***

A heartbreaking parting shot of Ahmad Jazar, taken the day before he was killed. His mother’s hand is on his shoulder, as if she is about to hug him; they both smile slightly as they look straight into the camera. The photo was taken by Ahmad’s older sister, Mira, an interior design student of 19, in Nablus, when Ahmad was visiting his mother. Ahmad had asked his sister to take their picture. No one imagined that it would be his last.

The next day, January 19, Ahmad was shot by an Israel Defense Forces soldier from a distance of a few dozen meters, in his hometown of Sebastia, in the northern West Bank. At the time, he was standing near the entrance to a kindergarten run by the international Save the Children organization. Images of cheerful children, naïve and colorful, adorn the stone fence around the building. Next to it Ahmad, a 15-year-old boy from a poor family, collapsed to the ground, bleeding, and died.

      • Edwardthefma99✡@lemmy.worldEnglish
        110·
        10 hours ago

        tell that to Hitler who forced some of my relatives to live as human ginny pigs in Nuremberg so don’t talk to me about genocide until you have met a real victim of genocide

    • t3b4k@feddit.nlEnglish
      217·
      1 day ago

      This is the equivalent of Worldnews on Reddit, full of bots that are doing terrorism apologists.

      For them everything is justifiable because Islam is a religion of peace and they know better than Mosab Hassan Yousef.

      I would love to have more moderations for these types of people without critical thinking. Full of populism on one side or another, it is time to change this.

        • t3b4k@feddit.nlEnglish
          112·
          23 hours ago

          Weird that most of the people spreading terrorist propaganda here are the same telling that “he is an Israeli spy” or “he does not live in Palestine”.

          What can I say. I finally see people predicating judgments towards Israel but never towards “Palestinian authorities” (terrorist groups) that they did everything in their power to kill, imprisoned and destroy lives of their fellow citizens by giving terrorist education to children for then go inside another country and kill in cold blood civilians.

          Weird also that people like you absolutely erase from there memory movements like “We want to live” in Palestine where all of them got imprisoned and nobody ever talked about it.

          Casually you people are the same that (always casually) fill up subreddits like Worldnews.

          Now that you know the facts you should sit down from the podium of misinformation and check the facts without glorifying one of the other side of the organizations involved.

          You know nothing and it shows.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        22 hours ago

        Just a reminder that you’re in a thread about the IDF murdering a child.

        Not sure about you, but I’d be pretty terrified if that happened to my family or in my town or even in my country…

        • t3b4k@feddit.nlEnglish
          111·
          22 hours ago

          Like everybody would be and nobody should justify that and to of course bring to court the person that did that.

          The same doesn’t happen in Palestine and everybody is aware of it but many tend to justify when the reality is that Palestinians are against both Israel and terrorist groups backed up by foreign countries.

          If you don’t agree you are being disingenuous.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            7·
            21 hours ago

            Huh? Maybe it’s just me, but I’m having trouble understanding what your position is…

            For one though, everybody is not aware of it. And many who are do not care.

            Sadly, this is not a rare occurance, even before Oct 7. But since then, you could find a headline like this (or worse) at least every week or two on average. At some point it becomes a pattern, and that point was years (if not decades) ago.