Israel and its four fairy tales on Hamas

Before we go into these Israeliyyat tales, let’s first discuss the Gaza war in the context of Ramadan.
On Feb 17, Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called on the government to prohibit Palestinian Muslims from visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during Ramadan.
Israeli broadcasterChannel 12 said Ben-Gvir is pushing to ban Palestinian citizens of Israel below the age of 70 from entering the site.
Ben-Gvir is also insistent that Palestinian residents of the West Bank “should not be allowed” entry to Jerusalem to pray during Ramadan.
And the reasons for this is a childish one: “We cannot take risks,” he said, adding: “We cannot have women and children hostage in Gaza and allow celebrations for Hamas on the Temple Mount.”
Ben Gvir leads an extreme far right party advocating Jewish control of the compound.
However, Israeli police forces do not concur with the extremist minister and instead support the entrance of Palestinian citizens over 45 to the Al-Aqsa complex.
Meanwhile, the Shin Bet, Israel’s Internal Security Service, believes there should not be any limitations for Palestinians to visit the holy site.
The Times of Israel reports the Biden administration has shared its concerns with the Israeli government over Ben-Gvir’s incendiary proposal.
According to officials, the US believe the extremist far right minister may ignite tensions at Al-Aqsa during Ramadan, which began on March 11 in Palestine.
Additionally, it may instigate the central issue surrounding Jerusalem amid rising hostilities in the Middle East.
In previous years, Palestinians have undergone bouts of violence in the occupied territories triggered by Israeli settler groups assaulting worshippers praying at the Al Aqsa Mosque.
But on Feb 28, Israel’s security cabinet has decided against imposing broad restrictions on Arab Israelis (Palestinians of 1948) accessing Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during Ramadan.
Apparently this came in a move to curb tensions at the religiously sensitive site, after a warning from Hamas and the US.
The security cabinet will be the primary decision-maker regarding the policy on Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan – a move which analysts say has sidelined Ben Gvir.
Instead, Israeli police would have the responsibility to determine the number of Muslim worshipers permitted at the site.
Their decisions will be based on ‘safety’ assessments. Individual restrictions against specific worshipers will continue to rely on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet security service.

Israel could allow 50,000 to 60,000 worshipers at the mosque initially. This number could increase if no significant security incidents occur.
“As it pertains to Al-Aqsa, we continue to urge Israel to facilitate access to Temple Mount for peaceful worshippers during Ramadan consistent with past practice,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters, using the Jewish term for the site.
“That’s not just the right thing to do, it’s not just a matter of granting people religious freedom that they deserve and to which they have a right, but it’s also a matter that directly is important to Israel’s security,” he said.
“It is not in Israel’s security interest to inflame tensions in the West Bank or in the broader region.”
Israel has been assessing how to address worship in Jerusalem during Ramadan, as Israel wages a relentless military campaign in the Gaza Strip in response to a major attack by Hamas inside Israel on October 7.
Hamas has called for a mass movement on Al-Aqsa for the start of Ramadan.
“We call on our people in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the occupied interior (Israel) to travel to Al-Aqsa from the first day of the blessed month of Ramadan, in groups or alone, to pray there to break the siege on it,” Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said in a televised statement on Feb 28.
The US has been pressing for a deal before Ramadan begins in which Israel would halt strikes in the Gaza Strip and hostages would be freed.
But this seems to be a pipe dream, judging from Israel’s intransigence for a ceasefire and for aid to enter Gaza.
The Israeli military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 31,000 people, mostly women and children, according to the latest figures by the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
To aggravate matters further, on March 1, another extremist Israeli Minister urged the government to “wipe out” the month of Ramadan and disregard the tension in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the holy month, Anadolu Agency reports.
“The so-called month of Ramadan must be wiped out, and our fear of this month must also be wiped out,” Israeli Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu told Army Radio.
The far-right politician is a minister from the Otzma Yehudit party headed by Ben Gvir.
In November, Eliyahu was the same extremist minister who had said that dropping a “nuclear bomb” on the Gaza Strip is “an option”.
Recently, Israeli security leaks indicated fears of an eruption of the situation in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during Ramadan as a result of the Israeli war on Gaza and the restrictions the Tel Aviv government intends to impose on Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.
Israeli media say the American administration is pressuring Tel Aviv to reach a deal with Hamas regarding a hostage exchange and a ceasefire in Gaza before Ramadan.
It is really mind boggling that a country like Israel which is deemed as a democracy by the West and having the most “moral” army in the world is full of country bumpkins like Ben Gvir and Eliyahu as members of its cabinet.

They seem to be cocooned in their own country like bumpkins living under a coconut shell and do not have much opportunity to travel and realise the existence of a much wider world beyond the confines of Israel.
To wipe out the month of Ramadan as a weapon against the Palestinians is tantamount to a declaration of war against the billions of Muslims living in this world, to say the least.
Thousands of Israeli police officers have been deployed across occupied Jerusalem ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

