Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
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.
Do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? Or are we just going to call any retaliation "terrorism"?
Yeah, it worked great for US forces when they captured uniformed, trained, ranked military in countries we decided were state sponsored terrorists, so they weren't military, just 'enemy combatants' being 'extraordinarily renditioned' to an 'advanced interrogation' in a 'happy play time building' or what ever insane bullshit we were saying when we were 'liberating' oil fields, poppy fields, and other private resources to be carefully maintained by a trusted and legitimate corporation rather than being LOOTED, by a dictator to do evil shit like... build schools and hospitals... but also chemical weapons he bought. And WE KNOW!!! because we sold them to him.
But yes....
They are clearly all terrorists. Particularly when they attack Israeli police or military.
He was suspected of involvement in a shooting at a kibbutz near the West Bank. There is no right to attack settlements with no military value.
You mean like a game cafe
So they assassinated him instead of arresting him?
Sooo much legal.
Aren't settlements military outposts?
Settlers have no right to be in the settlements, either.
Also, suspected isn’t enough.
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.
Ehhh not exactly. We describe it as a war when Israel is doing the killing (37k civilians dead) but we describe it as a terrorist attack when Hamas does the killing (<1000 civilians dead).
You're not wrong
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.
Wow, You actually don't realize that Hamas is not a political organization in the West Bank. So, it isn't even a war.
You're literally justifying the murder of children here because they are Palestinian. You don't even have the fig leaf of saying that it is a population that voted for Hamas.
You're literally justifying the unjustifiable murder of children.
Hamas isn't in the west bank. This is straight up butchery and terror by the Israeli government.