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Gaza, the twilight zone where Israeli morality meets Palestinian tragedy
Footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers shooting dead two Palestinian men who are walking along the coast towards northern Gaza. The two – who had white pieces of cloth raised – were then buried by an Israeli bulldozer.
In response to the footage, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has described Gaza as a twilight zone, where Israel’s fantasy of morality and righteousness intersects with Palestinian tragedy and genocide.
Gaza shooting video shows ‘flagrant disregard for Palestinian life’
Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director with Human Rights Watch, has called the video showing the killing of the unarmed Palestinians in Gaza “shocking”.
“We see this disregard for Palestinian life which is flagrant by the Israeli government,” he told Al Jazeera, also noting that Israel “continues to not only block Palestinians to return to their homes that they were expelled from in 1948 inside Israel proper, but even to return to their homes within Gaza that they’ve been forced to flee in recent months”.
Shakir said Human Rights Watch has documented “numerous times over the years the Israeli government gunning down people waving white flags”, including in a 2009 report on the killing of 11 Palestinian civilians.
“Of course, there was impunity for these acts. There were statements that they would be investigated but no one was held into account,” he added.