Hebrew media Ynet reported on March 8 Israeli police have completed preparations for the start of Ramadan, referring to it as “the most tense and challenging” that Israel has ever anticipated.
“There is a full deployment of visible intelligence forces, in conjunction with the Shin Bet, to prevent disturbances and loss of control,”Ynet reported, adding that Tel Aviv is preparing for hundreds of thousands of Muslims to gather around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Ynet also reported that Israeli police are getting ready “for a scenario in which Jews will try to incite the area.”
There are “thousands of police officers in the [city] and hundreds of cameras that will provide a real-time picture of the situation,” it added.
Israel is known to step up brutal measures and restrictions against Palestinians in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, particularly in years when the holy month coincides with Jewish holidays.
This year, Israeli fears over a flare-up are greater given the ongoing war in Gaza and regional tensions, which have seen other fronts from Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq open against Israel.
In April 2023, rockets struck Israel from Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon within days after Israeli police raided and brutally beat worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.
For Muslims the world over, Ramadan is a sacred month where the obligatory one-month fasting from dawn to dusk which forms the fourth pillar of Islam is required on all Muslims.
The main purpose of the Ramadan fast is to attain taqwa (fear of Allah) via inculcating the sense of solid self-discipline in depriving the nafs (soul) from attachment to ephemeral things like food, water and sex for the sake of Allah, and creating empathy for the poor, needy and downtrodden who suffer from poverty, hunger and thirst on a daily basis for prolonged period of time.
The sense of empathy created is the reason why Muslims have a higher sense of social justice in the struggle to ensure that the fate of the poor, needy and downtrodden are being taken care of in order to lighten their burden in life.
The Gazan civilians are suffering from hunger, malnutrition, thirst and threat of death by bombing brought about by the cruelty and wickedness of Israel’s policy of meat grinding of civilians in the Gaza war.
They are thus considered as the poor, needy and the downtrodden and will generate the utmost sympathy and empathy from Muslims all over the world in this sacred month of Ramadan.
This adds a transnational dimension in that fasting Muslims from Indonesia to Morocco will grow increasingly frustrated with Washington’s inaction in preventing genocide and the displacement of over two million Palestinians in Gaza, many of whom are on the brink of starvation.

Despite US assurances that it is pressuring Israel to mitigate casualties, the relentless onslaught has resulted in an appalling daily death toll of around 300, with more than 31,000 lives lost, and over 60% of homes and infrastructure decimated.
When Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah declared that “for every drop of blood shed in Gaza and the entire region, the primary responsibility falls on [US President Joe] Biden, [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken, and [US Secretary of Defense Lloyd] Austin,” his words resonated deeply – not only within the Islamic world but with millions globally – calling for an end to the war by halting the influx of American weapons to the Israeli military.
The US State Department has received multiple warnings from diplomats in the region of the growing resentment toward Washington for its complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign.
Despite its tone-deaf attempts to adjust its stance and emphasise a need to protect Palestinian civilians, the regional backlash threatens to undermine US diplomacy, unravel Arab normalisation deals with Israel, and jeopardise US business interests throughout the Middle East.
US corporations have seen losses of up to US$11 billion as a result of pro-Palestine boycotts.
The next few days or weeks carry the potential for a catastrophic escalation, particularly if Israel intensifies its military aggression during Ramadan and advances its plans to displace Palestinians from Rafah.
Additionally, the discontent among Israeli settlers displaced by Lebanese resistance operations along the northern border poses further risks, with officials in Tel Aviv contemplating drastic measures to ensure calm, including potential military action – a preview of which southern Lebanese civilians have recently witnessed.
The discontent among northern settlers grows as they grapple with the new security dynamics in the aftermath of the Hamas-led Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7.
Extending over 100km from Naqoura to the Shebaa Farms and penetrating 5 to 10km deep, this border strip has seen the displacement of thousands of settler families.
Despite stern warnings from senior Israeli officials to restore “calm” along the northern frontier – including Energy Minister Eli Cohen’s pledge that “if this threat is not removed diplomatically, we will not hesitate to take military action” – the situation remains fraught.

A poll by the Hebrew newspaper Maariv in February showed that 71% of Israelis believe Israel should launch a large-scale military operation against Lebanon to keep Hezbollah away from the border.
At the same time, the Israeli military leadership is acutely aware of the significance of Nasrallah’s statement on February 13, when he insisted that the settlers fleeing from the north “will not return” and that Israeli officials should “prepare shelters, hotels, schools and tents for two million people.”
In two consecutive speeches, Nasrallah stressed that “only stopping the war on Gaza will stop the Lebanon front.”
And he reminded Israelis that since 1982 they would respond militarily when a mere Lebanese bullet or Katyusha rocket would hit its areas, but now – despite more than 2,000 rocket strikes by the resistance against critical Israeli targets – Tel Aviv has been unable to escalate to a full-scale war.

