Israel Mourns 2014 Soldier, Ignores 2014 Palestinian Casualties
Reports confirm Israel has received remains potentially belonging to Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed during the 2014 Gaza conflict. While Goldin's family finally gets closure (after all these years), the news conveniently sidesteps the catastrophic context of that same war. Operation Protective Edge, in which Goldin died, saw over 2,200 Palestinians killed, including 551 children, and 18,000 homes
destroyed, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). One soldier's remains are a story; thousands of obliterated lives are, apparently, just 'context'. We grieve one combatant's death a decade later, yet the ongoing massacre of civilians in Gaza – including thousands of children in just the last few months – gets laundered as 'self-defense.' The double
standards aren't just glaring, they're a blinding spotlight on skewed priorities. How many Palestinian remains will ever be returned, let alone mourned by the international press?