Around 9:30 p.m. in late February, a white Mazda pulled up near a game cafe in the Jenin refugee camp on the northern edge of the West Bank, where a crowd of boys and young men often gathered to socialize.
As the car stopped, a few people walked by on the narrow street. Two motorbikes weaved past in different directions. “Everything was fine at the time,” according to an eyewitness sitting nearby in the camp’s main square.
Then the car erupted in a ball of flame. Two missiles fired from an Israeli drone had hit the Mazda in quick succession, as shown in a video the Israeli Air Force posted that night.
According to the IAF, the strike killed Yasser Hanoun, described as “a wanted terrorist.”
But Hanoun was not the only fatality: 16-year old Said Raed Said Jaradat, who was near the vehicle when it was hit, sustained shrapnel wounds all over his body, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International-Palestine. He died from his injuries at 1 a.m. the next morning.
Jaradat is one of 24 children killed in Israel’s airstrikes on the West Bank since last summer, when the Israeli forces began deploying drones, planes, and helicopters to carry out attacks in the occupied territory for the first time in decades.
Oh, but I’ve been told that Gazans voted for Hamas, so they’re getting what they deserve. Awfully young voting age they have in Gaza…
Just to be clear, this is the West Bank, so it isn’t even Hamas.
Okay, Hezbollah then.
Do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? Or are we just going to call any retaliation “terrorism”?
It’s a war, they’re both allowed to attack each other. Palestinians are going to lose though, the two sides are not equal.
All this peacefire talk is just a nice way of framing the Palestinian surrender. The only question is how long Hamas will keep fighting before they are forced to give in.
No, they’re allowed to defend themselves. You’re not allowed to start a war, that’s a violation of international humanitarian law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_ad_bellum
And before you reply, no, history did not start on October 7th.
History for Israel started on May 14, 1948, 8 hours before the British protectorate ended.
The war started on May 15, 1948, when 5 Arab nations invaded Israel because they weren’t happy with the UN borders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War
Israel fought back, and has been fighting back ever since.
“Fighting back” by heavily bombarding a Palestine area that has no offensive means due to decades of slowly administered austerity measures. From a land their diaspora didnt own for the last 2000 years…
To be fair they literally asked for it and continue to do so by taking and not releasing the hostages.
Edit: It doesn’t help that when killed the other civilians refer to them as martyrs. The whole thing is incredibly ugly and done for imo stupid reasons on both sides.
Israel is was holding hostages before October 7. You are implying that Israel asked for October 7.
No need to lie. Israel isn’t innocent, but Hamas has a demonstrated reliable record of using civilian deaths for their ends. They are counting on your naivete to gain sympathy and support and you’re falling for it when in actuality this is their ducks coming home to roost.
Surrender. Release the Hostages. Crisis averted. Do they? Nerp. Instead its “you’re killing civilians like we’ve intentionally aimed for for decades! Unfair plane!”
