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2025-09-28 12:36 UTC

1/2 The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented a dangerous policy of extortion by Israeli forces against families in the Gaza Strip, presenting them with a catastrophic, no-win choice: either collaborate with the Israeli army and its militias, or face mass killing, starvation and forcible displacement. What began as individual extortion has escalated into a systematic, collective practice aimed at dismantling Palestinian social fabric by forcing people to betray their communities and subordinating survivors to survival conditions that destroy communal identity and resilience. The Monitor documented a massacre carried out by the Israeli army at dawn today against the Bakr family in Al-Shati camp (west of Gaza City), which killed nine family members, including women and children. This occurred one day after the family refused an Israeli demand to remain in place on the condition that its members form and serve in a local militia aligned with the army — similar to the “Abu Shabab” gang established east of Rafah. Our field team reported that Israeli forces have begun forming similar groups in multiple other areas of Gaza, including south Khan Younis, east Shuja’iyya and Beit Lahia in the north. @palestine@fedibird.com @israel@a.gup.pe

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@prolrage@todon.nl 2025-09-28 12:37

2/2 Citizen testimony (Motasem Bakr) to our team described how the family’s mukhtar was offered safety in return for his sons’ service in a militia. He refused and instructed his family to leave; they preferred sleeping in the streets rather than have their name recorded in family history as one that joined the road of betrayal. The Monitor also received reports that the Dairi and Daghmash families faced similar approaches. After they refused, the Israeli army intensified detonations of booby-trapped vehicles in the Sabra area and then carried out wide strikes that hit residential blocks including Daghmash family housing, resulting in more than sixty deaths in that family, many still under the rubble at the time of reporting. Previously, Israel practiced such pressure on an individual basis by contacting some mukhtars and offering them roles in aid distribution and coordination with its forces; many mukhtars and community leaders who rejected these proposals were later directly targeted. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6866/The-Israeli-occupation-is-coercing-Gaza-families:-%E2%80%9CCooperate-or-be-killed%E2%80%9D #IsraelTerroristState #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #zionazis #sumud @palestine@fedibird.com @israel@a.gup.pe

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