In this regard, Israel’s dual strategy is to exert military pressure through direct raids on southern Lebanon to instil fear, while pinning hopes on western diplomatic overtures to Beirut with the aim of forcing the removal of Hezbollah, not just from the border, but from regions beyond the Litani River.
The recent statement by US Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security, Amos Hochstein merely confirms what Hezbollah already knows: Washington’s aim is not to end the conflict but to manage it.
Hochstein emphasised the necessity of the return of the residents of the southern border towns and villages to their homes, as well as the “settlers” on the northern border of the occupied Palestinian territories.
“What we’ve been trying to do is to make sure that we can contain the fighting to the lowest level possible and to work on lasting solutions that can bring a cessation of hostilities,” he said.
“We’re going to have to do a lot of building up of the Lebanese Armed Forces; we have to build up the economy in south Lebanon. That’s going to require an international coalition of support, not just the United States,” Hochstein added.
Western engagements with Beirut amount to little more than message transmission, primarily conveying Israel’s demands and threats rather than facilitating genuine mediation.
This lack of earnestness in addressing the gravity of the situation in southern Lebanon has not gone unnoticed.
Even Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, known for his calm demeanour, expressed frustration with this superficial approach, who said on January 12:
“We informed all the international delegates who visited Lebanon that talking about a truce in Lebanon only is illogical … a ceasefire be reached as soon as possible in Gaza, in parallel with a serious ceasefire in Lebanon.”
Western diplomacy in this issue proposes a ceasefire on the border and the formation of a monitoring committee comprising US and French representatives alongside Lebanese and Israeli delegates.
However, it also outlines a three-stage process: ceasefire, withdrawal of resistance fighters and their military assets 10km north of the border, and subsequent negotiations aimed at establishing a resistance-free buffer zone.
Nasrallah insisted any negotiations must be on the basis of the core principle of liberating Lebanese territory currently occupied by Israel instead of the other way round where it is Lebanon that has to make concessions.
Why would Lebanon concede anything when Hezbollah is causing its enemy unprecedented pain and is, for the first time ever, coordinating its military efforts with multiple resistance battlefronts, including Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq?
Recent remarks by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that his forces had deliberately bombed Beirut have made Nasrallah conclude that Tel Aviv’s recent targeting of civilians in Nabatiyeh, Sowanah, and Adshit “was deliberate and not a mistake.”

Moreover, it is an Israeli attempt to violate the rules of engagement in place since 1992, which if not upheld, can change the military game considerably for Israel – to its detriment, as well as Lebanon’s.
For starters, the Hezbollah leader has promised a strong response on the frontlines, targeting the enemy directly rather than “targeting sites, spy devices, and vehicles”.
It seems the US and Israel will be forced to make some critical choices in the next few days, not only as Ramadan approaches, but also because Tel Aviv has now crossed the line of military “proportionality” by targeting Lebanese civilians and inviting escalation.
Their most perilous move may be for Israel to launch a war on Lebanon – and Hezbollah specifically – which will prompt the Axis of Resistance to recalibrate its region-wide strategies.
This will include the intensification of the Lebanese resistance, breaking the fragile truce by Kataib Hezbollah and its Iraqi resistance allies to strike broader US targets, Syria assuming a more prominent role, adjustments in the direction and potency of Yemen missile attacks and drone operations beyond the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and shifts in Iran’s power centres toward favouring confrontation which would be a major deviation from its regional approach over the past four months.
Meanwhile Israel has allegedly told Hezbollah that they have until March 15 to resolve the conflict diplomatically, after which a total war would be unleashed on Lebanon, according to an article by Lebanese media Al-Akhbar published on March 7.
The article claims that Hochstein has been attempting to subdue conflicts “of the southern front” as a preliminary stage to Israel forming a comprehensive agreement with Lebanon.
American officials are reportedly applying pressure out of fear that a greater conflict with Hezbollah would “turn into a fuse that would blow up the entire region.”
Israel should realise that total war with Hezbollah and a land invasion of Rafah in Ramadan will be catastrophic for the Zionist state.
Islamic history is repleted with victories of the Muslims during Ramadan because this is the month where Muslims’ self-discipline and determination to free themselves from oppression is at its peak.
The Battle of Badr on Ramadan 17 in the second year of the Hijriah (2 AH) – the first battle of Islam – which in a way is an existential war because Islam would be wiped out if the Muslims were defeated was won by a Muslim army of about 300 troops fighting the Meccan oligarchs whose armies numbered some 1,000 troops.
Again it was on Ramadan 20 in 8 AH that Mecca was liberated, known also as the Greatest Conquest, which marked a turning point in Islamic history as Muslim started to control over the Arabian Peninsula as a whole, with Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) leading the conquest, saying: “Truth has (now) arrived, and falsehood perished: for falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish”
Yet again it was on Ramadan 22, 92 AH, at the Battle of Guadalete, the Muslim army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad conquered al-Andalus (Spain) and remained there for more than eight centuries in a land that was one of the most important crossing points between Islamic and European civilisations.
The Battle of Ain Jalut was fought between the Bahri Mamluks of Egypt and the Mongol Empire on Ramadan 25, 658 AH, marking the limit of Mongol conquests.
The Mongols were ultimately defeated, leading to the expansion of the Muslim world.

The labelling of Hamas as a terrorist organisation is a good example of how the unipolar rule-based world order works in that what the US dictates (along with its European allies) is followed faithfully by almost all countries especially small countries as if it’s the gospel truth.
So it’s very clear the unipolar rule-based world order is tantamount to “might is right”, a proverb which basically means the strongest group will win. The strongest side in a disagreement is the “might” and has the most power.
In the context of the unipolar world, it is the mighty superpower that is the US which sets these rule-based world order.
And the big question is who gives the US the legitimacy to set the rules when its population forms only a minute proportion of all countries in the world in the United Nation.
Under a multipolar world order, it is international laws as contained in the UN Charter that should be followed faithfully.
No more is this exemplified than in labelling Hamas as a terrorist organisation by the US, the European Union (EU), the UK, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Paraguay and New Zealand.
On December 6, 2018, the UN General Assembly rejected a US resolution condemning Hamas as a terrorist organisation, delivering a blow to US Ambassador Nikki Haley’s parting action before leaving her post at the end of that year.

