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 him away but
could not. Then the soldier came and shot him in the back.
After being shot the boy wriggles in pain as he lies on the street just meters away from his home, Israeli soldiers standing near him ignores his expression of pain and his pleas for help. They did something more than observe, they prevented a paramedic who came there from helping the teenager who was bleeding profusely, the paramedics were threatened with lasers and flashlights. The boy bled to death. According to the paramedic, barring health practitioners from saving lives of Palestinians has become standard practice.
The entire incident was witnessed
by his mother from the terrace of her home as she could nothing. According to
the mother “the occupation denied them the right to play or study and now they
are denying my son a burial”. It is a regular policy of Israeli soldiers to
retain the body of Palestinian they kill. That’s the extent of control the dark
forces in Israel have over life and death in Palestine [1].
From 10th October 2025
when so called ceasefire was put in place, Israeli army has killed 342
Palestinians and injured 875 in Gaza [2]
Yet, neither Western media nor
the Western Government try to call out these acts of darkness for what they
are, the total violation of human rights, sovereign rights of Palestine, and
international Law.
Even after total systematic
massacre of Palestinian and almost complete destruction of any infrastructure
in Gaza, the Western media still speaks about war between Israel and Palestine,
never mentions the terror acts of Israeli forces or when they do death of children
are indicated as collateral damage. Even
assertion of certain section of Israeli citizens on right to rape Palestinian
as an army strategy of control is not stated up front at the same time Hamas
assertion of right to exist and retaliation for illegal occupation of
Palestinian land by Israel is communicated as fiendish terror acts by
Palestinians. Such clear selective bias towards Israel, which plays out as
total impunity for Israel to bomb and kill at will, is not the path to long
lasting peace.
It is high time Western media and
Western governments busy making even call for justice to Palestine on their
land a terror act, ensured darkness within Israel is given media coverage. Not
addressing reality is giving Israelis a sense of impunity and creating a
feeling everything goes as far as Palestinians are concerned.
When talking about Palestinian
School curriculum, please take a look at socialization of children within and
outside educational institutions in Israel, children believe Palestinian land
is theirs to take and they have the right to destroy Palestine and Palestinians
to create a greater Israel. It is sad that West is silent about this
fundamental truth that ensures violation of Palestine sovereignty and rights of
its citizens are sustained, nurtured and flourishes through generations.
The scale and inhumanity of
Israel’s violence on Palestine, especially Gaza has increased both in terms of the
darkness of its acts, the scale at which it is being normalised by the Israeli
forces, the Israeli government, the Israeli court (through ignoring violation and dismissing any attempt to question the
violations by Israeli forces), the Israeli society for the inhumanity towards
“others” is being integrated by children, so much so they were making videos
mocking the death and torture of Palestinians, such acts indicate a slow but
clear move to normalize violence or even rape when it comes to “Others”
especially those seen as a threat to Greater Israel.
West, what you are ignoring in
Israel and have been doing for decades, is not only going to back fire and make
the region unsafe, such discriminatory attitude towards Others by Israeli society
will lead to violence not just in the region but beyond. For the sense of
Israeli impunity will only increase in scale and depth with passage of time.
Hold Israel accountable!
Molly Charles
Reference
1. Palestinian teenager left to die: 15-year-old shot by Israeli forces
and denied help.
@aljazeeraenglish
https://youtu.be/_7o0nkZvqQE?si=qEICfXTaWUYhphue
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