🧵6/6 Because before The Hague, before the American universities, before the condemnation in the Security Council, this is first and foremost an internal matter for us. And for 2 million Palestinians / An anonymous combat soldier who served in Gaza

🧵1/6 I'm not the story here. And this is also not an indictment against the IDF. That has a place elsewhere, in editorials, in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, at universities in the United States, at the UN Security Council

Ethnic cleansing in Gaza? Israel's ex-defense chief warns, extremist ministers confirm | Haaretz Today

1/ Our government, led by a Prime Minister accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court and backed by messianic radicals such as Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, has chosen to abandon the hostages to pursue a permanent occupation of Gaza.

It's not just Ben Gvir and Smotrich—Goldknopf, the Minister of Housing and Construction, is also part of the plan to establish settlements in Gaza, built over the bodies of the hostages and thousands of Palestinians. The Israeli government and the IDF are complicit in this plan.

Former Chief of Staff and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned Israeli is involved in ethnic cleansing. He said, "The path we are being dragged down is one of occupation, annexation and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip. Transfer, call it what you want, and Jewish settlements."

“The settlers and the two far-right parties in the government don't want a hostage deal of any kind, as it would disrupt their plans to reestablish the settlements. That's why hostage families fighting for their loved ones are harassed on the streets and humiliated in the Knesset” / Amos Harel

Lebanon deal serves the interests of Netanyahu, who is showing no sign of ending Gaza war / Amos Harel