This is the same Haley who was the then US Ambassador to the UN appointed by President Donald Trump and who is now trounced hollow by Trump in the primary for the Republican nominee for the US presidential election this November.
Haley had then negotiated for weeks with countries and had succeeded in getting all 28 countries of the EU bloc on its side. But it was no big deal as the US and EU have already designated Hamas as a terrorist group.
The resolution fell short of the required two-thirds majority of the 193-member assembly to pass.
The failed vote was the first time that the General Assembly was considering a resolution regarding Hamas, the Palestinian movement controlling the Gaza Strip since 2007 with a view to condemn it as a terrorist organisation.
Hamas had then welcomed the decision and described it as a “slap in the face for the Trump administration”. Hopefully Trump would have learnt this lesson if he wins the November election.
What all this means is countries that labelled Hamas as a terrorist organisation are in the minority in proportion to all countries in the UN.
The US, EU, UK, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Paraguay and New Zealand do not constitute the whole world or the majority countries/blocks represented in the UN.
When this labelling is measured against the population of the world, it is the Global South that represents the majority of the population in the world and NOT the above mentioned countries combined.
According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Global South broadly comprises Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Israel, Japan and South Korea), and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand).

UN relief chief Martin Griffiths, speaking to Sky News on February 14, said that the UN does not consider Hamas a terrorist group and Israel needs to have a negotiated solution with the Palestinian resistance group.
This issue is similar to the US sanctions. US-imposed sanctions are not the rule that the whole world should obey. The world must obey only UN-imposed sanctions.
So Hamas is not a terrorist entity until and unless the UN says so. It is a resistance movement and its members are patriotic freedom fighters.
So all should just ignore the labelling of Hamas as a terrorist entity by this minority group of the US and its allies.
Much in the same way during the American independence war, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, et al were deemed as terrorists by the British Empire but as patriotic heroes by the US.
In the latter case we go for the US description as patriotic independent fighter heroes.
It is Zionist propaganda that is giving the impression that Hamas as a terrorist entity is an accepted fact by the whole world, when it is not.
One wonders why if Hamas is a terrorist entity, the Zionist state of Israel is more than willing and seems rather desperate to negotiate with Hamas even though through proxies like US, Qatar and Egypt to end the Gaza war.
Meanwhile Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a speech on March 13 that Israel has lost the war in Gaza, even if it proceeds with plans to launch a deadly assault on Rafah, which Tel Aviv claims is the key to its victory.

Nasrallah praised the “patience” of the Palestinian people in Gaza, calling it “miraculous.” He also praised the outcome of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and its “strategic achievements.”
“Today, on the sixth month, Netanyahu says, ‘If we do not go to Rafah, we have lost.’ And I say to him, even if you go to Rafah, you have lost this war. After six months of fighting, you have not been able to provide even an image of victory,” the resistance leader said.
He added that despite all the massacres and difficult conditions, the people of Gaza still support the resistance.
“What is the first and biggest goal Israel announced at the start of this war? The defeat of Hamas. Today, we are in the sixth month. Who is it (Isreal) negotiating with? Hamas,” Nasrallah went on to say.
Nasrallah added that Hamas is negotiating “from a position of victory,” praising it for imposing and standing by its terms.
He also condemned western “deception” around the ongoing truce efforts, which he said Washington has lied about it by saying that “the ball is in Hamas’ court.”
Recent truce efforts have stalled due to Israel’s refusal of the terms of the Palestinian resistance, which demands an immediate end to the war, a permanent ceasefire, and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip.

Concerning Lebanon, Nasrallah confirmed that the “Lebanese front will remain in a position of support alongside the resistance, the people of Gaza, and the leadership of Hamas, whatever the time.”
Since October 8, Hezbollah has been launching daily operations against Israeli sites in support of the resistance in Gaza.
Israel has continued to escalate attacks on civilians in southern and eastern Lebanon, prompting Hezbollah to widen its target range.
In response to recent attacks on eastern Lebanon’s Beqaa region and continuous indiscriminate bombardment of the south, Hezbollah has struck several strategic Israeli sites in the occupied Golan Heights and Galilee.
Western-led efforts to de-escalate the southern front have failed, as Hezbollah continues to stand by its position that it will not stop fighting until the war in Gaza is brought to an end. Israel has been threatening to widen the war against Lebanon as a result.
Nasrallah responded to criticism claiming that the Lebanese resistance’s operations have not helped Gaza or affected Israel.
“100,000 Zionist soldiers are deployed near the Lebanon border to prevent the resistance from invading occupied Palestine,” he said, adding that Israel is suffering heavy losses.
“Israel does not have enough soldiers to wage a war on Lebanon,” he said, repeating the recent comments made by former Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid.

Nasrallah also referred to the crisis of ultra-orthodox military service, which is a sign of impending “collapse” for Israel.
“Further patience will lead the Axis of Resistance to achieve a major victory,” he said, highlighting “Zionist military, economic, and political exhaustion.”
Around 200,000 Israelis have been forced to flee their settlements in the north of Israel, creating what Hebrew media has referred to as a “buffer zone” imposed by Hezbollah upon the occupied Galilee.
“Whoever wants to evaluate what the resistance is doing on our front must see that the resistance deters the enemy from waging a war on Lebanon.”
Now let us dissect the Zionist propaganda about atrocities and rapes committed by Hamas on October 7 which the western media is too happy to repeat and disseminate.
Some of the crucial details of Israel’s narrative claiming Hamas committed mass atrocities on 7 October were simply false and a result of Israel’s desire to obtain public and international support for violent retaliation against Gaza, according to an investigation conducted by the French newspaper Libération.
The newspaper’s investigation published on December 12 stated: “No heads were cut off, no children were placed in ovens, no pregnant women’s stomachs were cut open, and no children’s hands were tied behind their backs,” but pointed out that “only one infant was killed out of 40 minors killed in the attack”.

