In Occupied Palestine
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Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 07 September until 08:00, 08 September 2024
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Gaza Strip
Attacks: There are no safe places for the militarily-dominated population in Gaza, who find themselves subjected to airstrikes and other missile attacks on buildings, homes and many essentialfacilities, as well as constant gunfire and invasions by Israeli forces. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the entire Gaza shoreline.
Victims: 33 more people killed in Gaza now bring the total number of deaths, since 7 October, to at least 40,972. With another 145 wounded, that figure has now risen to over 94,761. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 121 and, of those injured, more than 282.
German envoy admits he spread lie about 7 October mass rapes
Ali Abunimah | 29 August 2024
The German ambassador in Tel Aviv has admitted that he spread fabricated Israeli atrocity propaganda intended to give credence to Israel’s debunked claims of mass rapes by Palestinian fighters on 7 October 2023. “I regret having believed – like so many others – that that suicide letter was real. It turns out it was a fake,” Ambassador Steffen Seibert posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. “I find this an appalling act given that so many real lives were taken at the Nova festival, so many crimes committed, so many souls destroyed.”
Last week, Seibert shared a letter purporting to be from an Israeli who died by suicide because he was unable to live with the trauma he experienced at the Supernova rave on 7 October. The fake letter was widely disseminated after it was shared by two notorious Israeli propagandists, Hen Mazzig, who translated it to English, and Aviva Klompas. Mazzig had claimed that “After miraculously surviving the October 7 massacre, the young Israeli man decided to end his life after witnessing too many horrors, including the rape of a girl.”
“The overwhelming weight of everything he saw, heard and experienced, along with his inability to save the girl being assaulted nearby, made him feel incapable of continuing his life.”
Mazzig works for an Israeli propaganda outfit called the Tel Aviv Institute. Klompas, a former Israeli government speechwriter, is the CEO of another lobby group called Boundless Israel. Both have been very active in pushing Israel’s debunked claims of mass rapes on 7 October.
Hoax collapses
The suicide letter hoax appears to have been an attempt to lend new credence to an atrocity propaganda narrative that has completely fallen apart under scrutiny from independent media, including The Electronic Intifada. This latest hoax collapsed when Israeli media tried to follow up and interview the family of the supposed suicide victim.
“A story that ran in recent days about a Nova survivor who saw horrors and committed suicide, did not leave a single dry eye,” Adam Shafir, the producer of Israeli Channel 13’s current affairs program Hatzinor (The Pipeline), posted on X on Thursday. “After trying to reach the family, to tell their story, the search turned into an investigation,” Shafir added. “We will reveal tonight on The Pipeline that it is a complete fake.”
Caught red-handed, Mazzig was forced to issue a disingenuous apology.
Top German officials spread lies
Absent this high-profile debunking by Israeli media, there is little reason to believe the German ambassador would have acknowledged his role in spreading this instance of rape atrocity propaganda.Seibert has repeatedly spread the mass rapes hoax, and has not retracted his support for that lie. Seibert is a former presenter on the German state television channel ZDF. From 2010 to 2021, he served as the German government’s chief spokesperson.
Indeed, disseminating atrocity propaganda that aids and attempts to justify Israel’s German-armed genocide of Palestinians appears to be German government policy. In May, Seibert’s boss, foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, lied at an event in Berlin that she had personally watched a film of a 7 October rape in progress filmed by a member of Hamas. This was impossible, because Israeli government security agencies and a UN report have confirmed that among the thousands of photographs and videos made on 7 October, no video of a rape has been found.
When a journalist challenged the German government over Baerbock’s lie, a spokesperson smeared the reporter. A few days later, Chancellor Olaf Scholz repeated the lie that Hamas fighters had filmed themselves raping Israeli women. Over the last 11 months, countless Israeli lies have been thoroughly debunked – from beheaded and burned babies, a fetus torn out of a womb, and of course the lies about mass rapes on 7 October.
West Bank
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 21:10, Occupation forces on the Israeli Annexation Wall adjacent to al-Midya village, opened fire on and wounded one person, Rawhi Rashid Sadaqa, as he was making his way to work across the Green Line.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Qalqiliya – 19:30, Israeli troops, on the Annexation Wall near the city, opened fire on a number people on their way to work across the Green Line, wounding and hospitalising two of them: Abdullah Omar Ahmed Nazzal and Adham Ramadan Muhammad Nazzal.
Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – 16:30, the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Raed Al-Rajabi, to destroy his home in Beit Hanina – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.
