
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  doesn't just stop fuel, it stops proof. So everywhere
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  you look the same logic ends up applying. Hospitals
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  ration electricity not because Hamas wards fuel
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  but because Israel limits entry to a few trucks
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  a day. Bakeries close because the ovens can't
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  run without gas. Water stations shut down. Sewage
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  plants overflow. Disease spreads. Each failure
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  is later cited as evidence of Hamas mismanagement
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  when it is in fact the direct result of Israeli
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  policy restricting items being allowed into the
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  strip. This is why Gaza's authorities say 24%.
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  They're counting the gap between promises and
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  deliveries, between what's announced at press
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  conferences and what actually crosses the gate.
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  The hypocrisy peaks when Israel lectures about
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  dignity for his own dead. Palestinian families
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  receiving bodies from Israeli custody have documented
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  bound wrists, execution -style gunshots and missing
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  organs. Multiple media outlets have published
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  evidence of torture marks on those bodies as
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  well as calling for international forensic investigations
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  and Israel blocks that. I can't imagine why.
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  So the same government accusing Hamas of disrespecting
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  remains is returning corpses that medical professionals
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  describe rather charitably all things considered
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  as mutilated. At home, Israel's far right has
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  taken that logic further. National Security Minister
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  Itamar Ben -Gavir, for it is he, once again,
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  has renewed his push for a death penalty law
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  targeting Palestinians convicted in military
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  courts, courts already notorious for secret evidence
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  and coerced confessions. He appeared on video
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  yet again in a prison because he seems to be
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  making a habit of that of late, next to bound
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  prisoners demanding that terrorists be executed.
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  Hamas condemned it as state -endorsed revenge,
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  not justice, but Ben -Gavir's rhetoric fits the
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  pattern. Each step that dehumanizes Palestinians
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  becomes the moral groundwork for the next atrocity
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  and he's threatening to pull the plug on Netanyahu's
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  coalition if he doesn't get his wish. Meanwhile
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  Washington maintains the pose of mediator while
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  enabling every breach. It knows Israel is striking
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  targets during the supposed ceasefire. The OCHA
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  has logged the shelling and the drone fire almost
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  daily but it refuses to call those violations.
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  Instead US officials echo the line that Hamas
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  is undermining progress. The CENTCOM video is
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  just the latest attempt to reset the narrative,
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  to make the occupier look besieged and the besieged
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  to look criminal. And yet the numbers portray
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  the script. One unverified truck versus 300 trucks
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  a day denied entry at all. One alleged looting
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  against thousands of verified airstrikes. The
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  scale itself exposes the lie. But what all this
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  reveals is how information warfare has ended
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  up replacing diplomacy. The ceasefire is not
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  meant to hold, it's meant to perform stability
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  while Israel rearranges the battlefield. Its
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  yellow line within the Gaza Strip is proof of
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  that happening. Each breach becomes another test
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  of international tolerance. When outrage fades,
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  they push further. When headlines turn, they
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  hit again. The wrong remain story was supposed
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  to be the moral shock that justified resuming
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  strikes. Instead it backfired completely because
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  the documentation trail all points the other
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  way and more and more people are questioning
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  what Israel tell them. Israel engineered the
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  confusion it's now using as an excuse and is
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  getting called out for it. Forensic science is
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  supposed to be neutral. DNA doesn't care about
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  politics, you see. But when the state controls
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  the swabs and the microscopes, the truth itself
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  becomes contraband. The blockade of forensic
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  materials isn't just a technical issue, it becomes
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  a form of censorship. It stops Gaza doctors from
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  proving what was done to their patients. It stops
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  international investigators from building cases.
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  It turns the rubble into silence. That's why
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  this matters more than the propaganda cycle,
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  because without evidence there can be no accountability,
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  and without accountability every ceasefire is
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  just an interval between crimes. Even Israel's
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  domestic press has started to sense the danger.
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  Haaretz has published editorials warning that
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  Netanyahu's government is losing credibility
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  abroad, one of the few Israeli outlets that at
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  times holds them to account or tries to. The
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  longer it insists on stories that collapse under
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  scrutiny the more isolated it becomes, especially
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  as they get exposed. Each exposed falsehood weakens
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  the diplomatic shield that has kept the war going.
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  When a state's self -defense narrative depends
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  on blocking DNA kits and staging drone videos,
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  it's already lost the moral war. For Palestinians,
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  though, the cost is all too real. It's the daily
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  grind of hunger, disease and grief under blockade.
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  It's the mother waiting at a hospital door holding
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  a photograph. because the body inside has no
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  face left to match it. It's the medic trying
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  to keep a generator running long enough to take
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  one last sample before the fuel runs out. These
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  are not metaphors, they're the physical consequences
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  of this policy. Decisions taken, signatures inked,
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  shipments stopped. So when Israel tells the world
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  Hamas has broken the ceasefire, remember the
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  paperwork, remember the list of banned items,
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  the aid trucks turned away, the bodies sent to
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  Gaza stripped of organs and names, the evidence
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  isn't hidden, it's just treated as irrelevant.
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  But it's all there in the manifest and the reports,
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  the numbers that don't lie. 24 % of aid allowed
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  in, 11 bodies still missing, one lie, too many.
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  And they can shout about wrong remains and aid
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  theft all they like. The record shows who's withholding
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  the test kits and who's starving the hospitals
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  and who's afraid of the truth those tests would
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  prove. The blockade of evidence is the blockade
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  of Gaza itself and that's the part they can't
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  spin away because sooner or later every lie meets
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  a fact it can't bury. This one just did. Israel
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  really doesn't like it when the truth comes out.
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  It's why they have such a problem with individuals
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  such as Francesca Albanese, of course, even now
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  resorting to calling her a witch over her latest
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  report. Well, she had a response to that line
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  as it happens, and Israel liked that even less.
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