Posted on May 20, 2021
He told his terrified daughters not to be scared. Then an airstrike killed him
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Don’t be afraid, keep playing, it’s almost done, the Palestinian father repeats to his two girls as they scramble for cover when the Israeli war planes roar overhead.
“Daddy,” they scream, hiding their heads under cushions.
Just a few minutes before the strike, Ahmed al-Mansi, 35, films his two daughters, aged six and 12, playing with a magnetic fishing toy he had just bought them for Eid to distract them during Israel’s ferocious bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The video was posted last Wednesday on the family YouTube channel called “Sarah and Hala stars”, which over the last four months has documented the life of the girls in Gaza, including more recently the heavy airstrikes.
The channel has garnered tens of thousands of views and elevated the family to a kind of celebrity status in the Strip, with many people saying it brought them comfort.
“Daddy,” they scream, hiding their heads under cushions.
Just a few minutes before the strike, Ahmed al-Mansi, 35, films his two daughters, aged six and 12, playing with a magnetic fishing toy he had just bought them for Eid to distract them during Israel’s ferocious bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The video was posted last Wednesday on the family YouTube channel called “Sarah and Hala stars”, which over the last four months has documented the life of the girls in Gaza, including more recently the heavy airstrikes.
The channel has garnered tens of thousands of views and elevated the family to a kind of celebrity status in the Strip, with many people saying it brought them comfort.
He told his terrified daughters not to be scared. Then an airstrike killed him
Posted from independent.co.uk
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How about pressuring the Hamas leadership who started this, into stopping?
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Why do these people allow Hamas to attack Israel? If thousands of rockets were launched at a US City would we tolerate it? War is brutal and ugly. Fire Bombing of Dresden, bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nightly raids on London by the NAZIS, the Rape of Nanking. Often it is the innocent that suffer. In the battle of Stalingrad the civilian population suffered horribly. If you don’t want to suffer the bites inflicted by the dogs of war don’t release them, the dogs of war are rabid and indiscriminate in who they attack. A nice way of putting it is “collateral damage” as in when Obama used drone strikes that also killed the innocent in collateral damage.
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