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This is the 24th year that the United Nations has released this report on grave violations against children.

The report, released annually, looks at the number of children globally who have been killed, maimed or recruited into armed conflict, among other things. The report only documents cases that the UN has been able to independently verify.

Now, despite ample evidence that Israel should have been included on this list for many years, it wasn’t – as the UN bowed to Israeli pressure not to be named in the report.

But that all changed last year when Israel was included for the first time. And now this year, marking two years in a row that Israel is named and shamed.

In the annexe of the report looking at 2024, it says Israeli forces remained on the list because they fulfilled the criteria of a “party that kills and maims children” and “a party that engages in attacks on schools and/or hospitals”.

Globally, the UN was able to verify 41,370 grave violations against children in 2024.

Roughly 20 percent of the total – more than 8,000 – were committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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The High Court of Justice has postponed and canceled hearings on petitions dealing with the rights of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the legality of Israeli warfare there, on the grounds of the state of emergency that was declared due to the war with Iran.

In this context, Justice Minister Yariv Levin placed the country's courts on emergency footing, instructing them to only handle urgent matters, such as hearings on criminal offenses related to the state of emergency and urgent petitions to the Supreme Court. It also includes detention hearings, including those on so-called administrative detention — detention without trials.

Human rights organizations warn that, in the wake of Levin's directive and under the cover of the war, Israel is continuing to violate international law in Gaza while precluding legal recourse.

This situation adds to the conduct of the Supreme Court since the beginning of the war in Gaza; as recently reported in Haaretz, it has validated most of Israel's actions in Gaza.

On Tuesday, a hearing was scheduled on a petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, demanding that Palestinian security prisoners held in Israel be provided with adequate food. Many of these prisoners were detained during the war in Gaza. As early as April 2024, a petition was submitted concerning their feeding.

In December, the court issued a show-cause order to the state, instructing it to explain why it was not providing sufficient food to prisoners to meet their basic living standards. The court was presented with information indicating a significant decrease in the body weight of security prisoners and detainees.

The petition argued that a food reduction policy was in place that amounts to starvation and detention under torture-like conditions and violates Israeli and international law. In response, the state argued that the menu provided to security prisoners is based on professional standards and complies with the law.

On Sunday afternoon, the right-wing Movement for Governability and Democracy issued a statement condemning the slated hearing on the petition. "The High Court will deliberate on the incarceration conditions and diet of the members of the Nukhba unit (elite Hamas unit of whom many of the members participated in the October 7 attack)," they wrote.

"We checked again and again, and perhaps the Supreme Court will finally act responsibly in the war and the extreme emergency situation, but unfortunately, not, as of now, there is no change." A few hours later, the court announced the cancellation of the hearing; it has not yet been rescheduled.

ACRI legal adviser Oded Feller, who represents the organization in the petition, says they waited a long time for the hearing. According to him, since the start of the war in Gaza, there have been repeated reports of severe incidents in Israeli facilities, including torture, violence, humiliation and even preventable deaths. He adds that ACRI has evidence of the starvation of thousands of security prisoners and drastic weight loss.

"There has never been a decision by the security cabinet to act this way, and the reason is solely [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir's Kahanist obsession," he says.

Feller adds that the outgoing Shin Bet security service chief, Ronen Bar, also warned that the conduct in the prisons could be considered a crime under international law and a violation of the anti-torture convention. "He emphasized that there is no benefit to Ben-Gvir's actions, which the Israel Prison Service cooperates with, only drawbacks."

In a related matter, on Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Yosef Elron extended the state's deadline for responding to petitions concerning humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The petitions, filed by four human rights organizations, demand that Israel take effective measures to ensure humanitarian aid to the Palestinian population.

Elron's decision followed a request from the State Prosecutor's Office that, he said, cited the war with Iran and the state of emergency.

ACRI, Gisha, HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel say the hearing and granting of the petition are urgent. The petition notes that dozens of Gazans have been killed and hundreds injured recently while trying to obtain food at aid distribution sites and states that all residents of the Gaza Strip are at risk of starvation.

