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  1. 1International Court of Justice (2024). Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports 2024.
  2. 2International Criminal Court (2024). Situation in the State of Palestine: Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The Court sought warrants against Hamas leaders in the same proceedings; see [56]. ICC-01/18, 21 November 2024.
  3. 3International Court of Justice (2024). Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). Provisional Measures Order, 26 January 2024.
  4. 4International Court of Justice (2024). *Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).* The Hague: ICJ. On the Commission's finding, see UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2025), *Israeli Authorities and Israeli Security Forces Have Committed and Are Continuing to Commit Genocide Against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip*, A/HRC/60/CRP.3, 16 September 2025, and the OHCHR press release of the same date.
  5. 5Pappé, I. (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications.
  6. 6Herzl, T. (1896). Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State]. Leipzig and Vienna: M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung.
  7. 7Said, E. (1979). The Question of Palestine. New York: Times Books.
  8. 8Khalidi, W. (Ed.) (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington DC: Institute for Palestine Studies.
  9. 9Sand, S. (2009). The Invention of the Jewish People. London: Verso.
  10. 10Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  11. 11Segev, T. (2000). One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate. New York: Metropolitan Books.
  12. 12Balfour Declaration (1917). Letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild, 2 November 1917. UK National Archives, FO 371/3054.
  13. 13Shlaim, A. (2000). The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. London: Allen Lane.
  14. 14United Nations General Assembly (1947). Resolution 181 (II): Future Government of Palestine. A/RES/181(II), 29 November 1947.
  15. 15Flapan, S. (1987). The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. New York: Pantheon Books.
  16. 16UNRWA (2024). Palestine Refugees. Available at: www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees. [The agency estimates over 5.9 million registered Palestinian refugees as of 2024.]
  17. 17Jabotinsky, Z. (1923). 'The Iron Wall.' Razsvyet, 4 November 1923.
  18. 18Gorenberg, G. (2006). The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977. New York: Times Books.
  19. 19Shapira, Y. & Elitzur, Y. (2009). Torat HaMelech [The King's Torah]. Yitzhar. On the endorsement, the High Court's characterisation and the closure of the investigation see: Haaretz (2012), ‘Israel's AG Closes Probe Into Authors of Allegedly Racist Book’, 29 May 2012; The Forward (2010), ‘Rabbinic Text or Call to Terror?’.
  20. 20Netanyahu, B. (2023). Address to troops, 28 October 2023. Cited in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (South Africa v. Israel), ICJ, December 2023. On the response: Times of Israel (2024), ‘PM's Office Says It's Preposterous to Say His Invoking Amalek Was a Genocide Call’.
  21. 21On the Hebraisation policy and Ben-Gurion's administrative order requiring Hebrew names of senior military and diplomatic officials, see the biographical record of Israel's prime ministers and the scholarship on name-changing in the Yishuv and early state.
  22. 22Davidovitch, N. & Margalit, A. (2008). 'Public Health, Racial Tensions, and Body Politic: Mass Ringworm Irradiation in Israel, 1949–1960.' *Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics*, 36(3).
  23. 23Kedmi Commission (2001), *Report of the State Commission of Inquiry into the Disappearance of Children from Yemen, the East and the Balkans*; Israel State Archives (2016), release of over 400,000 declassified documents on the Yemenite Children Affair, 28 December 2016, and subsequent releases 2017–18.
  24. 24Shohat, E. (1988). 'Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims.' *Social Text*, 19/20, 1–35. See also Chetrit, S.S. (2010), *Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews*, London: Routledge; Shenhav, Y. (2006), *The Arab Jews*, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  25. 25On the blood bank policy and the protests that followed its disclosure, *Ma'ariv*, January 1996, and contemporaneous reporting in *The Washington Post*, 25 January 1996. See also Seeman, D. (1999), '"One People, One Blood": Public Health, Political Violence and HIV in an Ethiopian-Israeli Setting.'
