• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    AL-MAZRA’A AL-SHARQIYA, West Bank — Tawfic Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, 17, was born and raised in Louisiana, in a city called Gretna across the Mississippi River from New Orleans and surrounded by the delta’s swampland and bayous.

    It’s a long way from the mountains of the occupied West Bank, but when Tawfic arrived in May, he was excited to properly explore the landscape of the village where his dad grew up, and to learn more about his roots as a Palestinian American.

    But he says the Biden administration’s support of Israel, including with weapons, and what he sees as a tepid response from the White House to Tawfic’s death make him doubt that his government will act in his son’s interest.

    The incident comes as human rights groups have documented a rise in settler violence in the occupied West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began.

    Since Oct. 7, at the start of the war in Gaza, 344 Palestinians, including 88 children, have been killed by security forces and settlers across the West Bank, according to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

    Since the start of the war, President Joe Biden has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza, but the death toll has continued to skyrocket in the months since.


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  • RedFox@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    I can’t imagine the pain and bottomless hatred I’d have if my son was killed in a war, but the name thing keeps me from wanting him to travel anywhere that might be a war zone.

    Well, anymore than random places in the US already is…

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      10 months ago

      West Bank isn’t even a war zone. This appears to have been just a regular incident of a settler deciding to murder a Palestinian and the IDF helping out.

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    10 months ago

    Surely the Biden administration will take issue to the senseless murder of an American citizen, right?

    Edit: I guess they didn’t even take that much issue to India assassination a US national on US soil (or a Canadian national on Canadian soil). Hmm.