In a rare move, in May, Elron instructed the state to indicate in its response to the petition if the "factual situation" in Gaza had changed so as to justify its denial. The petitioners argue, however, that "even if certain details change, the situation on the ground indicates a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip due to Israel's policies, and the state, with the help of the Supreme Court, is evading the responsibility dictated by this."

According to the petition, "Thousands of children in the [Gaza] Strip suffer from severe malnutrition and the number of deaths resulting from this has recently increased." It further argues that "the vast majority of residents suffer from a lack of food and water and are struggling to survive" and that "the collapsing health care system is unable to attend to the hungry, the sick, the injured, children, pregnant women and new mothers."

Osnat Cohen-Lifshitz, the director of Gisha's legal department, says that particularly in wartime, "Ordinary people need the protection of the court against the state's monstrous power." She adds that "The courts, which even in peacetime are forgiving of the injustices committed by the state, as if they were the innocent pranks of kindergartners, find it appropriate to protect the state and not those who are harmed by its excessive power." She calls on "the courts to fulfill their role, to examine and critique the state's conduct tirelessly even now and compel it to comply with the rules of international and Israeli law."

Also delayed by the emergency-footing order is a petition from three reservists: Or Szneiberg and Avshalom Zohar Sal, who are serving in Gaza, and Aviad Houminer-Rosenblum, who is serving on the northern border. They are asking the Supreme Court to issue an order instructing Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to cancel the determination that "concentration and movement of the population" in Gaza is one of the objectives of the operation.

In the petition, submitted through lawyers Michael Sfard, Einat Gayer and Snir Klein, they argue at length that this is an improper goal that explicitly contradicts international law. The petition was filed on May 29, and though three weeks have passed, no hearing has been scheduled yet, and the court has not instructed the defense minister and the IDF chief to respond to it.

An urgent motion filed this week by Sfard on behalf of the petitioners requests an urgent hearing and a directive ordering the state to submit a preliminary response. Sfard emphasizes in the motion that the petitioners are currently in reserve duty and fear the operation in which they are participating is based on a manifestly illegal order.

"To the best of the petitioners' knowledge, at this moment, and with even greater intensity under the cover of the war in Iran, the Gazan population is being forcibly transferred to the southern [Gaza] Strip without any intention of allowing their return and with the aim of removing them to third countries," Sfard writes. "If this is indeed the case, it constitutes egregious violations of international law and the commission of serious criminal offenses."

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday condemned "Israel's" military strikes against Iran, warning the United States and European powers against "fanning up the flames of war," according to a Foreign ministry spokesperson.

President Donald Trump has fuelled speculation about the US joining its key ally "Israel" in military action against Iran, saying Wednesday that his patience had "run out" with Tehran, but that it was still not too late for talks.

He later said he had not yet made a decision on whether to join "Israel" in bombing Iran and warned that the country's current leadership could fall as a result of the war.

Related: ‘Over 80 Palestinians Reportedly Killed Thursday by Israeli Fire in Gaza as Global Focus Remains on Iran War’

Egypt's role in the ongoing devastation of Gaza has come under scrutiny as hundreds of pro-Palestine activists attempting to join the Global March to Gaza have been detained, interrogated or deported. Thousands of people worldwide aimed to join the Al-Somoud convoy driving from Tunis to the Egyptian border at Rafah to deliver aid in a challenge to the Israeli siege on Gaza. Activists report that Egyptian authorities confiscated their passports and blocked people from moving beyond checkpoints near Cairo. People also claimed Egypt forced them onto aeroplanes against their will.

While Egypt publicly criticises Israel's actions in Gaza, its security forces have cracked down on activism, arresting at least 180 people since October 2023. Authorities justified the most recent clampdown by citing visa violations and national security concerns. Despite the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed 274 people and wounded more than 2,000 since Israel forcefully took control of aid deliveries in May, Cairo's policies appear more aligned with Israeli security interests than with the cries for Palestinian relief.

