Millions of Israeli civilians have spent the past few days in bomb shelters as Palestinian terrorists bombard Israel’s south and center with rockets, over a thousand of which have been fired from Gaza since Monday.
Israel has been forced to defend itself from Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror, launching airstrikes against terrorist targets embedded in the Gaza Strip. Israel has also had to contend with a propaganda campaign presenting it as the aggressor and denying its right to self-defense. Politicians, NGOs, celebrities and, of course, the United Nations have bought into and are magnifying this assault on the truth.
UN Watch is fighting the lies online and calling out the perpetrators. These include UN Watch tweets refuting mistruths posted by U.S. Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, UN Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland, EU spokesperson Peter Stano, UNRWA Gaza director Matthias Schmale, and UN special rapporteur Michael Lynk. See below.
UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer also delivered a detailed backgrounder in an Instagram Live interview with podcaster Shanna Fuld.
LEFT: Honest UN official calls out Hamas for deliberately bombing Israeli humanitarian crossing to Gaza, killing 2 civilians, injuring 10, including IDF soldier, thus blocking aid to Gaza.
RIGHT: Dishonest @UNRWA claims Israel is preventing humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza. pic.twitter.com/HJVZ1QQCXD
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 19, 2021
Congresswoman, that U.N. report accusing Israel of 'apartheid' was authored by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Richard Falk, who was denounced by his own UN chief Ban Ki-moon and by the UK for antisemitism, and it was commissioned by Syria, Libya and 18 other Arab states. #factsmatter https://t.co/iwd4rMPESm
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 16, 2021
British commander: “Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.“
From 2009—yet still apt. pic.twitter.com/mEvs1BqbK8
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 16, 2021
Hamas targeting of Israeli civilians is a violation of Art. 51(2) of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention of 1949; and its use of Gaza civilians, including women and children, as human shields, is a violation of Art. 51(7) of the First Additional Protocol.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 16, 2021
Reminder: When Hamas attacks Israel from built-up areas, knowing there will be counter-fire against the rocket launchers, any resulting civilian casualties may be physically caused by Israel but the one that is responsible for their deaths under international law is Hamas.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 15, 2021
It’s midnight in Tel Aviv and Hamas terrorists are firing rockets at Israeli families.
If you think this is morally justified because you believe Israelis are baby-killers and thieves, you have swallowed a poisonous meme that has fueled hatred and killing of Jews for millennia. https://t.co/QK7bG9TPS6
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 15, 2021
RIGHT: Hamas rockets fired from Gaza to kill, injure and terrorize civilians across Israel.
LEFT: Israeli Iron Dome interceptors seeking to bring them down.
This is no blurry "cycle of violence." Hamas terrorists are attacking Israeli civilians. We need to stand with them. pic.twitter.com/UkNihQfwdP
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 14, 2021
Palestinians killed 17 of their own in Gaza on Monday with misfired rockets, before Israel even began any response in the area.
This never gets mentioned by people like HRW's @KenRoth because it doesn't serve their packaged narrative of Israel as inhuman.https://t.co/rndXD9vRLD
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 14, 2021
Dear @Malala: I have great respect for your courageous stand for women's rights, which got you shot and nearly killed.
But Western ideologues are misinforming you about Gaza. The perpetrator here is terrorist Hamas—the same kind of murderous Islamists who tried to kill you. https://t.co/XIhSnCjVYE
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 13, 2021
The reason Gaza is filled with rocket launchers and not bomb shelters is because that's the goal of Hamas: to incur civilian casualties by compelling Israel to engage in combat operations that are legally permissible but which the world will condemn. All to delegitimize Israel.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 13, 2021
Turns out the same Palestinian rulers who have no money for vaccines somehow have endless money to manufacture thousands of deadly rockets and construct miles of terror tunnels to attack Israeli civilians.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 13, 2021
Congresswoman, you are literally justifying terrorist groups firing rockets targeting Israeli men, women and children. Nothing caused them to commit these war crimes.
If you are progressive, why do you side with Hamas which just urged Arabs to "cut off the heads of the Jews"? https://t.co/l17QFwdKMW
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
Sir, when you say "proportionate," does the EU want Israel to indiscriminately rain down 1,000 rockets targeting civilians in Gaza?
Israel instead targets terrorists firing rockets at its people & warns civilians to get out of harm's way. No army in history ever did this better. https://t.co/4wHtNKaxwK
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
For years, UN reports ignored the use of human shields by Hamas, incentivizing these terror tactics in the future. The risk posed to the civilian population of Gaza was exacerbated. To truly mitigate harm done to civilians, we should condemn Hamas actions—and the UN's complicity.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
Sir, you are no longer Norway’s envoy to the Palestinians, you are the U.N. envoy for Mideast peace. If you speak of “the cost of war in Gaza” while ignoring 900 war crime rockets fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad at Israeli towns in 36 hours, your neutrality comes into question. https://t.co/yFokwK5Bp0
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
Imagine bombs raining down on London, Leeds & York.
Imagine bombs raining down on Paris, Lyon & Nice.
Imagine bombs raining down on LA, DC & Miami.
It's hard to imagine. Yet Hamas fired 900 rockets in 36 hours at Israeli towns. Kids are in bomb shelters.
Stand with Israel. pic.twitter.com/MezBrv6R2G
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
I mourn the loss of life of innocent civilians in both Israel and Gaza.
The NYT implies there's no chain of causation. This is false.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad attacked Israel with hundreds of rockets. Israel responded to stop the rockets. The terrorists bear full responsibility. pic.twitter.com/qmK1ReXKO6
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 11, 2021
UNRWA’s Gaza Director confirming that the IDF gives warnings to Palestinian civilians to evacuate buildings that have been targeted. https://t.co/VwM9oxl0xX
— Simon Plosker (@SimonPlosker) May 11, 2021
Today the U.N. human rights council's permanent monitor of "Israel's violations of international law" issued a statement condemning Israel over Jerusalem, but forgot to mention that Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired 400 rockets overnight at Jerusalem and other Israeli cities & towns. pic.twitter.com/fODk2NNeLj
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 11, 2021
Today’s Hamas assault on Israel, including 150 rockets fired at civilians, constitute grave violations of international law and a breach of international peace and security under the Charter of the United Nations. All states should work to bring justice to the perpetrators.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 10, 2021
Fact: The U.N. will do nothing about this. https://t.co/AzaUGcnBVI
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 10, 2021