…that was a tweet from a man paying tribute to his cousin’s husband, someone who was beloved in their community, who was killed along with their cousin, their children, and their grandchildren.
Abdalhadi Alijla is an author living in Sweden, and I’m going to post the entirety of their post below:
They didn’t even mention the IDF. They didn’t even mention who killed them. It was a loving tribute. Not propaganda.
These stories remind me every day what is lost. That these aren’t “human shields.” They aren’t just unfortunate collateral damage. They aren’t all “protecting tunnels, living above rocket storage.”
Innocent Palestinian lives are treated in the abstract here. To the point that a tribute to a family that didn’t even mention Israel gets called propaganda.
It was 3700 children deaths yesterday. Today its 3900. On the West Bank, according to the UNOCHA since the 7th October 132 Palestinians have killed by Israeli forces or settlers. That includes 41 children.
It was an example of transparency and accountability, something you claimed literally no nation at war in history had ever acted in this way, and doubted one ever would.
Yeah. About that. Assuming you are talking about Issam Abdallah:
Reporters without Borders claim that their journalists were deliberately targeted and present evidence to back it up. The “apology” was we are “very sorry for the death of any civilian, whether they are journalists or any other civilians.” The incident is still under “investigation.” But I have no faith if the target wasn’t a media outlet that had documented exactly what happened, that an investigation would have happened in the first place. I remember when Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed. I remember the investigation. How it could not “unequivocally determine the source of the gunfire which hit Ms. Abu Akleh.” That it claimed it might have been an accident in an account that doesn’t match up with the video or the eyewitnesses. I will never ever forget this.
I don’t think the IDF thinks they are doing anything wrong here, so no, I won’t be expecting an objective review of their actions.
It doesn’t matter how many times the finger-pointers condemn Hamas, it doesn’t matter how many times the finger-pointers say “taking out Hamas is right and just”, it doesn’t matter how many times the finger-pointers say "Hamas are evil, terrorists and murderers…
It doesn’t matter how many times we say all of those things, you won’t listen to us unless we accept your exact narrative frame.
I can tell you right now: the IDF aren’t going to listen to me even if I did what you asked.
As if they were going to listen to me anyway LOL.
Since you are making demands of the “finger pointers” : the finger pointers will start listening to Israel when it ends administrative detention. When it ends its apartheid regime. When it lifts the siege.