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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.

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[–] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 49 points 5 months ago (85 children)

Do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? Or are we just going to call any retaliation "terrorism"?

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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...

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also this is the West Bank. They're governed by Fatah, not Hamas.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

That was my fault. I just keep hearing about more and more dead children in Gaza and then see people say that Gazans voted for Hamas so that's what you get when you do that...

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's be real here.

Israelis just like killing Palestinians.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Any claim otherwise is probably made in bad faith.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just to be clear, this is the West Bank, so it isn't even Hamas.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Considering Hamas ended all voting when they came into power, it seems unlikely these children did. Also because there children.

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

Hasbara is quite active on Lemmy recently

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