  26. 26Israeli Educational Television (2013), investigation by Gal Gabbay into the administration of Depo-Provera to Ethiopian Israeli women; Israel Ministry of Health directive of the Director-General, January 2013; fertility figures from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Reported in *The Times of Israel*, 'Ethiopian Birth Control Revelations Ignite Debate', and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 28 January 2013.
  27. 27On the beating of Damas Pakada, April 2015, and the killing of Solomon Teka, 30 June 2019, and the protests that followed each, see contemporaneous reporting in *The Times of Israel*, CNN and *The Washington Post*, and the subsequent acquittal of the officer.
  28. 28Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books.
  29. 29Abu-Lughod, L. & Sa'di, A. (Eds.) (2007). Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press.
  30. 30United Nations Security Council (1967). Resolution 242: The Situation in the Middle East. S/RES/242, 22 November 1967.
  31. 31UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2024). *Settlements in the West Bank.* OCHA Factsheet. Jerusalem: OCHA; UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2024). *Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.* March 2024; Peace Now (2025). *The Year of Annexation and Expulsion: Summary of Settlement Activity in 2024.*
  32. 32Finkelstein, N. (2000). The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. London: Verso.
  33. 33Butler, J. (2012). Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. New York: Columbia University Press.
  34. 34Stern, K. (2021). The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate. Toronto: New Jewish Press.
  35. 35International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (2016). Working Definition of Antisemitism. Available at: www.holocaustremembrance.com.
  36. 36Lifton, R.J. (1961). *Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of ‘Brainwashing’ in China.* New York: Norton.
  37. 37Lifton, R.J. (2019). *Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry.* New York: The New Press.
  38. 38Lalich, J. (2004). *Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults.* Berkeley: University of California Press.
  39. 39ACLU (2023). Anti-BDS Laws Across the United States. Available at: www.aclu.org.
  40. 40Peled-Elhanan, N. (2012). Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. London: I.B. Tauris.
  41. 41Haaretz / Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research (2019). ‘Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs.’ 5 July 2019, including the interview with Yehiel Horev, former head of Malmab.
  42. 42International Court of Justice (2004). Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports 2004, p. 136.
  43. 43Presser, A. (2025). Remarks at the 17th World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly, Jerusalem, May 2025 (video); Poulson, J. (2025). 'TikTok to Ban Some Criticisms of Zionism Following Pressure from NGO Backed by Former Israeli Intelligence Officials.' *All-Source Intelligence Fusion Center*.
  44. 44Breaking the Silence (Various years). Testimonies from Israeli Soldiers. Available at: www.breakingthesilence.org.il.
  45. 45Israel Ministry of Defence, Rehabilitation Department, caseload figures and 2028 projections as reported in *The Times of Israel* and *The Media Line*, 2024–2025.
  46. 46Meir, G. (1969). Interview with Frank Giles, *The Sunday Times*, 15 June 1969.
  47. 47UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2025). *‘More Than a Human Can Bear’: Israel’s Systematic Use of Sexual, Reproductive and Other Forms of Gender-Based Violence Since 7 October 2023.* Geneva: OHCHR, 13 March 2025; UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (2026). Report on the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children, 23 June 2026, and OHCHR press release of the same date; Human Rights Watch (2025). *‘Five Babies in One Incubator’: Violations of Pregnant Women’s Rights Amid Israel’s Assault.* 28 January 2025; UN Women (2024). *Gender Alert — Gaza: A War on Women’s Health.* September 2024; World Health Organisation (2024). *Health Cluster Bulletin: Gaza.* November 2024. On the Al Basma IVF centre, see Shoman, H. (2025), ‘Israel’s War on Reproduction in Gaza’, *MERIP*, June 2025.
  48. 48Zablocki, B. (1998). ‘Exit Cost Analysis: A New Approach to the Scientific Study of Brainwashing.’ *Nova Religio*, 1(2), 216–249.