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Israeli fire killed at least 50 people on Monday, nearly half of them near an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the territory's Health Ministry said, as U.N. officials denounced Israeli-backed aid delivery methods.

Medics said at least 23 of those people were killed and 200 others wounded near an aid distribution site in Rafah, the latest in daily mass shootings that have killed hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach food since Israel imposed a new distribution system after partly lifting a near three-month total blockade.

As on previous days, witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire in an attempt to control crowds.

The ministry says several hundred people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in such shootings since the centers, run by the private contractor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, opened three weeks ago.

There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military. In previous instances, the military has said that troops fired warning shots at what it calls suspects approaching their positions.

Gaza's Health Ministry said 33 Palestinians were killed trying to reach the GHF center near the southern city of Rafah and another on route to a GHF hub in central Gaza. It said four other people were killed elsewhere.

Witnesses describe crowds under fire

Israeli troops started firing as thousands of Palestinians massed around 4 A.M. at the Flag Roundabout before the scheduled opening time of the Rafah food center, according to Heba Jouda and Mohamed Abed, two Palestinians who were in the crowd.

People fell to the ground, trying to take cover, they said. "Fire was coming from everywhere," said Jouda, who has repeatedly made the journey to get food for her family over the past week. "It's getting worse day by day," she said.

The Red Cross field hospital nearby received some 200 wounded Monday, the highest single mass casualty event, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement.

Only a day earlier, it said, around 170 were brought to the facility, most of them wounded by gunshots while trying to reach the GHF center. The Health Ministry toll made it the deadliest day around the food sites since June 2, when 31 people were killed.

The Flag Roundabout, hundreds of meters from the GHF center, has been a repeated scene of shootings. It is on the route designated by the Israeli military for people to take to reach the center.

Palestinians over the past weeks have said Israeli troops open fire to prevent people from moving past a certain point on the road before the scheduled opening of the center or because people leave the road.

A GHF spokesperson told The Associated Press on Sunday that "none of the incidents to date have occurred at our sites or during operating hours." It said the incidents have involved aid-seekers who were moving "during prohibited times […] or trying to take a short cut."

It said it was trying to improve safety measures, including by recently moving the opening times from nighttime to daylight hours.

A new aid distribution system

Israel and the United States say the new GHF system is needed to prevent Hamas from siphoning off aid. GHF says there has been no violence in or around the sites themselves.

I will be brief and to the point: Iran's withering attacks against Israel, the destroyed facilities, the hysterical shrieking of Tel Aviv settlers, generate vengeful pleasure, and vindicate millions of people.

By Alejandro Kirk, HispanTV Senior Correspondent

For example, for those of us who have been subjected for weeks and months to the constant surveillance of Israeli drones - buzzing invisibly day and night in the sky - absolutely defenseless, knowing that at any moment a missile can - and does - fall on your head, destroy a building, or an entire neighborhood, anywhere and for no reason at all.

For example, for those of us who have witnessed first-hand the total destruction of civilian homes, the pieces of human beings scattered in the rubble left by a Zionist missile, along with their belongings: toys bathed in blood, notebooks, computers, shoes, furniture, clothes, cosmetics, blankets, blankets, the remains of lives punished just for existing.

And the best example, what the martyred inhabitants of Gaza and the West Bank may feel, in the midst of the genocide, victims of the plan of “final solution” of the “Palestinian problem” by Zionist fascism.

It is difficult to describe the pleasure of seeing the hand of the sadistic and cowardly Israeli military spokesman, Avichai Adraee, shaking uncontrollably moments after the first Iranian retaliation against the Israeli aggression of June 13. The same one who the day before had proclaimed to represent an “invincible nation”.

Why does it give pleasure? Because Adraee was the one who kept the Lebanese population on tenterhooks, day after day, announcing attacks in residential areas. Attacks that sometimes did not take place, and he mocked the families who fled aimlessly with their clothes on their backs. And he also mocked the refugees, and the people who had been killed.

