Israeli leaders are forced to balance calls for “lethal” military bravura, essential for garnering Zionist Jewish support internally, with maintaining its image abroad.
New video footage released by B’Tselem of the moment that Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian family’s car, killing their 11-year-old son, contradicts the army’s accounts of the events.
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammed al-Alami in his father’s car, as the family were on their way home from grocery shopping. The next day at Mohammed’s funeral, Israeli soldiers attacked the procession, killing 20-year-old Shawkat Awad. “They killed my boy, and then they wouldn’t even let me bury him,” Moayyad al-Alami tells Mondoweiss. “That is my most basic right as a father, and they took that from me too.”