  49. 49Stein, A. (2017). *Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems.* London: Routledge.
  50. 50Cohen, S. (2001). *States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering.* Cambridge: Polity Press.
  51. 51Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2023). Statement on October 7th Attacks, 7 October 2023.
  52. 52Sixth Zionist Congress, Basel, 23–28 August 1903, resolution to despatch an expedition to the proposed territory in British East Africa, carried 295–178. On the El Arish and Cyprus proposals, see Herzl's diaries and correspondence with Joseph Chamberlain, 1902–3.
  53. 53United Nations General Assembly (1948). Resolution 194 (III). A/RES/194, 11 December 1948.
  54. 54Congressional Research Service. *U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments Since October 7, 2023.* RL33222. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Cumulative totals in current and inflation-adjusted dollars as reported there and by the Council on Foreign Relations.
  55. 55B'Tselem (2021). A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid. Jerusalem: B'Tselem.
  56. 56International Criminal Court (2024). *Situation in the State of Palestine: Pre-Trial Chamber I Issues Warrant of Arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (‘Deif’).* The Hague: ICC, 21 November 2024. On the withdrawn applications against Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar following confirmation of their deaths, see the Chamber’s decisions of 9 August and 25 October 2024.
  57. 57Hostages and Missing Families Forum, public statements 2024–2025, as reported in *The Times of Israel*.
  58. 58Festinger, L., Riecken, H.W. & Schachter, S. (1956). *When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World.* Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  59. 59Lifton, R.J. (1986). *The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.* New York: Basic Books, on the concept of doubling.
  60. 60Mearsheimer, J. & Walt, S. (2007). The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  61. 61International Court of Justice (2024). Provisional Measures Order (South Africa v. Israel), 26 January 2024.
  62. 62Khalidi, R. (2020). The Hundred Years' War on Palestine. New York: Metropolitan Books.
  63. 63Chomsky, N. & Pappé, I. (2015). On Palestine. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
  64. 64White House (2020). The Abraham Accords. Available at: www.whitehouse.gov.
  65. 65UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2020). Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in the Activities Detailed in Paragraph 96 of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission Report. A/HRC/43/71, 12 February 2020.
  66. 66Loewenstein, A. (2023). The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. London: Verso.
  67. 67Amnesty International (2021). The Pegasus Project. London: Amnesty International.
  68. 68UN OCHA. *Settler Violence in the West Bank: Data Overview.* Jerusalem: OCHA — annual datasets 2023 and 2024, and monthly Protection of Civilians reporting through mid-2026. See also UN News (2026) on the 2026 monthly rate and cumulative totals.
  69. 69Times of Israel (2026). ‘Settlers Drove an Entire Village into Exile. Palestinians Say the State Is Keeping Them Away.’
  70. 70On the three cases against Benjamin Netanyahu (Cases 1000, 2000 and 4000), the conclusion of cross-examination in June 2026 and the pardon application submitted to President Herzog on 30 November 2025, see contemporaneous reporting in *Haaretz*, *The Times of Israel* and *The Jerusalem Post*.
  71. 71Israel Ministry of Defence, annual defence export figures: $14.8 billion for 2024 and $19.2 billion for 2025, a fifth consecutive record. See *The Times of Israel*, 'Israeli Arms Sales Break Record for 5th Year in Row', and *Defense News*, 5 June 2025.
  72. 72Congressional Research Service, *U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel*, RL33222, on the requirement that approximately 74 per cent of Foreign Military Financing be spent on American goods and services, and on the phasing out of Offshore Procurement so that the entire allocation must be spent in the United States by 2028.
  73. 73Adalah — The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. The Discriminatory Laws Database. Available at: www.adalah.org/en/law/index.
  74. 74Human Rights Watch (2021). A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution. New York: HRW.
  75. 75Amnesty International (2022). Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity. London: Amnesty International.
  76. 76Common Dreams (2024). AIPAC Spent $100 Million on 2024 Election Cycle. 28 August 2024.