A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first to claim on October 11 that Hamas had beheaded babies in the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
A day later, the Israeli government said it could not confirm that claim.
This did not stop US President Genocide Joe, however, from falsely claiming he had personally seen pictures depicting such beheading. The White House later walked back this statement.
Influenced by Israeli narratives, other European and Western leaders also shed tears in public over the atrocities Hamas “committed against innocent Israeli civilians on 7 October” before any independent investigation was conducted.
Shortly after Hamas carried out the Aqsa Flood Operation in the Envelope of Gaza on 7 October, Israel said Hamas fighters killed 1,400 Israelis in cold blood on the day of the attack, including “massacring hundreds of concert-goers at a peace music festival” in the Gaza Envelope.
A few weeks later, Israel revised its casualty toll for 7 October down to 1,200 without explaining.
However, in November, an investigation by Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, revealed police reports showed that many of the concert-goers who were killed on 7 October died while fleeing the site of the festival as Israeli helicopters opened fire on what it believed were Hamas fighters.
The Libération investigation blamed the spread of this narrative on the media’s reliance on unreliable eyewitnesses, including soldiers and search-and-rescue volunteers who responded to the attacks.
The paper explained that these accounts are unsupported by evidence collected over the two months since the attack.
Libération cited the Israeli search-and-rescue non-governmental organisation Zaka, whose members were among the first responders to the attack on 7 October, as the primary source of these claims, including reports of rape, mutilation, and immolation.
However, the organisation later stated that some members “may have misunderstood what they saw because they are not forensic specialists.”
The testimonies provided by soldiers have also been unreliable.
The French newspaper singled out the claims by Colonel Golan Fach, head of the Israeli military search and rescue unit, “who claimed he saw the burned bodies of infants,” also in Kfar Aza.
The newspaper noted, however, that an Israeli military spokesman eventually said the colonel had erroneously used the word ‘infants’ instead of ‘children’.
Another Israeli soldier claimed to have seen infants hanging from a clothesline in Kfar Aza, a claim that, as Libération pointed out, was later denied by an unnamed military spokesman.
Haaretz has also cast doubt on these allegations.
In an investigation published on December 3, it said that the allegations of beheaded babies were “incorrect and had no basis in reality.”
The newspaper said that what happened that day led to the spread of “horror stories, none of which happened in reality.”
Israel has failed, to date, to respond to requests from some rights groups who pressed Tel Aviv to provide proof of sexual crimes committed by Hamas fighters on 7 October.
Hamas has insisted all along that it treats all of its 250 Israeli prisoners it captured on 7 October with respect and dignity in contrast to the inhumane treatment and torture suffered by thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and its Nazi-style war crimes against the population in Gaza.

The testimonies of several Israeli captives freed by Hamas corroborated that claim.
In late October, after her release by the group on humanitarian grounds, an Israeli senior citizen said she was treated with respect and received medical attention from Hamas doctors.
Other videos released by Hamas showed several Israeli captives, who were released in the prisoners swap under the truce deal with Israel in late November, cordially bidding Hamas fighters farewell upon their release.
These Hamas-released videos on the treatment of Israeli captives prompted Israel to ban freed prisoners from talking to the media as Israel continued to peddle wild narratives of what happened on 7 October to dehumanize Palestinians.
However, in a video released by Hamas, one of those freed Israeli captives, Gali Tarshansky, 13, is heard saying in Arabic Ma’salama as she waved goodbye to Hamas fighters before the Red Cross van drove her home.
In a separate video posted on social media, another freed Israeli woman, Maya Regev, 21, said Hamas doctors operated for three hours on her injured leg immediately after she was captured on 7 October.
Meanwhile in an investigation for The Cradle, William Van Wagenen of the Libertarian Institute who has written extensively on the Syrian war, with a specific focus on the role of US planners in sparking and exacerbating the conflict, said masquerading as a humanitarian organisation, Israel’s military-linked Zaka has revealed itself as a propaganda tool for Israel’s war on Gaza, akin to the White Helmets in ‘rebel’-held Syria.
The Israeli volunteer-based religious organisation that gained notoriety for its role of collecting bodies after the events of 7 October, is once again under the spotlight.
An explosive report by Haaretz on Jan 31 exposed the group’s “cases of negligence, misinformation, and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props.”
More notably, the report provided new details suggesting Zaka might not be a genuine volunteer organisation, but rather a front for the Israeli army.
It is believed to have played a part in concealing the truth that Israel caused the deaths of potentially hundreds of its own civilians in accordance with the Hannibal Directive.
The Israeli military implemented the “Hannibal Directive” during Hamas’ attack on 7 October, killing some of its own civilians and soldiers to prevent Hamas from taking them as captives back to Gaza, according to an investigation by another Israel’s leading newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth.
The 31 January Haaretz report begins by detailing how Zaka members who claim to be devoted to preserving the dignity of the dead, used corpses as stage props for videos and calls for fundraising.
One volunteer from another rescue group told the Israeli outlet, “it was just bizarre that there was a corpse right there next to them, and they were sitting around, eating, and smoking,” rather than transferring the body into an ambulance or the refrigerated truck parked across the road.”
They opened a war room for donations there,” said another witness to the event. “Two weeks later, I saw them acting similarly in Be’eri [another 7 October conflict site] as well – sitting and making videos and fundraising calls inside the kibbutz.”
Haaretz reported further that in an effort to gain media exposure, Zaka representatives “spread accounts of atrocities that never happened, released sensitive and graphic photos, and acted unprofessionally on the ground.”
In a video posted to Zaka’s social media account, a volunteer tearfully described finding a 30-year-old woman lying face down in a pool of blood.
“We turned her over in order to place her into the bag. She was pregnant,” the volunteer said, stopping to hold his breath.