He wanted to maintain that arrogance, but his right hand betrayed him, shaking like a leaf as he tried once again to portray the Zionist entity as a victim of the ruthless Muslims.

The so-called Zionist colonial “Defense Force” itself began to complain about how callous Iranian commanders are, attacking civilian or residential facilities. The same ones who since October 2023 have been systematically murdering, in a planned manner, at least 60,000 Palestinian civilians, a third of them children, in Gaza.

And why is there pleasure in the hysterical shrieking in Tel Aviv? Because, according to polls, about 95 percent of the colonial population supports genocide and ethnic cleansing, and because of them, about 60 percent find that Israel has been “weak” in perpetrating its crimes.

Because it is ordinary Israelis who distribute videos and memes mocking the murdered children. Because they are the ones who go to a hillside near Gaza to watch and applaud the massacre live and direct, and celebrate the looting and humiliation their soldiers commit against an unarmed people.

The self-styled “chosen people” are drinking their own medicine, no more and no less, and the delirious leader Benjamin Netanyahu (the Polish Mileikowsky) is desperately begging the United States and NATO to go to direct war with Iran, because the indirect war is not enough. Because all the military, financial and political assistance provided to him, without which his power becomes zero, is not enough. Because the intelligence from satellites and spy planes and missiles from the ships of their patrons are not enough to defeat the Islamic Republic of Iran.

On June 13, through saboteurs, Israel succeeded in dismantling Iran's anti-aircraft defenses in the western part of the country, in dealing crushing blows, assassinating military and scientific leaders, and after that coup it immediately proclaimed itself the absolute victor.

Underestimating with mocking and racist phrases the adversary that is emerging as his gravedigger.

Two days later, the hell that Iran promised began, and that was not empty bravado. The commonplace says that wars are known how they begin, but not how they end, and this one got out of hand to the Zionist aggressor.

The world will undoubtedly be a better place without Israel and without racist and criminal Zionism.

Cross-posted from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8217946

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8216614

Moments before the attack, Emami was saying: “Listen, what you hear is the sound of the aggressor. You hear the sound of the aggressor attacking the truth.”

Jabari said these are going to be “extraordinary scenes”. “This TV channel is the most watched inside the country because foreign channels are banned inside Iran,” Jabari said. “So people use satellite dishes to access foreign media and channels and it’s very difficult most of the time, so this is the most accessible to the general public.”

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, who said that “the mouthpiece of Iranian propaganda and incitement is on the verge of disappearing. The evacuation of nearby residents has begun”.

I feel sick

The finger-pointing is starting to heat up.

OF COURSE, this is just a scenario of a couple "far-right" bad apples. It has nothing to do with the nature of the alien settler colonial project, or the extreme violence it has inflicted on all of the people in the region.

Now it's time the "responsible" "left" (gag) opposition party take control and steer the ship back on course. No more malarky, folks. Foreign policy stays the same, of course. Nothing will fundamentally change. BTW KHKHKamas and Iran are still evil and we don't even know why. We're the only place on earth that has human rights, after all.

Big Isreal and Little Isreal.

The Israeli army is continuing to scale back its troop presence in the Gaza Strip in order to reinforce Israel's northern and eastern borders, amid concerns over possible infiltration attempts by militias from Jordan and Syria, as well as the potential entry of Hezbollah into the fighting, Israeli defense officials have told Haaretz.

According to the officials, the decision to redeploy forces stems from concern that Iran's regional proxies may assist it in the conflict. The immediate goal, they said, is to thwart any attempts at raids on Israeli communities or military infrastructure near the border fence.

The IDF said on Saturday that Iran has become Israel's primary warfront, with Gaza now secondary. On Sunday, the military added that Iran's difficulty in recovering from the surprise opening airstrike by the Israeli Air Force has led it to call for help from the armed militias it has cultivated over the years in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

Israel's defense establishment is closely monitoring developments involving these militias. So far, Hezbollah has limited itself to public expressions of support for the Islamic Republic, and Israeli intelligence has not yet detected any operational activity indicating the group is preparing to join the war.

