Yesterday, Israel bombed and killed five individuals in Beirut and injured 28 individuals, Israel justified it as targeted killing, as it killed Hezbollah leader. Israel called it a Precision strike. Interestingly, DW news calls the bombing and killing of Lebanese in South Lebanon as “Israel has carried out a strike in Lebanon”. This is one small instance on how Western media facilitates Genocidal Impunity of Israel and Israelis. A strike as per dictionary means “hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement. Yes, strike is used as military term when there is a war, and it means a sudden attack typically a military one. But Israel has a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah and Lebanon since November 2024. There is no war happening between Israel and Lebanon. But the West and UN seemed to have sanctioned Israel the Genocidal state the right to kill all members of any resistance of armed group it disagrees with in the region. It seems all this is pa...
Why are dark acts of Israeli forces never given adequate attention in Western media. Unless awareness is created about the same, the so-called Gaza Plan and Board of Peace would be only ways to disempower Palestinians not just as citizens but also as human beings in their own land. Be it children being sniped or Palestinians being abused, raped and tortured all are given a stiff upper lip treatment, even by the French who rarely believe in such an approach to life. A recent incident that happened as the so-called “daily-bomb- interrupted-ceasefire” plays out in Gaza, with Israelis busy carrying out raids in occupied Palestine. One of the incidents of Israeli democratic acts captured on video, happened in Far’a refugee camp, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy Jaja Dullah was shot at the back by Israeli forces. His friend Yemen was the boy, said they were playing on PlayStation when they saw the soldiers they ran away, but his friend tripped and fell. The other boys tried to pull hi...