Israel Threatens to Kill 'Trapped' Fighters, Again
The New Arab reports Israel's threat regarding 200 alleged Hamas fighters, refusing them safe passage. This echoes Israel's 2014 'Dahiyeh doctrine' in Gaza, where entire neighborhoods were leveled, supposedly targeting 'terror infrastructure.' Funny how 'terror infrastructure' always seems to be surrounded by schools, hospitals, and refugee camps. While the IDF claims surgical strikes, the UN
documented over 2,200 Palestinian deaths in that 2014 operation, 66% of them civilians. The current framing ignores this pattern, pretending humanitarian concerns are a new inconvenience, not a systemic outcome. One might wonder: how many 'trapped fighters' stories must we hear before we acknowledge the trapped civilians—often hundreds or thousands—who always seem to be collateral in these
'precision' operations? According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, over 40,000 Palestinians, largely women and children, have been killed since October 7th. Some 'precision'.