  77. 77Senor, D. & Singer, S. (2009). Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle. New York: Twelve.
  78. 78Amnesty International (2009). Troubled Waters: Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water. London: Amnesty International.
  79. 79+972 Magazine & Local Call (2024). 'Lavender: The AI Machine Directing Israel's Bombing Spree in Gaza.' 3 April 2024.
  80. 80+972 Magazine (2024). 'A Mass Assassination Factory: Inside Israel's Calculated Bombing of Gaza.' 30 November 2023.
  81. 81Human Rights Watch (2024). Q&A: Israeli Military's Use of Digital Tools in Gaza. New York: HRW, 10 September 2024.
  82. 82Guardian / +972 Magazine / Local Call (2025). 'Israel Developing ChatGPT-like Tool Using Surveillance of Palestinians.' 6 March 2025.
  83. 83Guardian / +972 Magazine / Local Call (2025). 'Microsoft Cuts Israeli Military Unit's Access After Investigation.' 26 September 2025.
  84. 84Bloomberg (2025). 'TikTok Says It Signed Agreements for New US Joint Venture.' 18 December 2025; Variety (2025). 'TikTok U.S. Joint Venture Deal Set to Close in January With Investors Including Oracle, Silver Lake, Abu Dhabi's MGX.' 19 December 2025; New Arab (2025). 'Pro-Israel Billionaires and UAE Royals: Meet TikTok's New Owners.' 26 September 2025.
  85. 85The Intercept (2025). 'Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See.' 21 December 2025.
  86. 86Al Jazeera (2026). 'Gaza-based Journalist Bisan Owda Regains TikTok Account After Outcry.' 30 January 2026; Truthout (2026). 'TikTok Restricts Gaza Journalist Bisan Owda's Account Mere Days After US Deal.' 29 January 2026.
  87. 87Jewish Insider (2025). 'TikTok Sale Could Be ‘Consequential’ for Israel, Jews, Netanyahu Tells Influencers.' 25 September 2025; New Arab (2025). 'Netanyahu Says Social Media Israel’s New ‘Weapon’.'
  88. 88Middle East Eye (2025). 'TikTok Hires Ex-Israeli Army Instructor as New Hate Speech Manager.' 31 July 2025; Fang, L. (2025). 'Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers.'; Poulson, J. (2025). 'TikTok to Ban Some Criticisms of Zionism Following Pressure from NGO Backed by Former Israeli Intelligence Officials.'
  89. 89Haaretz (2025). ‘“Jews, Rebel!”: Ex-Knesset Speaker Calls on World Jews to Take Israel to ICJ Over Gaza War Crimes.’ 10 August 2025. On the nationality registration case, see Middle East Monitor (2021), ‘Ex-Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Gives Up “Jewish Nationality” in Protest Over Racist Law.’
  90. 90Tutu, D. (2002). 'Apartheid in the Holy Land.' The Guardian, 29 April 2002.
  91. 91Polakow-Suransky, S. (2010). The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. New York: Pantheon Books.
  92. 92United Nations (1998). Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Article 7(1)(j) and 7(2)(h); and International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1973), A/RES/3068 (XXVIII).
  93. 93Federal Election Commission filings, 2024 cycle, United Democracy Project (C00799031), independent expenditures as itemised by ProPublica. See also FactCheck.org (2024), ‘United Democracy Project’; NPR (2024), ‘Why Pro-Israel PACs Are Helping Oust Democrats in Their Primaries’, 7 August 2024; Sludge (2025), ‘Here Is All the Money AIPAC Spent on the 2024 Elections’, 24 January 2025.
  94. 94On the campaigns run by CAMERA and HonestReporting and their documented outcomes — retractions, rewordings and dismissals — see Misbar (2024, 2025) investigations into both organisations, and the Institute for Palestine Studies on the targeting of Palestinian journalists.
