On this day 24 years ago, the world watched, helplessly, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach, whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
When ISIS hacked to pieces ancient Assyrian statues, the world rightly condemned them.
When the Taliban blew up the ancient Buddha statues in Bamyan, the world condemned it.
Israel just blew up the 700-year-old Grand Mosque in Gaza, equating itself with ISIS and the Taliban.
Rafah, now. Israeli occupation forces bombed the United Nations tent camp in Rafah. Since it was declared a safe zone, thousands of Palestinian families were settled here. Now there is a massacre.
Israel commits a massacre in #Rafah this evening, dropping several 2,000 pound bombs on civilian tents and #UN compounds, murdering dozens of civilians seeking shelter. This was Israel’s response to the @CIJ_ICJ ruling Friday that it must halt its offensive on Rafah.
Israel likes to kill us and you like to watch.
You like to watch and even enjoy it because the whole world didn’t stop it from happening even if it’s been happening for more than 170 days .
Graphic scenes: An Israeli army drone pursued four civilian youths who attempted to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles in Khan Younis at the start of last February.