He was the target. Allegedly reported in Israeli media (I don't have a link), but the strike was a "surgical" (I hate the term) strike on the specific apartment he was in, not just the entire building like they so often do.
When pressed about it, Israeli propaganda will point to a joke he made on Twitter about the fake "baby in an oven" atrocity propaganda story, mark my words.
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6014/Israeli-Strike-on-Refaat-al-Areer-Apparently-Deliberate
Listen to Big Church by sunn O))) from Monoliths & Dimensions to hear Attila Csihar chant this word a bunch of times.
Now that NATO has depleted itself in Ukraine, it's a question of how much actual support can even be provided to Israel. ... We might actually see Palestine finally freed at the end of all this.
I vacillate on this point. Isn'treal, with US backing, has more than enough bombs and fuel to completely ethnically cleanse Gaza, which I believe is its primary goal. What it lacks is the ability to wage an actual war against a state like Iran. Iran is never going to start that war, and in any case, Isn'treal has nukes that it wouldn't bat an eye about using.
We call on journalists and global media agencies to intensify their presence in the Gaza Strip to witness the scale of destruction and the signs of genocide committed by the occupation army and its Nazi army against children, unarmed civilians, and all infrastructure. In this context, we extend an invitation to Elon Musk — who visited the occupation — to visit the Gaza Strip to see the scale of massacres and crimes committed against our people, and commit to standards of objectivity and credibility, and distancing from biased politics and double standards in dealing with the cause of our people and their legitimate rights.
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Critical support for this accurate analysis of material conditions that also fails the vibe check.
Fuck, that's extremely upsetting. Literally nauseating. That level of cruelty is genuinely unfathomable to me.
The Americans still have to pay for the tents themselves, and then they get harassed by the police.
To summarize Levy:
It was so close that you could hear the music from within Gaza.
This interview of Norman Finkelstein by Chris Hedges is thorough. He talks at length about grappling with the moral implications of the Al Aqsa Flood operation, including from his position as the child of two Holocaust survivors. He draws parallels with Nat Turner and John Brown and responses by William Lloyd Garrison and C. L. R. James.
Israel's long war on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report 34:48 is where they talk about the music festival in particular.
He was deliberately assassinated. This was not "collatoral damage", well, except for his brother, sister, and the four children.