By contrast, militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen are a growing source of concern. The IDF is preparing for possible infiltration attempts into Israeli territory or attacks on military forces and border communities.

The IDF confirmed on Sunday that overnight it had attempted to assassinate the Houthi military chief, Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari. Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency claimed al-Ghamari survived the strike. However, the IDF said it is still awaiting confirmation of the operation's outcome.

The Houthis have vowed to respond to the assassination attempt and called on other militias to prepare for what they referred to as a "march" to Israel.

In light of these developments, the IDF has reinforced troops in communities along the borders with Jordan and Syria to prevent infiltration attempts. To facilitate this, troop numbers in Gaza are being reduced. Within days, fewer than half the number of soldiers stationed in Gaza prior to the opening of hostilities with Iran are expected to remain.

CAIRO, June 15 (Reuters) - Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Medics at Al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor. Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah in the south.

An airstrike killed seven other people in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave, medics said. In Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed at least 11 people in a house. The rest were killed in separate airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip, they added.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May after Israel partially lifted a near three-month total blockade. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in near-daily mass shootings trying to reach the food.

The GHF said in a statement that it resumed food deliveries on Sunday, distributing more than two million meals from its three distribution sites without incident.

The United Nations rejects the new Israeli-backed distribution system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality principles.

Mattan here. I am the executive director of Refuser Solidarity Network and I am a refuser who spent 110 days in prison because I refused to take part in the occupation. Refuser Solidarity Network is a network–and that means that you are part of it. Our model is decentralized. We provide spontaneous refusers with the tools they need to get organized to become a political force.

This work, of offering support, tools and amplification is at the core of our work, and it's also how you, our supporters around the globe, can support the Israeli resistance and end the occupation. We rely on you to bring refusers' stories and message to the world, to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza.

When I was imprisoned for 110 days, I relied on supporters from far and wide, across the world, to make my refusal meaningful on an international scale. I hoped that my sacrifice and imprisonment would reveal the criminal Israeli state's contradictions, and while I was behind bars, I relied on global supporters to carry my message forward.

Today, as Executive Director of RSN, I continue to rely on global solidarity so that we can continue to carry out our work. We need you to help us reach our mid-year goal of $30,000 so that we can continue to expand the growing refuser wave currently taking place. If you have already donated, share our campaign with your communities.

Why is amplification so important? When I was 16, I decided to refuse to serve in the army because of the […] occupation. It was not out of a drive for moral purity, but rather to declare that this must end, and use my refusal to spread this message and confront others. Refusing is not only a personal act of conscience, but above all a political act to mobilise people against the occupation.

Being imprisoned, sacrificing my freedom, social status and facing consequences for my choice put me in a position to create an impact. People are often puzzled at first. "Why doesn't he serve like everyone else? Why does he prefer to be in prison rather than be in the army? What is the army doing that is so bad?" They are confronted with the injustice and the oppression, and can not ignore it. They must take a stand, an action.

It's true both in Israel and on an international scale. Our actions open up new possibilities, people become open to new perspectives, our voice creates an impact and mobilises people as part of a wider movement. That is why the act of refusal is so powerful, it is powerful as long as our voice has been amplified. That is why we are focusing on refusers' voices at RSN, and it's just as important that you do too. This is why we need you, and all our supporters to help us to amplify their voices.

This is how we build power across borders. This is how we grow a refusal movement that can take on a genocidal war machine and win. Right now, we are seeing a sharp rise in interest and resistance. Soldiers are breaking ranks. Protesters are flooding the streets. More and more people are starting to ask: What can I do? If you've been wondering the same thing, we are calling on you to join us.

Just last month, the Israeli authorities imprisoned the first reservist refuser in recent memory. The cracks are emerging, and the war effort is unraveling. Now more than ever, we are counting on you to help us reach our mid-year goal of $30,000 so that we can carry on our work in getting refusers organized and amplifying their actions. Just like I counted on you when I was imprisoned 10 years ago, I am turning to you today.

