Haaretz editorial: 'On Tuesday, the Israel Air Force killed nine children, between the ages of 3 and 1

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Haaretz editorial: 'On Tuesday, the Israel Air Force killed nine children, between the ages of 3 and 14. Two airstrikes, a few hours apart, hit a school in al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, that sheltered displaced Palestinians. The Israeli military said that the target was a "Hamas command and control center" and that "steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming uninvolved civilians." Whether or not such steps were taken, 32 Palestinians were killed in the strikes, including at least nine children and four women.' 'Social media was again filled with images and videos: the bodies of children; parents carrying their wounded children, others saying goodbye to their dead children. The images from which we avert our eyes, so as not to see what we have done. "They brought it upon themselves," we say to ourselves, and go on justifying a war that had long since become an unchecked fit of vengeance.' 'We can continue to ignore the number of Palestinians in the Strip who have been killed – more than 52,000, including around 18,000 children; to question the credibility of the figures, to use all of the mechanisms of repression, denial, apathy, distancing, normalization and justification. None of this will change the bitter fact: Israel killed them. Our hands did this. We must not avert our eyes. We must wake up and cry out loudly: Stop the war.' From the Comments: -'I can't look away from the death of children and, now, from their starvation. World Central Kitchen just announced it no longer has the supplies to provide meals or bake bread. What is happening to us?' -'Yes I see the death, destruction and suffering going on in Gaza and I want and pray that the citizens of Gaza want to live in peace with Israel. But this must begin with the return of all the hostages and the full surrender of Hamas. This is how this war must end and for a new beginning for the people of Gaza. It is their choice and the responsibility is on their shoulders.' -'Decades of colonization, land grabbing, apartheid, killed children, bulldozing, daily war, war crimes, torture prisons, blockade, denied self-determination, now genocide - and you speak of 'their' choice and 'responsibility'?' -'I am now 78 years old, my grandfather was a detainee in Buchenwald, my mother was already on the list for deportation; I read a lot about the time in germany and the occupied countries, all the atrocities: what I read here (since more than 15 years) reminds me of this inhuman time. Link below

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-05-07/ty-article-opinion/we-must-not-avert-our-eyes-from-images-of-dead-children-in-gaza/00000196-ac31-d1bb-a5d6-aef56adc0000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=70b196e20c

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