“Her stomach was swollen, and the baby was still attached by the umbilical cord when it was stabbed, and she was shot in the back of the head. I don’t know if she suffered and saw her baby murdered or not.”
However, the newspaper noted that the horrific incident “simply didn’t happen.” It was “one of several stories that have been circulated without any basis.”
Fabricated claims spread by Zaka representatives were then cited by Israeli leaders as justification for their brutal military assault on Gaza, which has killed over 11,000 Palestinian children, many of them burned alive or decapitated by US-supplied bombs.
Even Genocide Joe and Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared some of Zaka’s false atrocity stories, citing them as justification for expediting weapons shipments to Israel, even long after the effects of 2,000 lb bombs on children in Gaza became clear.
As The Grayzone detailed in December, Yossi Landau, Zaka commander for the southern region, fabricated the most salacious and widely promoted stories claiming Hamas had committed unthinkable atrocities on 7 October.
In turn, the publicity these stories generated quickly earned the near-bankrupt organisation millions of dollars in donations.
As journalist Brad Pearce has detailed, it is unclear where these donations will go. Zaka has for years been plagued by accusations of corruption and fraud, while its founder has long been known as a serial child rapist.
In 2019, Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Zaka was suspected of using shadow organisations to funnel millions of dollars in donations for private use, even as the organisation faced bankruptcy.
The organisation’s reputation was further damaged in 2021, when another Haaretz investigation revealed that Zaka’s founder, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, had sexually assaulted women and raped children for decades.
Yedioth Ahronoth reported soon thereafter that residents of Meshi-Zahav’s neighbourhood were not surprised to learn about the accusations and that “community leaders even considered castrating him once.”
One man from the neighbourhood told the popular Israeli newspaper that the accusations were “the tip of the iceberg,” and labelled Meshi-Zahav “the Haredi Jeffrey Epstein.”
In 2022, another Haaretz investigation found the organisation claimed to have over 3,000 volunteers, and received state funding on this basis. In reality, the group had no more than 1,000 volunteers.
Despite this background, Pearce notes that Zaka enjoyed endorsements from powerful figures in Israel’s political echelon, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and MK Danny Dannon.
On 7 October and after, Zaka served as a front for the Israeli army to launder false Hamas atrocity propaganda.
The Haaretz investigation revealed that during the first days of the war – when the Israeli narrative concerning the nature of the Hamas operation was crucial to establish – uniformed soldiers from the Israeli army’s Home Front Command made many media appearances.
“But over their uniforms, they wore non-IDF vests on which the name ‘Zaka’ was emblazoned. Military officers who were informed about this blaring detail could not account for it,” the paper found.

This gave the impression that claims coming from the Israeli army, an obviously biased source of information, were coming from a neutral third-party source.
While even Israeli journalists were sceptical of claims by army commanders, including the false storyline that Hamas hung seven dead babies from a clothesline, the equally implausible claims made by Yossi Landau and other allegedly selfless Zaka volunteers were largely reported uncritically in the US, UK, and Israeli press.
The close relationship between Zaka and the Israeli army is further illustrated by Haim Outmezgine, who is the head of Zaka’s “special forces” and also a reservist in the Home Front Command’s rescue unit.
Outmezgine was one of several senior officials who made frequent press appearances wearing the yellow Zaka vest. But he didn’t only play a media role; Haaretz notes further that according to some sources, “he also played a central role in the association” between Zaka and the Israeli army.
He was “in command of several sites starting from the evening of the attacks,” including the site of the Nova music festival in Re’im and the settlements (kibbutzim) of Kfar Aza and Be’eri.
Outmezgine’s dual role in the army’s Home Front Command and Zaka apparently led to the decision to deploy untrained, amateur Zaka volunteers to collect bodies at these sensitive sites rather than army soldiers already well-trained for this purpose.
The only soldiers the Home Front Command chose to use alongside Zaka were from the Military Rabbinate’s southern search unit, stationed at the Shura military base.
Several army officers involved in the operation at the Shura base told Haaretz they had “no explanation” for why the additional soldiers were not allowed to assist in the mission.
One officer at Shura said that the inexpert way Zaka volunteers collected the bodies “made the identification process very difficult.”
A volunteer who worked at Shura said: “There were bags with two skulls, bags with two hands, with no way to know which was whose.”
But why were amateurs from Zaka deployed to the most sensitive sites with the most bodies on 7 October, rather than highly trained soldiers from the army?
One possibility is corruption. As both a member of Zaka and the Home Front Command, Haim Outmezgine may have arranged for Zaka to be deployed to Nova, Be’eri, and Kfar Azza to ensure the organisation was at the centre of events, and able to gain media attention and millions in donations.
However, another possibility is that higher-level officials in the army, intelligence services, or Netanyahu’s cabinet wanted Zaka deployed to these sensitive sites to make any investigation into the hundreds of Israeli deaths there as difficult as possible.
This was crucial because it was the Israeli army itself that killed large numbers of its own civilians.
To prevent Israelis from being taken captive by Hamas, the Israeli army issued the Hannibal Directive and unleashed overwhelming firepower from Apache attack helicopters, armed Zik drones, and Merkava tanks.
In this way, the army killed Israelis who were barricaded in their own homes with Hamas fighters in Be’eri, Kfar Azza, and elsewhere, and killed many others traveling across the open fields to Gaza in cars, on foot, and even in golf carts and tractors with Hamas fighters.

