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.
The median age in gaza is 19.6
So almost half the population are children, and this includes a large number of Hamas fighters. They don’t wait until they’re adults to recruit. There are verified reports of them using kids down to age 12.
That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to justify killing thousands of children
They aren’t killing children. They’re killing Hamas militants /s
Oh, right, child soldiers are mental gymnastics.
When you dehumanize and demonize your opponent to the extent you are right now, you have lost the moral high ground.
There’s no moral high ground, It’s a multi-thousand year civil/religious war.
I have one simple question.
Let’s say that Palestine is given statehood, with established fixed borders. Do you really think they’d stop attacking Israel at that point?