In solidarity,

Mattan Helman
Executive Director
Refuser Solidarity Network

(Taken from an email sent to me by Refuser Solidarity Network. Emphasis original.)

The Israeli military has cut off the Gaza Strip from the internet by bombing the last remaining main fibre-optic route, as troops continue to kill dozens of Palestinian aid seekers on a daily basis.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, at least 21 people were killed and 294 others wounded on Thursday morning while attempting to reach a food distribution centre operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The incident follows a similar one on Wednesday, when Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians as they approached a GHF point near Netzarim in central Gaza.

According to official figures, at least 245 Palestinians have been killed near aid distribution sites since the new Israel-US aid coordination mechanism was implemented more than two weeks ago.

The emergency department at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City said it had admitted dozens of people in recent days who had been killed or wounded while waiting for aid.

"Many Gazans went to the Nabulsi and Netzarim areas to receive aid and were shot at and shelled with tanks," said Mutaz Harara, the head of Al-Shifa's emergency department.

"Many patients died while waiting for their turn."

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said that a complete blackout of internet and landline services hit Gaza on Thursday after Israeli forces targeted the last remaining main fibre-optic route.

"Digital isolation is intensifying due to the systematic targeting of infrastructure, despite repeated attempts to repair severed and alternative routes," the authority said.

"The southern and central areas of Gaza have now joined the state of digital isolation already affecting Gaza City and the northern Strip for the second consecutive day."

The authority warned that the blackout will isolate Gaza from the outside world and hinder humanitarian, health, media and educational services.

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As the afternoon drew to a close, more and more Blackshirts and [other Fascists] appeared on the streets. All postal and telephonic communications in and out of Ethiopia had been suspended,²⁶ a measure designed to put an information blackout over the terror that was about to be unleashed. The result was that the European news agencies were for some time starved of information, and many of their early reports were speculative.

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The man was seen in IDF drone footage from Khan Yunis walking with a limp before being struck by munitions launched from either a drone or a loitering munition.

The IDF confirmed the strike, stating that the man had been “identified as a terrorist observing troops and moving between buildings used for terrorist activity.”

On May 30, […] journalist and pundit Amit Segal published the video on his Telegram channel. The footage, filmed by an IDF drone, showed a figure walking with difficulty before being hit.

Segal did not identify the person or provide context for the killing, but the video gained widespread attention online. Thousands of Israeli users reacted with Israeli flags or “likes.”

An investigation by Haaretz revealed that the man killed was Muhammad al-Farra, an older civilian with cerebral palsy resulting from a childhood car accident. He walked with a limp and had special needs. His sister, Heba al-Farra, who survived the strike, identified him in the video.

Heba is a well-known social media figure in Gaza, where she runs a TikTok channel with over 812,000 followers, mostly focused on food. Throughout the war, she has continued to post cooking videos despite severe shortages.

Seven members of the al-Farra family — including Muhammad’s father and four sisters — were killed earlier in the war. Muhammad was killed while walking to his home in the Satar neighborhood of Khan Yunis on the same day the video was published.

The IDF had ordered the neighborhood evacuated, and much of it had been destroyed by airstrikes. However, many residents, including Muhammad, apparently remained. According to the family, the military did not allow them to retrieve his body for several hours.

“Segal shared the video with the caption ‘Gaza.’ It didn’t matter who the person was — only that he was from Gaza and the people who killed him were Israeli,” wrote Gazan journalist Mosab Abu Toha, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in The New Yorker.

“There’s no further detail because our lives in Gaza don’t matter. I look at that footage — the way this man walked shows he was starving for days. Why the hell would you kill him with a missile? A missile, for one man? Why kill him at all?”

In response, the IDF stated: “At the end of May, the IDF conducted a precision strike against a suspect identified as a terrorist observing our forces and moving between buildings used for terrorist activity. This was a zone of intense fighting, declared a combat area and evacuated of civilians. The IDF operates to minimize harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure in accordance with the laws of war and makes significant efforts to take precautions prior to attacks.”