As a result, many of the corpses found on 7 October were badly burned or dismembered due to heavy weapons unleashed by Israel. Bodies were found crushed under collapsed homes in the kibbutzim and strewn among the fields near the Gaza border.
The Israeli army then passed the blame for all these horrific deaths on to Hamas.
Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and other resistance factions, certainly killed some Israeli civilians on 7 October.
However, Israeli officials falsely claim that Al-Qassam fighters deliberately massacred all 1,200 Israelis – mostly civilians – who died that day, burning many alive while torturing and raping many others.
By failing to properly collect and document the state of the bodies, Zaka enabled the Israeli army to attribute potentially hundreds of killings of Israelis carried out by the occupation army to Hamas.
The “Yellow Vests” of the Zaka volunteers are reminiscent of the “White Helmets” worn by members of the so-called Syria Civil Defense, which was established and funded by western intelligence agencies in 2014, at the height of the US-led regime change war on Syria.
As journalist Vanessa Beeley has extensively detailed, western media and intelligence agencies used the alleged rescue organisation as ‘primary sources’ in spreading fake stories of Syrian army atrocities, including staging scenarios to blame the army for chemical attacks against civilians.
By doing so, narratives were manipulated and a scene was carefully set to justify western military intervention to topple the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad.
This raises questions of whether Zaka, like the White Helmets, is a cut-out used by the Israeli army and intelligence services to justify Tel Aviv’s massive military campaign in Gaza that many view as genocide, rather than an authentic volunteer rescue organisation.
Such a view is strengthened by the fact that, as Brad Pearce notes, Zaka’s long-time Chief Operating Officer, Mati Goldstein, says on his LinkedIn profile that he is a 25-year veteran of the Israeli army, a current commander in the reserves, and someone who “took part in many major undercover missions,” meaning he has been a trained spy.
This connection could explain the praise Zaka receives – despite its past controversies – from top levels of Israel’s military and political class, which positions it strategically in obscuring the truth of the 7 October events.

Israel and its allies have insisted the bombings in the Gaza war are justified because it has the right to self-defence in response to the October 7 Hamas attacks that killed 1,200 people and injured more than 5,600 in southern Israel.
Article 51 of the UN Charter states that until the UN Security Council takes measures to maintain international peace and security, “nothing in the charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations.”
Ever since Israel embarked on the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, its officials and its Western allies – from the US, UK to the EU have defended Israeli actions by pointing to Article 51.
According to UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese the right to self-defence can be invoked when the state is threatened by another state, which is not the case.
In an address to the Australian Press Club on November 17, Albanese said the attack Israel faced on October 7 came from an armed group in a territory, Gaza, that Israel has effectively controlled.
Israel withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005, but it has imposed a land, sea and air blockade on the enclave since Hamas came to power in 2007. That, according to Albanese, amounts to occupation.
“Israel does not claim it has been threatened by another state. It has been threatened by an armed group within an occupied territory. It cannot claim the right of self-defence against a threat that emanates from a territory it occupies, from a territory kept under belligerent occupation,” Albanese said.
She was referring to a 2004 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which said the construction of Israel’s separation wall in the occupied West Bank was illegal.
The ICJ rejected the Israeli argument to build the wall, saying it could not invoke the right to self-defence in an occupied territory.
Other experts like Iain Overton, executive director of the London-based Action on Armed Violence, which conducts research and advocacy on armed violence against civilians, point to the devastating scale of Israeli attacks on Gaza.
“The death of more than 12,300 children, attacks on healthcare, the withholding of water and electricity – these cannot be merely justified as a ‘right to self-defence’,” said Overton.
He added that for Israel to claim this right without being challenged “would be a mockery of the international humanitarian law”.
Meanwhile the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini said on March 12 that more children have been reported killed in Israel’s war raging in Gaza than in four years of conflict around the world.

“Staggering. The number of children reported killed in just over four months in #Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in four years of wars around the world combined,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
His post referenced UN numbers showing that 12,193 children had been killed in conflicts worldwide between 2019 and 2022.
It compared that to reports from the health ministry in the Gaza Strip indicating that more than 12,300 children have been killed in the Palestinian territory between last October and the end of February.
“This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future,” Lazzarini said.
Armed conflicts are governed by international humanitarian law (IHL), a set of rules contained in international agreements like the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 as well as other agreements and conventions meant to ensure that all member nations subscribe to a list of fundamental rules during conflicts.
But member states do not always act by the rules, most recently during the Ukraine-Russia war.
Israel has been accused of war crimes in its previous military assaults on Gaza, but it has not been held accountable.

