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The Palestine/US journalist Shireen Abu Akleh aka 'Jazeerian' shot
through the head and slaughtered by an Israeli sniper.
MEMO - Middle East Monitor -
<<Gaza: Israel confesses to intentionally killing children to pressure
resistance
May 13, 2023
While the Israeli occupation boasts about targeting military leaders of
the Palestinian resistance, the photos and field reports in the Gaza
Strip reveal that the assassinations also caused the deaths of dozens of
Palestinian civilians, including women and children. Yossi Klein, a
writer for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, wrote: <There's nothing like
killing children for bringing together hearts and minds. For the past 18
weeks, Israelis have been fighting each other, unable to find anything
to bring us closer together. Then came the killing of the children in
the Gaza Strip and proved that we're brothers, after all.> Klein added
in an article translated by Arabi21: <Barriers fell, and ill will was
forgotten. Yair Lapid placed a consoling arm on Benjamin Netanyahu's
shoulder, while Benny Gantz leaned his head against May Golan, and it
was surprising that the entire Knesset didn't stand up and spontaneously
break out to sing 'Hatikva'. It must be admitted, killing children is
the most heinous of crimes. There is no crime more contemptible; in that
lies its despicableness and its power. It acts as a deterrent, it's
effective, and streams fresh, new blood to flow into our arteries.>
Klein noted: <If anyone had any doubt that the air force is strong and
threatening, the childrens' killing went and proved that it's too early
to say any eulogies for it. It's strong, it's terrifying and it's
confronting an army of about 30,000 soldiers who lack the means for
aerial combat,> pointing out that: <The killing of children and the
bombing of civilians are of greater deterrence and effectiveness than
any 'target bank', the infamous 'collapsing' of buildings, or any
attempt to 'eradicate the foundations of terrorism once and for
all.'>The writer conveyed: <Killing children is designed to cause pain,
to strike the most sensitive place of all. It isn't designed to stop
terrorism; it's designed to deter the terrorists and make us happy. When
Itamar Ben-Gvir talks about 'a painful blow,' I imagine that he's
referring precisely to that. In fact, he should change his election
slogan - not '50 dead terrorists for every missile,' but rather '50 dead
children for every missile,'> noting that killing Palestinian children
is an effective step engraved in the memory of Israeli public opinion.
Klein stressed: <The pictures of eight-year-old Ali Izzeldeen and his
12-year-old sister, Miar, are impossible to forget. They look too
similar to our own children - after all, everyone knows a child of a
similar age - and the thought that we killed them should give us no
rest. These thoughts will always continue to haunt us because these
pictures are not the result of just a minor misstep. It's not like a
pilot arrives, boards a plane, kills whatever number of nameless,
faceless human beings and returns for lunch. Here, with the dead
children from Gaza, these are pictures that will haunt him all his life
and appear in his nightmares. I'm sure that in the pilots' training
course they prepare cadets for such a situation - a case in which their
personal conscience stands in contradiction with their professional
duty.> These Israeli confessions may find their way to publication in
time. It holds the occupation army responsible for committing violent
massacres against Palestinian civilians, especially children, under the
pretext of deterring the Palestinian resistance, which has proven, in
all operations, its moral superiority over the occupation when it
avoided targeting women and children. Unlike the Israelis - by their own
admission.>>
Source:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230513-gaza-israel-confesses-to-intentionally-killing-children-to-pressure-resistance/
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