I’m a Palestinian journalist and activist fighting to save my community, Masafer Yatta, from forced eviction. #SaveMasaferYatta
Masafer Yatta
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The occupation court just decided: My community will be destroyed. I live in Massafer Yatta, Palestine. An unjust 23 year long trial ended today with a verdict of mass eviction. The army can now place us on trucks, 2,400 people, and expel us from our ancient villages, one by one.
🚨🚨 happening now: Israeli soldiers are surrounding a Palestinian family in Beit Furik, while an Israeli soldier threatens to open fire on them if they move as they harvest olives.
Basel Adra retweeted
This will get overshadowed by the attack on an American journalist, but half an hour after Heidi was beaten, the IDF shot a Palestinian man simply standing inside his own village.
Then the soldiers pointed an assault rifle at the paramedics trying to help the victim.
Basel Adra retweeted
American @washingtonpost journalist Heidi Levine was just severely beaten by settlers in Abu Falah. Videos coming in a minute.
Israel has deliberately transformed the Palestinian olive harvest into a war zone, where occupation soldiers and settlers wage an organized campaign of terror against Palestinian farmers on their own land.
And the world continues to turn a blind eye.
Basel Adra retweeted
Wtf!
Just arrived in Tel Aviv for coverage ahead of the Israeli elections
Only to be told the Israeli authorities are denying me entry to the country!
Have reported widely on Israel / Palestine for the past 4 years for @Channel4News
URGENT: They are now throwing stones at us from at house opposite and destroying the electricity poles serving the community. No international press, no one cares.
URGENT: Since yesterday, Israeli settlers, backed by occupation forces, have been besieging a Palestinian family in Wadi al-Rakhim. Dozens are surrounding the home, trapping the family inside
This is a growing tactic used to pressure Palestinian families into leaving their homes
Basel Adra retweeted
غفير يروي بنفسه أن سجان أرسل له صورة لوجبة أسير فلسطيني في سجن كتسيعوت بالنقب، فيها ثماني حبات زيتون بدل ست، فغادر بيته وسافر قرابة ثلاث ساعات إلى السجن بسبب حبّتي زيتون إضافيتين.
حين يصل الأمر إلى عد حبات الزيتون في صحن الأسير، نفهم حجم ما يُمارس بحق الأسرى، وكيف يمتد إلى أدق تفاصيل حياتهم.
داخل السجون الإسرائيلية، حتى الطعام تحول إلى أداة للتنكيل وحتى لقمة الأسير لم تعد خارج دائرة الاستهداف.
Basel Adra retweeted
بعد قليل..
بدء الاستعدادات لتشييع رفات شهداء مجزرة مربع التاج السكني في غزة وعددهم 105 شهيداً بعد انتشالهم من تحت أنقاض المباني المدمرة خلال الحرب .
#شاهد | هكذا ارتكب جيش الاحتلال "الإسرائيلي" مجزرة مربع "التاج" السكني بمدينة غزة في أكتوبر 2023م. استُهدف المربع بـ 20 قنبلة ثقيلة أمريكية الصنع من طراز (GBU-31)، يزن رأس الواحدة منها قرابة 1 طن، مما أدى إلى مسح المربع السكني بالكامل وتسويته بالأرض فوق رؤوس أكثر من 500 مدني.
أسفرت المجزرة في مرحلتها الأولى عن انتشال 120 شهيداً، ومؤخراً تم انتشال رفات 101 شهيد إضافي، ليصل إجمالي الجثامين المُنتشلة إلى (221 شهيداً)، بينما تبخرت وصُهرت أجساد عشرات الشهداء الآخرين نتيجة القوة التدميرية الهائلة ووحشية القصف.
#غزة #الإبادة_الجماعية #مجزرة_التاج
Basel Adra retweeted
Palestinian child Mohammed Al-Zeinati rushed to rescue Civil Defense worker Sharif Lubbad.
Israel then fired a second missile, killing Mohammed.
Basel Adra retweeted
Two things can be true: NAZA is a crucial documentary evidence against genocide deniers
We live in a frighteningly hypocritical world that applauds Israelis who call out apartheid & genocide while shaming & disbelieving Palestinians who say the exact same words
Like when German Culture Minister Claudia Roth said her applauds at 2024 Berlinale were solely directly at Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham & not his Palestinian co-director Basel Adra who was with him on stage
An Israeli saying genocide & apartheid is "brave" & "extraordinary". A Palestinian using the same words is "radical", "extremist", "propagandist", "antisemite", & "uncompromising"
Palestinian testimonies & evidence are treated as "biased", "exaggerated", "unreliable", until Israelis say otherwise!
We need a former Israeli prime minister to say there's ethnic cleansing in the West Bank for European governments to believe it
We need a former Israeli foreign minister to say that Camp David was a scam & that if he was a Palestinian he would've rejected it, in order to debunk the myth of the "most generous Israeli peace offer"
We need the Israeli newspaper Haaretz to say Israel is torturing Palestinians to death in detention camps for the world to believe what we've been documenting & saying for years
We always need an Israeli to add legitimacy & credibility to our meticulous & impeccable evidence
That shouldn't mean discounting Israeli dissenting voices who speak up; it doesn't mean devaluing the important work they do & the risks they take when they call out their own country's crimes. There's already been a giant wave of attacks from Israeli government & opposition leaders against the filmmakers of NAZA
Shame & anger should be directed at mainstream places who suppress & sideline Palestinian voices while elevating Israelis who say the exact same message
The game is rigged against us. But that doesn't mean attacking Israeli dissidents like Yuval. It should rather mean that we & Israeli anti-apartheid activists should jointly call out & condemn those who set the rules of the game at every possible opportunity until Palestinian voices are heard & believed
What do our people stand to gain from attacking Yuval & discrediting this movie? Activism is about what works, what makes a difference, not what feels good. NAZA is an important & crucial documentary that must be seen all around the world.
The same four bulldozers and military forces have returned to Masafer Yatta, destroying large parts of Fakheit village right now and forcing more Palestinian families into the open.
Entire communities are being torn apart, homes destroyed, and families left with nowhere to go.
HAPPENING NOW: Known settler Betzalel Talya arrested my brother, Salem Adra, as he helped the people of Tabaan clear the rubble of their homes, which the occupation army destroyed last week.
Four Israeli military bulldozers, backed by heavily armed forces, are destroying the Palestinian village of Al-Taban in Masafer Yatta right now.
Homes and livelihoods are being demolished as we speak.
On Friday, August 21, dozens of settlers entered Hima al-Roush, Sa’ir, accompanied by a masked settlement security guard in military-style clothing. The attack resulted in the killing of 17-year-old Karim Shalaldeh and the serious injury of 71-year-old Samara al-Tarouh.
The settlers then set fire to a house before leaving toward the settlement outpost they had established on the edge of the village about a year ago.