In the current conflict, though, experts said Israel’s actions seem to violate all of the four main principles of IHL: distinction between civilians and combatants, proportionality between anticipated loss of civilian life and damage and the strategic military advantage of an attack, legitimate military purposes and the humane treatment of all individuals from civilians to detainees and hostages.
“The scale of the bombardment and its impact on civilians raises questions about Israel’s adherence to proportionality,” Overton said.
Israel’s bombing of Gaza has also killed more than 102 aid workers with the UNRWA, making this the deadliest conflict ever for UN staff in the organisation’s history.
IHL underlines the fundamental rule of all wars – that parties in a conflict must always make a distinction between civilians and combatants and that civilians and civilian objects must never be attacked.
Hence, there is no justification for civilians being attacked by either side in the current conflict, and it is unlawful.
Neve Gordon, a professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, said both Hamas’s and Israel’s actions were “clearly war crimes”, adding that it was “obvious to anyone” that Hamas’s actions on October 7 violated IHL.
“It is also obvious that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza since October 7,” he said.
“There is the collective punishment through the stopping of water and electricity, the compelled movement of populations and then the unleashing of eruptive violence that is killing thousands of civilians while destroying the very infrastructure of existence in the Gaza Strip,” Gordon added.
Israel controls what goes in and out of Gaza. Even the fuel for its sole power plant, which has since shut down, has been supplied with Israel’s permission.
Israel’s claims that Hamas is operating out of civilian facilities, however, are aimed at justifying civilian casualties, Gordon said.
“When Israel claims Hamas targets in refugee camps and hospitals, the idea in both cases is to underscore that the value of the target is extremely high and, therefore, that Israel is abiding by the principle of proportionality even if many civilians die,” Gordon said.

International humanitarian law insists that medical units must be protected. Similarly, international law also disallows attacks against places that are indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as drinking water installations and farmland.
Attacking schools and hospitals during the conflict, as Israel has done, is“one of the six grave violations”, according to the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
Yet Israel has been unrelenting in these attacks despite facing heavy criticism. Experts have pointed to how it has relied on the claim, backed by the US and EU, that Hamas is using civilians in these places as “human shields”.
US President Joe Biden reiterated the Israeli claim of a Hamas base at al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility. He offered no proof, and Israel has so far not shown any evidence for that claim either.
One way Hamas uses civilians as “human shields”, Israel insists, is by allegedly operating out of schools, hospitals, refugee camps and shelters.
But many experts believe that painting civilians as human shields is a convenient argument that Israel has used to create legitimacy for its attacks.
“When a person in a battlefield is defined as a human shield, …he or she loses some of the protections assigned to civilians by the laws of war,” Gordon said.
“What many legal commentators say is that once a warring party uses human shields, lethal forms of violence that might otherwise be prohibited in a civilian setting can be used,” he added.
Others, like Overton, said that even if Israel’s claims about Palestinian civilians being used as human shields are accurate, Israeli actions are still not justified.
“The claim that civilians are being used as human shields does not absolve a party from its obligations under IHL. Even if combatants are present, attacks must still adhere to the principles of distinction and proportionality,” Overton said, pointing to how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Gaza a “graveyard for children” on November 7.
“This underscores the severe impact on civilians, suggesting that the claim of human shields may not justify the scale and nature of the attacks on civilian areas,” he added.
Israel has also been accused of using white phosphorus, which could trigger fires as well as lead to severe, potentially fatal burns.
Firing white phosphorus is akin to an indiscriminate attack, according to Amnesty International, which affects civilians and military targets alike and hence is prohibited under international law.
IHL makes it clear that parties to a conflict “may not order the displacement of the civilian population, in whole or part” except if military reasons demand or if their security is involved.
On October 13, Israel ordered more than 1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate and move to the besieged enclave’s south despite the UN warning that Gaza faced a “real catastrophe” due to such an order.
Israel has justified this order by saying it was aimed at limiting civilian casualties during its military operation in northern Gaza.
IHL also lays out that all parties in a conflict must ensure that humanitarian relief operations are allowed and facilitated “unimpeded”.
However, Israel had refused to allow essential aid into Gaza despite widespread warnings of a humanitarian crisis.
Israel’s decision to impose a “complete siege” of Gaza’s power, food and water supplies has also been widely criticised for triggering a humanitarian crisis as thousands of Palestinians face “death by starvation”, according to the ActionAid charity.
Humanitarian law prohibits the use of starvation of the civilian population “as a method of warfare”.
“The complete siege now lasting over five months has made it an agony for residents in Gaza to find basic necessities and frankly to survive,” UN human rights chief Volker Turk said, adding that “all forms of collective punishment must come to an end”.

While lawyers and experts have pointed to likely violations by Israel and Hamas of international law and international humanitarian law in particular, that might not ensure legal action against them.
Experts point to the lack of action against Israel for its 2008 assault on Gaza, named Operation Cast Lead, during which Israel was accused of war crimes.
The 22-day Israeli offensive killed 1,400 Palestinians. At least 13 Israelis were killed in retaliatory rocket attacks by Palestinian armed groups.
“Historical precedents, such as the inquiries following Operation Cast Lead and others, show that while investigations into Israeli actions in Gaza have occurred, they often have not led to significant preventative measures or accountability,” Overton said.
In the current conflict, the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory had announced on October 10 that there was “clear evidence of war crimes” from both sides and added that it had been “collecting and preserving evidence of war crimes” because it is “intent on ensuring legal accountability, including individual criminal and command responsibility”.
“The killing of so many civilians cannot be dismissed as collateral damage. Not in a kibbutz. Not in a refugee camp. And not in a hospital,” the UN human rights chief said.
At least three Palestinian rights groups have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel during the ongoing war. French lawyer Gilles Devers submitted a complaint to the prosecutor at the ICC on behalf of Gaza victims.
A US-based civil rights group, the Centre for Constitutional Rights, has also sued Biden and senior members of his cabinet for “complicity” in the “unfolding genocide”.

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