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📹 What happened on that beach in Gaza
A Palestinian teenager stood on the shores of Gaza this morning. It was actually peaceful as he filmed a video of his friend, surrounded by hundreds of displaced families living in tents there on the beach.
He was live-streaming.
Not even throwing rocks.
Not armed.
Not doing anything but happily filming his friend.
And in the middle of his joy — without warning — an Israeli sniper shot him in the head.
You hear it. You see it.
He collapses.
The camera drops.
And right in front of the world a highly trained Israeli sniper just shot and killed a Palestinian kid for no reason!
💢 And I have one question for the world:
If an unarmed Jewish or Israeli teenager was shot in the head by a sniper on a beach anywhere in the world… would it be headline news?
You already know the answer.
It would lead every news broadcast.
The United Nations would be in emergency session.
U.S. politicians would be falling over themselves to condemn it.
The shooter would be called a terrorist.
There would be sanctions. Retaliation. Repercussions.
But when it’s a Palestinian child?
Live-streaming?
Peaceful?
Smiling?
Silence.
🔴 What international law says — and how it’s being ignored
The Geneva Conventions prohibit the targeting of civilians — especially children — under any circumstance.
Protocol I of the conventions bans attacks on areas populated by displaced people, like refugee camps or tent cities.
Targeted assassinations — especially of unarmed individuals — are war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
And yet Israel does it.
In broad daylight.
On video.
With U.S. bullets.
And no one is held accountable.
😡 I am angry. You should be too.
This teenager wasn’t just killed.
He was executed — in front of the world — and the world barely blinked.
He was live-streaming.
And instead of his joy going viral, his death is being buried.
What kind of moral universe are we in where this is allowed?
What kind of media ecosystem refuses to name this for what it is?
This isn’t security.
It’s not defense.
It’s sniper terrorism — and it’s being funded, protected, and normalized by global silence.
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Don’t let this child be erased.
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Tell the truth.
This was a war crime.
It was murder.
And the world needs to reckon with it.
With fire, truth, and pain,
Shaun
