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Its analysis found around 44% of verified victims were children and 26% women. The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.

 

American immigrant, former member of Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League, West Bank annexation supporter, senior fellow at Kohelet Policy Forum and first-time diplomat. The pick signals Netanyahu's intention to align with Israel's settler movement in collaboration with the incoming Trump administration

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Yechiel Leiter as Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Leiter, who will be replacing ambassador Michael Herzog, is considered close to Netanyahu and previously served as his chief of staff.

Leiter was born in the U.S. and immigrated to Israel four decades ago. He has been actively involved in supporting Jewish settlements in the West Bank, particularly in Hebron, currently lives in the settlement of Eli. His son Moshe was killed in combat in northern Gaza during the war, about a year ago.

"Yechiel Leiter is a talented diplomat, an articulate speaker, and has a deep understanding of American culture and politics. I am convinced he will represent the State of Israel in the best way, and wish him luck in his new role," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

The post of ambassador to the U.S. is Leiter's first diplomatic job, after working for decades writing and researching at right-wing Israeli and American research institutes, including the Shalem Institute and Herzl Institute. He also served as a senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy forum, the organization that promoted legislation in 2023 aimed at weakening Israel's judiciary.

In his youth, Leiter was active in the Jewish Defense League, an organization founded in the U.S. by Rabbi Meir Kahane and later designated as a terrorist organization by U.S. authorities. He was part of a group of activists within the organization who eventually moved to live in settlements in the West Bank.

Leiter also knew Baruch Goldstein, another U.S. immigrant involved in JDL activities. In 1994, following the massacre carried out by Goldstein at the Cave of the Patriarchs, Leiter gave an interview to a Jewish-American newspaper describing Goldstein as "very close to Rabbi Kahane and regarded him as his rabbi." He mentioned having known Goldstein for a decade, during which they both lived in settlements in the Hebron area.

In the 1990s, he was an activist in the public campaign against the Oslo Accords. In 2020, he published an article advocating for the annexation of the West Bank by Israel. In 2023, three months before the Hamas attack on the Gaza border communities, he published an article on a right-wing Jewish website urging the Israeli government to bring about the collapse and dismantling of the Palestinian Authority, even if doing so would trigger a security crisis in the West Bank.

Another article by Leiter, also published on the Jewish News Syndicate website in 2023, discussed the warming relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia and the possibility of a normalization agreement between the two countries. He wrote that Saudi demands regarding the Palestinians during the negotiations were relatively modest and did not include an explicit call for the establishment of a Palestinian state. However, over the past year, amid the war in Gaza, Saudi Arabia's stance has hardened, with the kingdom consistently emphasizing that any agreement with Israel must include tangible progress toward a two-state solution.

Leiter is considered close to right-wing Jewish circles, including David Friedman, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel during the Trump administration and is seeking a significant role in a potential second Trump administration. Leiter's appointment signals Netanyahu's intent to advance a policy aligned with Israel's settler movement in coordination with the incoming Trump administration, including annexation of the West Bank. This approach could complicate the president-elect's efforts to broker a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its called necroviolence. Like the systematic destruction of cemeteries, attacking the funerals... For the families, it prevents them to mourn their loved ones. Desecrating the bodies is the same thing, with dehumanization on top of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_razing_of_cemeteries_and_necroviolence_against_Palestinians

You don't need to be religious to find that awful :

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israelis-filmed-abusing-bodies-palestinian-fighters/39731

https://youtu.be/efgSONavf90

"Today on our show: we will fuck their mothers. We will take out your eye a little. We will take out your other eye [pokes both eyes out]. You son of a thousand whore. You deserve it"

(NSFW)

In one clip, a man is seen urinating on dead bodies, presumably of Palestinian fighters, that have been stripped, scorched and splayed on the ground, either before or after their deaths. “This is what we are going to do to the Arabs,” one witness is heard commenting in Hebrew. In another clip, an Israeli in civilian clothing can be seen repeatedly stabbing the corpse of a Palestinian fighter in combat fatigues.

“Hole him a little,” another Israeli is heard saying. “Won’t we give it to you in the stomach? And rip? Won’t we take out all his fat?” In a third particularly gruesome video, an Israeli man uses the rod of a squeegee to repeatedly beat the face of a dead fighter, and then to poke each of his eyes out.

The videos are replete with foul language and calls for sexual violence. “Today on our show, we will fuck their mothers,” one Israeli says.

The Geneva Convention of 1949, to which Israel is a signatory, characterizes abuse towards captured enemy troops, and the defilement of their dead bodies, as war crimes.

In other videos uploaded to the “Terrorists from another angle” Telegram channel, Israelis are seen driving civilian vehicles back and forth over the lifeless bodies of men presumed to be Palestinian fighters, stripped down to their underwear.