  95. 95On Canary Mission's operations since 2015 and its use by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, see *The Forward*, 'Anti-BDS Blacklist Canary Mission Is Getting Scarier'; J Street (2018), statement on the Israeli government's use of Canary Mission material; and reporting on the 2025 arrest of a Tufts graduate student.
  96. 96Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (2017–18). *The Lobby* and *The Lobby — USA.* The American instalment was not broadcast following pressure on the network and entered the public domain through leaks. On the Ministry of Strategic Affairs' role, see also contemporaneous reporting in *Haaretz* and *The Electronic Intifada*.
  97. 97On settlement expansion and territorial contiguity, see Peace Now, settlement watch data for 2024–2025, including the approval of 22 new settlements in 2025 and the E1 corridor plans; and Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (2025), '58 Years Since the 1967 War: Undermining the Two-State Solution.'
  98. 98Polling on support for a two-state solution diverges sharply by pollster and by question wording. Compare Gallup (2025), reporting 33 per cent Palestinian and 27 per cent Israeli support, with the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research's joint Palestinian-Israeli Pulse series, which records considerably higher figures. The divergence is itself informative and the ranges are given rather than a single number.
  99. 99Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles Field Office, report dated October 2020 recording information from a confidential human source, released by the US Department of Justice, February 2026. The report records the source's belief and the source's account of statements by third parties; it does not corroborate either.
  100. 100Al Jazeera (2026). 'Epstein Linked to Israeli "Deep State", US Intel, Says Vance: What We Know.' 16 July 2026.
  101. 101On the reliability of the earliest version of the Mossad allegation, see the 1993 bipartisan House Task Force assessment of Ari Ben-Menashe's testimony. On the denials, see the statements of former Mossad director Yossi Cohen (2025), of Alan Dershowitz, and of Benjamin Netanyahu, the last of whom argued that Epstein's relationship with Barak — his political opponent — proved the opposite of Mossad involvement. The January 2026 release of some 3.5 million pages contains no document establishing that Epstein was an intelligence asset of any state.
  102. 102Asch, S.E. (1951). ‘Effects of Group Pressure Upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgments.’ In: Guetzkow, H. (Ed.), *Groups, Leadership and Men.* Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press.
  103. 103Lebanon Ministry of Public Health, cumulative casualty figures to 27 November 2024, as compiled in Human Rights Watch (2025), *World Report 2025: Lebanon*; World Bank (2024), Lebanon rapid damage and needs assessment.
  104. 104Amnesty International (2025). Lebanon: Israel's Extensive Destruction of Southern Lebanon. London: Amnesty International, August 2025.
  105. 105Times of Israel (2025). ‘IDF to Remain in Five Strategic Posts in South Lebanon After Tuesday Withdrawal.’ 17 February 2025. See also: France 24, ‘Israel to Remain in Five Strategic Points in Lebanon Despite Withdrawal Deadline’, 17 February 2025; Al Jazeera, 17 February 2025.
  106. 106House of Commons Library (2025). Israel-Iran 2025: Developments in Iran's Nuclear Programme and Military Action. Research Briefing CBP-10284. London: UK Parliament.
  107. 107House of Commons Library (2025). Iran: Impacts of June 2025 Israel and US Strikes. Research Briefing CBP-10292. London: UK Parliament. See also: Al Jazeera (2026), ‘US, Israel Bomb Iran: A Timeline of Talks and Threats Leading Up to Attacks’, 28 February 2026.
  108. 108Casualty ranges compiled from cross-source trackers as at 30 July 2026; see also Britannica (2026), ‘2026 Iran War’, and ‘Casualties of the 2026 Iran War’. Timeline from Al Jazeera (2026), ‘US, Israel Bomb Iran: A Timeline of Talks and Threats Leading Up to Attacks’, 28 February 2026. Figures in this passage are stated as at the end of July 2026 and will have moved.
