Footage from a Gaza hospital shows a child standing in a doorway where his family had been sheltering. A shot tears into him, his tiny heart exploded and he drops instantly. There is nothing ambiguous about it. No crossfire. No confusion. Just a child targeted and killed. When his relatives return from burying him, carrying an empty stretcher and a white flag, they are shot too. Even grief isn’t allowed to exist. Even surrender isn’t enough to be spared.
This isn’t defense. It’s a system that has learned it can take Palestinian lives without consequence. A little boy is killed, and instead of restraint, the shooters return to attack the people who dared to mourn him. It’s cruelty stacked on cruelty, carried out with full awareness and full intent.
There is no justification for shooting a family carrying a white flag. There is no moral universe where killing the people who just buried a child can be excused. These are innocent lives, erased in plain sight, and it is still happening every single day in Gaza.
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