US-Israeli Missile Strikes West Bank Salon, Killing Three Women
Three Palestinian women were killed in an occupied West Bank hair salon this week, targeted by what Israeli military sources, amplified by outlets like Al Jazeera, are reporting as a missile strike connected to the ongoing US-Israeli joint military operation against Iran. The victims, identified as Samar Abu El-Niel, Huda Abdel-Aziz, and Mona Ghazi, mark the first documented Palestinian deaths
directly linked to this expanding regional conflict. This incident did not occur in some far-off theater of war but in a civilian establishment within the already beleaguered West Bank. What mainstream coverage, even from more critical sources like Al Jazeera in this instance, persistently frames is a kind of compartmentalization. The US-Israeli war on Iran is presented as a distinct, strategic
endeavor, separate from the daily violence inflicted upon Palestinians. This framing suggests that the killing of these three women is a regrettable but isolated consequence, rather than an inherent outcome of policies that routinely disregard Palestinian life. The United States has provided Israel with over $200 billion in military aid since 1948, funding the very weapons systems used in such
strikes, while simultaneously condemning any Palestinian response as 'terrorism.' This double standard is not an oversight; it is policy. Such events are not new. For instance, the infamous USS Liberty attack in 1967 saw Israeli forces deliberately target a US intelligence ship, killing 34 American servicemen, in an effort to prevent reports of Israeli war crimes during the Six-Day War. The US