  109. 109Brookings Institution (2026). 'From Chokepoint to Crisis: The Strait of Hormuz and Global Oil Markets.'; Bloomberg (2026). 'Iran War: How High Could Oil Prices Get with Strait of Hormuz Closure?'; NPR (2026). 'More Marines Headed to Mideast; Trump Mulls Winding Down Iran War.' 20 March 2026.
  110. 110Center for Strategic and International Studies (2026). 'Iran War Cost Estimate Update: $11.3 Billion at Day 6, $16.5 Billion at Day 12.'; The Hill (2026). 'Cost of Iran War Grows, as Trump Throws Its End into Question.'
  111. 111Figures compiled from: Human Rights Watch (2026), ‘Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres’, 16 January 2026; NPR (2026), ‘At Least 6,126 People Killed in Iran's Crackdown on Nationwide Protests, Activists Say’, 27 January 2026; Amnesty International (2026), ‘What Happened at the Protests in Iran?’; Iran International (2026), reporting the Sunday Times compilation by doctors inside Iran, 18 January 2026.
  112. 112Israeli social security and forensic identification data, as reported in AFP / France 24 (2023), 'Israel Social Security Data Reveals True Picture of Oct 7 Deaths', 15 December 2023, and Al Jazeera (2023), 'Israel Revises Down Toll from October 7 Attack to "Around 1,200"', 10 November 2023.
  113. 113Haaretz (2024). Investigation into the use of the Hannibal Directive on 7 October 2023, published July 2024, based on military documents and testimony from serving officers. See also Al Jazeera (2024), 'Israeli Army Used Hannibal Directive During October 7 Hamas Attack: Report', 7 July 2024, and the subsequent confirmation by Israel's defence minister. On Kibbutz Be'eri and the house of Pessi Cohen, see Brigadier General Barak Hiram's account to the *New York Times*, and *Haaretz*, 6 February 2024, 'Israeli Army Probing Death of 12 Hostages in Kibbutz Be'eri House Shelled on Orders of Senior Officer', together with the IDF's own subsequent investigation clearing the officer. On the Nova festival, *Haaretz* reporting of the Israeli police investigation and interrogations of captured fighters, and the Israeli police statement urging media restraint in covering it.
  114. 114United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (2024). *Mission Report: Official Visit to Israel and the Occupied West Bank, 29 January – 14 February 2024.* New York: United Nations, March 2024.
  115. 115United Nations (2017). Report on UNCTAD Assistance to the Palestinian People: Developments in the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. TD/B/64/3.
  116. 116UN Human Rights Council (2019). Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A/HRC/40/74.
  117. 117Gaza Ministry of Health / UN OCHA (2024). Cumulative Casualties Update. October 2024.
  118. 118UNOSAT (2024). Gaza Strip Comprehensive Building and Housing Unit Damage Assessment, September 2024. Geneva: UNITAR/UNOSAT.
  119. 119International Court of Justice (2024). *Provisional Measures Order (South Africa v. Israel).* The Hague: ICJ, 26 January 2024, and subsequent orders.
  120. 120Netanyahu, B. (2019). Remarks to the Likud faction, 12 March 2019, on the transfer of Qatari funds to Gaza. Reported in *The Times of Israel*, ‘For Years, Netanyahu Propped Up Hamas. Now It’s Blown Up in Our Faces’, and in Raz, A., *+972 Magazine*.
  121. 121New York Times (2023). Reporting on the Hamas battle plan codenamed Jericho Wall, obtained by Israeli officials more than a year before the attack and assessed as aspirational; and on the Unit 8200 analyst's warning three months beforehand. See also NBC News (2023), 'Israeli Military Analysts Flagged Hamas Plans to "Start a War" Before Terror Attack'.
  122. 122On the repeated refusal to establish a state commission of inquiry into 7 October, the objection to judicial appointment of its members, and the government's alternative investigative framework, see *The Times of Israel* and *The Jerusalem Post*, 2024–2026.
