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There is no more Beit Hanoun.
I said those words out loud as I watched the drone footage that you can see above.
I’ve seen studied tens of thousands of videos from Gaza. But this? This isn’t a battlefield. It is an aerial view of total erasure.
There are no homes.
No schools.
No mosques.
No roofs.
No walls.
No color.
Just gray ash, white dust, and rubble stretching endlessly in every direction.
The entire ancient city of Beit Hanoun — gone.
🏴 Israel posted the video themselves — with pride.
The video was shared by YINONEWS, an Israeli media outlet founded by former Knesset member Yinon Magal. In the top corner of the screen, they proudly stamped their logo, like they had just won a trophy.
In the caption, they bragged that the 8105 Battalion, Brigade 646, Paratroopers Reserves, the Givati Engineering Corps, and a military rabbi carried out the mission. It ended with:
“They did not leave a single stone upon another. Soon, throughout the entire Strip, God willing.”
They posted that publicly. With a video. With pride.
Let me say it again:
This is ethnic cleansing in its clearest, most documented form. THEY ADMIT IT!
🏰 Beit Hanoun has stood for centuries.
Beit Hanoun wasn’t just a city. It was a sacred place in Palestinian history.
In 1239, just west of the city, Ayyubid forces defeated the Crusaders at the Battle of Umm al-Nasser. They built the Umm al-Nasser Mosque — “Mother of Victories” — to commemorate that triumph.
Under the Mamluk Sultanate, Beit Hanoun served as a strategic postal station for the empire.
During the Ottoman era, it was a thriving agricultural town known for wheat, barley, olives, and citrus groves.
After the Nakba in 1948, it became home to families displaced from all across Palestine.
In the British Mandate period, it was known for its citrus fields and strong community institutions.
And throughout the modern era, it remained a corridor of culture, education, and resilience — despite the sieges, bombings, and invasions.
And now it’s gone. Erased in a matter of months.
🤬 Could any other country in the world do this?
Could any other country erase an entire ancient city — flatten it to the ground, remove 100% of its population — and it not even make the news?
Beit Hanoun was home to nearly 60,000 people.
It had schools, mosques, restaurants, and generations of history.
And now it’s a graveyard of dust and bricks.
Israel didn’t deny it.
They didn’t hide it.
They filmed it.
Posted it.
Celebrated it.
And promised more.
And still — no international condemnation. No emergency UN session. No sanctions. No calls for restraint.
WHY ISN’T THIS ALL OVER THE NEWS?????
Because it’s Gaza.
Because it’s Palestinians.
Because it’s Israel.
📸 I’ve seen the video. You need to see it too.
In the video I’ve included above, there is no ambiguity. From sky to earth, it’s just destruction. No streets. No infrastructure. Nothing but ruin.
This wasn’t a surgical strike.
It wasn’t a “terrorist target.”
It wasn’t a mistake.
It was a message.
“This is what happens when you live here.”
🛡️ This platform exists to make sure you don’t forget what they want you to ignore.
CNN won’t show you this.
The BBC won’t even say the name Beit Hanoun.
The New York Times won’t describe it as ethnic cleansing.
But we will.
Because if we don’t say it, no Western news outlet will.
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Let the world know this didn’t happen in secret. It happened in plain sight — and they still looked away.
Not here. Not us.
With grief and fury,
Shaun
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