Home invasion: place – Ramallah – 08:00–10:20, Israeli forces raided Beitunya and searched a house.
Israeli Army population–control: Nablus – 13:30, Israeli Occupation forces closed, for a time, the entrance to the village of Bizzariya.
Israeli Army destruction and agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 11:30, Israeli forces demolished a number of farm buildings, in the Taybeh area of the town of Tuqu.
Occupation settlement development: Jericho – 10:20, an Israeli from an Occupation settlement outpost on the slopes of Mount Qarnatal, moved further onto land west of the city, placing a mobile home, water storage tank and pen for raising sheep on it, in order to extend the outpost.
Occupation settler population–control: Ramallah – 18:25, Israelis, from the Ofra Occupation settlement, closed the nearby main road to traffic.
Occupation settler terrorism: Tubas – 14:15-16:00, Israeli settlers roamed provocatively among people’s homes, in the Umm al-Jimal area of the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler robbery: Tubas – 23:20, Occupation settlers stole a vegetable market stall stand, near Route 90 in the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler arson and agricultural sabotage: Qalqiliya – 15:00, Israeli settlers set fire to crops on Far’ata village farmland.
Occupation settler stoning: Qalqiliya – 18:55, Israelis, from the Kedumim Occupation settlement, stoned nearby passing vehicles.
Occupation settler raid: Nablus – 18:30, Israeli settlers raided the Jabal Sabih area of Beita.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Salfit – 12:05, Occupation settlers invaded Kafr al-Dik agricultural land, cutting down and uprooting around 75 olive trees.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Salfit – evening, Israelis, from the Yakir Occupation settlement, invaded the Khallet al-Najjar area, west of Deir Istiya, and broke off the branches fromaround 12 olive trees.
Occupation settler violence: Hebron – morning, armed Israeli settlers used their rifle butts to beat-up the Head of the Susya Village Council, Jihad al-Nawaj’a, leaving him with broken ribs.
Occupation settler violence and robbery: Hebron – 19:35, Occupation settlers assaulted and robbed a man, Bassam Tarayra, in the al-Za’bur area, stealing from him cash to the value of around US$300.
Raid – stun grenades – population–control: Jerusalem – 13:30–15:30, Occupation forces fired stun grenades at people on their way to work attempting to cross the Israeli Annexation Wall.
Raid: Jerusalem – 16:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Anata.
Raid – injury: Ramallah – 08:15-10:10, the Israeli Army raided the town of al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya, injuring a resident.
Raid: Ramallah – 10:10-12:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of al-Mughayir.
Raids: Ramallah – 13:55–16:25, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Ni’lin as well as the villages of Shuqba and Qibya.
Raid: Ramallah – 16:45, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Surda.
Raid: Ramallah – 17:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 23:55–01:20, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades, raided the town of Silwad.
Raids: Jenin – 15:50, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the villages of Faqua and Arbouna.
Raid: Jenin – 16:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Jalboun.
Raid: Jenin – 00:30–06:55, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Qabatiya.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 01:40–03:40, Israeli soldiers raided the town of al-Yamoun and took prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided Araba, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Tulkarem – 20:40–03:40, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades, raided the town of Anabta.
Raid: Nablus – 10:15-12:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Beita.
Raid: Nablus – 15:00-17:25, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Burin.
Raid: Nablus – 20:35–23:50, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Tal.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 03:10–05:15, Israeli soldiers, firing stun grenades, raided the city.
Raid: Salfit – 11:35-13:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Yasuf.
Raids: Bethlehem – 15:10, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the city as well as the al-Azza and Aida refugee camps.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner – population–control: Bethlehem – 01:05, the Israeli Army raided the village of Harmalah, taking prisoner one person. One other villager, Yasser Yousef Ali Asakreh, was ordered to report for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Raid – population–control: Bethlehem – 01:55, Israeli troops raided the town of Za’tara, ordered a man to report for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner in refugee camp: Hebron – morning, the Israeli Army raided the al-Arroub refugee camp, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 13:35, Israeli troops raided the town of al-Samou, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Hebron – 17:30, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Dura.
Raid – population–control: Hebron – 17:30, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Fuqeiqis and ordered a villager, Taha Abu Sharar, to cease building a house.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Hebron – 19:20–07:10, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided al-Dhahiriya.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Hebron – 23:40–02:00, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades, raided the town of Beit Ummar, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:10–07:10, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Dura, taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Hebron – 03:20–05:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Sa’ir.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 03:20–05:30, the Israeli military raided the town of al-Shuyukh, taking prisoner two people.
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