Revelations on Gaza Conflict and Israel

Three major revelations about the Gaza Holocaust in the Israeli

press. I'm Tim Foley with caitlinjohnstone.com.

The Israeli press just published three significant revelations about the

Gaza Holocaust, reporting, one, that Benjamin Netanyahu

concealed advanced knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7th,

two, that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to

release all civilian

hostages immediately after October 7th, and three,

that according to an IDF drone operator, the Israeli military was

intentionally firing on civilians throughout Gaza during its

operations in the Palestinian territory.

The first two come from a Haaretz article titled, "Revealed:

Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before October

7th. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs,"

which was

released ahead of an upcoming Haaretz book about the hostage standoff in

Gaza. Haaretz describes a call between Netanyahu

and

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, citing

three foreign senior sources. Quote, "A week and a half before

October 7th, 2023, the Emirati ruler called Netanyahu from

the presidential palace in Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.

In that conversation, bin Zayed warned

that Hamas' leader in Gaza,

Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against

Israel.

Bin Zayed expressed concern that the event in question would not only

lead

to bloodshed, but also destabilize the entire region and

undermine the Abraham Accords." End quote.

Haaretz reports that rather than pass these warnings on to Israeli national

security officers, Netanyahu chose to sit on information

which an

unnamed Shin Bet official said could have, quote, "changed our entire

assessment of the picture."

Haaretz also notes that Israel had received similar warnings

about a coming

Hamas attack from Egyptian intelligence, which had been reported

earlier. These are just two items in the mountains

upon mountains upon mountains of evidence indicating that powerful

people in Israel knowingly allowed Hamas to inflict as much damage

as possible on October 7th, 2023, in order to

advance the murderous ethnic cleansing objectives we've seen rolled out in the

years since.

Nothing will turn you into a conspiracy theorist faster than learning

basic facts about what happened on October 7th.

But even without knowing those facts, it already strains credulity to

believe Israel had no advanced knowledge of a complex attack which would

require extensive open-air training in one of the most heavily

surveilled strips of land on our planet, especially when

you look at all the pre-existing military agendas Israel was able to push

forward in the aftermath.

Later in that same article, Haaretz quotes a Palestinian politician

named Samir Masharawi describing what Hamas leadership told him

during his mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas after October

7th. Quote, "He told me that in the first stage,

they had no problem releasing all civilians without anything in

return," Masharawi recounts. "I swear, those were

his exact words. All civilians without anything in

return. They had only one condition.

They wanted us to bring in an agreed-upon mediator as quickly as

possible so that negotiations could begin immediately over

everything else." Masharawi said Israel rejected the

offer. A senior Israeli defense official

corroborated this, telling

Haaretz, quote, "The release of the hostages did not even

enter the

list of war objectives formulated by the government on the night of October

7th. Could the proposal have been properly

discussed and a decision

reached?

In substantive terms, the answer is yes.

But the prevailing mood was like after Pearl Harbor.

We had just suffered a brutal blow.

We were in the midst of war. Who had the bandwidth to talk about

stopping the fighting and starting negotiations now, even

if it was to

save the lives of dozens of people whose final number was still unknown?"

So all that Hasbara about the hostages and the Bibas kids

and how Hamas needed to be destroyed because they were refusing to release

innocent civilian captives was complete bunk from the very

beginning. Hamas offered to release them with no

conditions but the opening of communication lines.

Israel refused because what they wanted was to steal more

Palestinian land. It was never about the hostages, and

anyone who said it was is a liar.

Lastly, a separate Hebrew report from Haaretz

quotes an Israeli Air

Force reserve major describing how IDF policies and culture

ensured the deaths of large numbers of civilians.

Here are a few quotes translated by Israeli-American political analyst

Shael Ben-Afreim. One, he was involved in the March 23,

2025 paramedic killings in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, and

said, "You could clearly tell these were rescue vehicles

even as fire was opened on them from the ground.

For no apparent reason, the force on the ground charged the

convoy.

They shot the first vehicle, the medical personnel got out, hid behind

the ambulances and begged for their lives, and the soldiers shot them

one after another."

Two, on how the yellow line was used as an excuse to kill

innocent people.

"The Palestinians didn't know it existed, and the Air Force wasn't always

updated either. From the perspective of a farmer walking

onto his own

land, he has no idea he's stepping into an area

the IDF

suddenly decided is a fire zone, and then all kinds of

retroactive justifications started coming up.

He came for an arms deal. He touched the ground.

Maybe he's planting an explosive.

To me, it looked like they were trying to incriminate people with no

intelligence

and no proof."

Three, on how all morals were lost in Gaza.

"The feeling was that something tore.

Everyone had already become cynical about death.

You can't understand it from the outside. It's not just fatigue.

It's an erosion of morality, of responsibility, of the sense that

something is still managing the event.

Very quickly, this whole business of collateral damage

disappeared from the

considerations. They fire on anyone they see.

The atmosphere started to be like the stands at a soccer match.

The way you shout at a player, 'Yalla, score!' That's how they shout at a

soldier, 'Kill him! Strike him!'" End quote.

Like the other revelations, this report further discredits the lies

the public

was sold about Israel's reasons for its atrocities in Gaza.

All those lies about how Israel is taking extraordinary measures to

protect civilian life in Gaza and only kills civilians because

Hamas, quote, "hides behind human shields" has been

thoroughly

discredited by mountains of evidence that Israel was going out of its way to

kill non-combatants throughout the course of the onslaught.

The world was lied to about the Gaza Holocaust, just like it was

lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the U.S.

involves itself in.

Please carry these lessons into the future.

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Peace.