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.

  • @TokenBoomer
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    35 months ago

    Because bad things happened in the past, we must allow bad things to happen in the present and future. The logic is sound.

    • @[email protected]
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      -15 months ago

      The border things in Israel happened a long time ago. Israel has had official control of the Palestinian territories for decades.

      The bad things that are happening now are primarily caused by Hamas attacking Israel.

      • @TokenBoomer
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        5 months ago

        Israel has had official control of the Palestinian territories for decades.

        there’s the problem

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          The US government has had control of the states for decades.

          Is that a problem too?

          When exactly did we decide that borders were no longer allowed to change when someone lost a war?

          • @TokenBoomer
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            -15 months ago

            Might makes right. Isn’t that the same irredentism that Putin used to invade Ukraine? 🇺🇦

            • @[email protected]
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              -25 months ago

              Putin has changed the borders, and the world accepted it (See Crimea)

              People don’t want it to be true, but it definitely is.