'Dear Girl, Get Out!': A Young Palestinian Escapes an Israeli Strike

[David__77]

Video of a child escaping a burning building after an Israeli airstrike garnered widespread attention online. We found her in a hospital in Gaza and pieced together what had happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010207629/gaza-israeli-strike-palestinian-girl-silhouette-fire.html

[claudette]

1. Simply

Attempted murder. God help them

[Goddessartist]

2. Horrible

Genocide. Bless the children 💔

[Richard D]

3. War sucks

Hopefully they won't start another one.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. That child didn't start a war...

You appear to have much more sympathy for IDF combatants than for innocent civilians.

[Richard D]

6. The IDF didn't start the war

. . . the elected government of the Gazans did. Like I said, hopefully they learned enough not to do it again.

Watch the celebrations in the street on October 7 in Gaza City as a truly innocent woman's corpse was paraded through the streets to the celebratory shouts of Allahu Akbar. All that was found of her was a fragment of her skull.

Just one inhuman atrocity amongst thousands perpetrated on that day and since.

Tell me about innocent civilians.

Israel didn't start the war, but they will win it. And they should.

[Violet_Crumble]

7. So, all was peace and love before October 7? No, it wasn't...

How can you support any group that's committing war crimes against innocent civilians? Or do atrocities against civilians only matter when the team yr not rooting for does it?

I shouldn't need to tell you about innocent civilians as you've been following this topic closely. But innocent civilians aren't just Israeli, but Palestinians. Do you know how sickening it is to see DUers rush to mourn IDF combatants* while not saying a word about any Palestinian civilians unless they came blame Hamas for it? That gives a strong impression that for some here Palestinian civilians aren't seen as human beings like Israelis are, but tools to be used when it suits the persons argument .

* A note on the meaning of combatants - when it comes to combatants, there's no such thing as 'they started it' as an argument. Combatants aren't protected the way civilians are. Here's some info...

In international armed conflicts (IAC), combatants are members of the armed forces of a party. The main feature of their status is that they have the right to directly participate in hostilities. Consequently, if they fall into enemy hands, they become prisoners of war who may not be punished for having directly participated in hostilities. In return, they may remain in captivity until the end of active hostilities. In non-international armed conflict (NIAC) the term, and therefore the status of, ‘combatant’ does not exist (see chapter relating to NIAC).

https://casebook.icrc.org/law/combatants-and-pows

You could try arguing it's not an international armed conflict, but I don't think that particular argument would hold much water.

[Richard D]

8. I'm so sorry to say it . . .

. . . but study some history. Especially what happened in 2005.

[Violet_Crumble]

10. Thanks for the suggestion..

I'd never thought of doing that before.

[Richard D]

9. But irregardless of...

... all the virtue signaling going on, I truly do hope Gaza has learned enough from their FAFO to not start another war.

[AloeVera]

4. "Why are these children less? Why can't they be like other children"?

The burned child's uncle asks..

Why?

This would not be tolerated for Israeli or American children.

It's ugly racism.

Every Israel supporter should watch this video and do some serious self-reflection.