‘Israel’ tells troops to hide genocide after IOF soldiers denied entry to Australia

Genociders told not to post pictures of themselves doing genocide

Israeli occupation soldiers have been told, by an Israeli X propaganda account with apparent access to insider footage and information, to stop posting pictures of themselves ‘in the battlefields of Gaza or elsewhere’, where Israeli forces are engaged in their fifteenth month of genocide against the Palestinian people – because they may be arrested while travelling in other countries and their ‘vacation will turn into a nightmare’:

The account does not have a grey ‘tick’ used for official governmental and political accounts, but posts a steady stream of ‘hasbara’ – pro-Israel propaganda – alongside videos from within Gaza and other Israeli operations and commentary from within Israeli war-criminal PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.

The call for troops to keep their actions offline comes after two Israeli soldiers were refused visas to enter Australia because of their involvement in the Gaza genocide. The pair, brother and sister Omer and Ella Berger, in their twenties, were barred from travelling after being made to complete a thirteen-page form reserved for military personnel involved in war. Other members of their family were permitted to travel.

The form asks would-be travellers about their involvement in physical or psychological abuse, whether they have served as guards or officials in detention facilities and whether they taken part in war crimes or genocide. The answers they gave are unknown.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. One Berger sibling returned to Israel after the visa refusal, the other is said to be still in Thailand trying to persuade the Australian authorities to relent.

A family spokesman criticised the refusals, saying that ‘friendly allies’ should not be subjected to war crimes investigations. Former Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was denied an Australian visa in November over fears of ‘incitement’.

The government of Keir Starmer was exposed last week providing special diplomatic immunity to occupation military chief of staff Herzl Halevi in November so he could travel to the UK without fear of arrest for war crimes – a clear breach of the UK’s obligations, under international law, to do everything in its power to prevent or end genocide. Israel has killed more than 200,000 people during its genocide so far, overwhelmingly women and children, has maimed many more and is currently engaged in the starvation and slaughter of around 400,000 civilians in besieged northern Gaza.

Starmer, his Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have so far refused to say that they will arrest and extradite Gallant or Netanyahu if there is an opportunity to do so, instead referring misleadingly to lengthy legal processes that have to be followed before extradition to the ICC – a claim that is entirely untrue under the UK’s International Criminal Court Act.

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