“Amit, this is for you sweetie,” an Israeli is heard saying in one of the videos. In another clip where a presumed Palestinian fighter is slowly smeared into the gravel road, Israeli men can be heard laughing loudly, while one of them narrates the nauseating scene: “Very good, Gershon! In the ass! Half a corpse! In the ass!”

After the Israeli army declared war on Gaza, the Telegram channel has continued to fill up with images and videos of charred Palestinian bodies of a different kind: the civilian victims of Israel’s intense aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip – men and women, young and old – still termed “terrorists” by Israeli officials.

Horrifying clips of Palestinians picking their mangled, mutilated and murdered family members and friends out of the rubble are regularly uploaded to the channel, accompanied by expressions of joy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Surtout que ça n'est pas le Hamas qui intervient dans le processus sur le recensements des victimes du MoH palestinien.

Les directeurs d'hôpitaux remontent les chiffres des décès identifiés, le MoH cross-check les data avec les ONG, le croissant rouge palestinien, et le tout est consolidé par une cellule de statisticiens formés par les USA, utilisant un programme américain (comme leur GIS).

Le système de santé s'est effondré fin novembre, mais le MoH palestinien a toujours été considéré comme ultra fiable comme institution en territoire de guerre. Il ne faut pas confondre la communication du GMO (gouvernement media office), le média de la branche politique du Hamas, qui donnait parfois les chiffres de manière prématurée et non précise, mais ça n'est plus le cas (ils ne s'occupent pas de ça, ils ne sont même pas sur place) L'UNRWA calcule de manière différente également, il y a très peu de différences entre leurs chiffres et ceux du MoH.

Tout ce qu'on sait, c'est que depuis fin novembre, les chiffres sont largement sous-estimés. Ya 5 mois, on estimait à 21'000 les enfants disparus, donc non comptabilisés (sous les décombres/charniers/trop déchiquetés ou brûlés pour identifier le corps/etc)

No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Tours - Avec tout ce qui s’était passé, nous étions un peu excités, c’est vrai. Mais les gendarmes sont arrivés comme des cow-boys. C’est un témoignage incriminant, forcément subjectif, que Sébastien, 52 ans, partage.


Il propulse dans les dernières heures du 30 juillet à Amboise (Indre-et-Loire). « C’était mon anniversaire », explique celui qui avait convié une vingtaine de proches sur la terrasse d’un bar à bières de La Boitardière. Une soirée entachée par des échauffourées avec des voyageurs du campement voisin, finalement réprimée par l’intervention des gendarmes.

###« La réaction des gendarmes a été disproportionnée »

Un mois et demi après les faits qui vont pousser deux de ses amis à être jugés fin septembre 2024 à Tours (1), Sébastien répète « le sentiment d’injustice » qui transpire de la scène. « C’est le monde à l’envers ! C’est moi qui ai appelé les gendarmes parce que nous sentions que cela pouvait basculer avec les gens du voyage. C’est moi, aussi, qui leur ai fait remarquer qu’ils avaient mis du temps à intervenir, mais on demandait juste de l’aide. Au final, leur réaction a été disproportionnée, avec l’usage d’un pistolet à impulsion électrique contre nous…»

Sur l’ambiance contestatrice et les conditions d’intervention de la patrouille du Psig d’Amboise, les versions s’affrontent. Les images, captées par plusieurs téléphones tendus dans l’assistance ainsi que par les caméras-piéton des militaires, devraient livrer sur ce point une part de vérité dans le prétoire.

###Un gendarme frappé au visage

Stéphane, lui, enfonce : « Mon ami R. est policier à la brigade anticriminalité de Blois, il a 35 ans de boîte, il s’est présenté aux gendarmes dès leur arrivée en disant qu’il était de la maison… », poursuit-il, confirmant les éléments partagés sur place.

Un geste brusque pour repousser l’un des trois intervenants est évoqué. Puis une étincelle, qui serait provenue d’un coup porté en plein visage d’un militaire par un convive excédé. L’homme en question, un artisan à la retraite, âgé d’une soixantaine d’années, a frappé lourdement. « Je n’ai pas compris et je ne m’explique toujours pas pourquoi. Lui non plus d’ailleurs », concède Sébastien.

En plus des trois gendarmes blessés, R. a également été touché au crâne, cogné selon son entourage « à coups de gazeuse ». Le 26 septembre, il aura le statut de prévenu. Devant le tribunal correctionnel, les deux mis en cause encourent jusqu’à sept ans de prison.

Julien Coquet

(1) Pour « violences aggravées » et « outrages ». Un troisième est convoqué par la justice mi-mars 2025 pour s’expliquer d’outrages sur personne dépositaire de l’autorité publique.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Merci, j'ai mis à jour l'URL.

J'ai rajouté également la Vidéo où on voit les miliciens cagoulés tirer au mortier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

“There are still people missing under the sand. Just a while ago, they pulled out a head, a hand and a leg. People are still buried, and their families are searching for them. They were asleep and they bombed them with aircraft. The area is overcrowded with people and tents.”

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