Innocent Victims
Innocent Victims
The title is a tautology: there are only innocent victims of terrorism. If it takes deaths like these to prove that, then shame on us.
Two Israelis were killed when a fallen Kassam rocket exploded near a group of Beduin shepherds in an open area between Kibbutz Nahal Oz and the Karni crossing late Tuesday morning.
The victims were Salaam Ziadin and his 16-year-old son Khalid, of the al-Azazneh clan.
The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, Israel Radio reported.
Two other people on the scene - including one of the boy’s sisters - were taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and were being treated for shock.
A few hours later, three Beduin youths were wounded in an explosion in an IDF firing zone near the Beit Kama junction in the Negev.
A helicopter evacuated a 12-year-old boy who was critically wounded in the explosion. He died on the way to the hospital.
Another teen was evacuated in serious condition, but succumbed to his wounds in the hospital. The third teen was in serious condition at Soroka.
The army reported that the boys had picked up an unexploded bomb or shell and were playing with it.
An entire family destroyed. Jewish, Bedouin, whatever–it’s a despicable tragedy.