  123. 123United Nations General Assembly, Resolution 3070 (XXVIII) of 30 November 1973 and Resolution 37/43 of 3 December 1982, reaffirming the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle. See also Resolution 3236 (XXIX) of 1974 on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.
  124. 124Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 1977, Article 1(4).
  125. 125UNCTAD (2023). Gaza War: Economic Impact and Reconstruction Costs. Geneva: UNCTAD.
  126. 126Amnesty International (2024). ‘Israel Must End Mass Incommunicado Detention and Torture of Palestinians from Gaza.’ 8 July 2024; Amnesty International UK (2024). ‘Israel: Palestinians from Gaza Held in Secret Detention Describe Torture — New Testimonies’; Amnesty International (2026). ‘Israel/OPT: Decision to Drop Charges Against Soldiers Accused of Abuse of Palestinian Detainee Disgraceful.’ March 2026.
  127. 127Human Rights Watch (2026). ‘West Bank: Surge in Settler Violence Threatens Mass Atrocities.’ 24 July 2026. See also: UN News (2026), ‘UN Warns West Bank Settler Violence Hits All-Time High as Calls Grow to End Occupation’, 29 July 2026.
  128. 128UN OCHA (2024). Protection of Civilians Report: West Bank. January 2024.
  129. 129Save the Children (2022). *Trapped: The Impact of 15 Years of Blockade on the Mental Health of Gaza's Children.* London: Save the Children, June 2022; Save the Children (2024). ‘“Complete Psychological Destruction”: Children in Gaza Have Suffered “Relentless Mental Harm” During Five Months of War.’ March 2024; ‘Addressing the Mental Health Crisis Among Children in Gaza’, *The Lancet Psychiatry* (2024).
  130. 130Pappé, I. (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. Chapter 4.
  131. 131Fisk, R. (1990). Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  132. 132Government of Israel — Kahan Commission (1983). Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut. Jerusalem, 8 February 1983.
  133. 133UN Human Rights Council (2015). Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict. A/HRC/29/52.
  134. 134UNRWA (2024). Gaza Displacement Figures. October 2024.
  135. 135Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (2024). Gaza Strip: Famine Is Imminent as 1.1 Million People, Half of Gaza, Experience Catastrophic Food Insecurity. IPC Alert, March 2024. See also: IPC (2025), Gaza Strip: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for 1 July – 15 August 2025, famine confirmation of 22 August 2025.
  136. 136UN Development Programme and UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2024). *Gaza War: Expected Socioeconomic Impacts on the State of Palestine.* May 2024. See also Al Jazeera (2024), ‘Gaza Will Need Largest Post-War Reconstruction Effort Since 1945, UN Says’, 2 May 2024.
  137. 137Gadna (Hebrew Youth Battalions), Israel Defence Forces Education Corps. See: Jerusalem Post, ‘Gadna Pre-Army Program Tries to Restore IDF's Appeal’; Ynetnews, ‘IDF to Start Drafting Students During Military Prep Week’.
  138. 138Adwan, S., Bar-Tal, D. & Wexler, B. (2016). ‘Portrayal of the Other in Palestinian and Israeli Schoolbooks: A Comparative Study.’ Political Psychology, 37(2), 201–217. Commissioned by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land; findings first released in 2013.
  139. 139*The Times of Israel* (2025). 'Defense Ministry Facing Severe Shortage of Therapists to Treat Soldiers with PTSD'; and 'Reservists Being Called Up Despite Recognized Mental Wounds, Including PTSD'.
  140. 140Knesset Research and Information Centre (2025). *Soldier Suicides and Suicide Attempts.* Jerusalem: Knesset, reported October 2025; see also *Haaretz*, 28 October 2025, and IDF annual figures for 2024 and 2025.
  141. 141On the reservists' letters of May and October 2024 and the air force letter of 10 April 2025, see CNN, 25 October 2024, and contemporaneous Israeli reporting; on the decline in reserve turnout, Kan (Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation).
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