The amazing Palestinian civilian death toll has a new angle: The 65-year-old farmer who keeps getting shot and killed by IDF soldiers.
Today’s 65-year-old casualty:
Palestinian medical officials says Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian farmer in the southern Gaza Strip.
They say the shooting occurred after militants attacked Israeli army vehicles in the area.
Palestinian militants say they fired mortars at the Israeli vehicles. The Israeli army isn’t commenting, but medical officials say the attack prompted the Israeli forces to fire back. They say the dead man was a 65-year-old farmer who was on his land at the time.
The shooting occurred near Kissufim, an Israeli crossing into the Gaza Strip.
The dead 65-year-old-farmer from four days ago:
Palestinian sources in Gaza reported on Thursday morning that IDF troops shot dead a 65-year-old Palestinian farmer near the security fence along the border with Israel.
The army denied soldiers had opened fire in the region but said it was still looking into the claim. The farmer is said to have been riding his donkey to tend to his fields, located east of the town of Khan Younis.
Funny how this seems to happen a lot. It’s not even fauxtography—it’s the process of uncritically passing along information from Palestinian “medics” and “witnesses,” while always downplaying any Israeli sources, or using them as denying the incident occurred. In journo-speak, a denial is a confirmation.
Any way you look at it, Israel loses.
For a place where people don’t seem to live beyond age 35 without being shot or blowing themselves up, they’ve got an awful lot of 65-year-old farmers riding donkeys through war zones.
I am waiting for the Pals to declare that their population is now 7.5 million and growing. And of course, they need international funds for each and every one of them, or watch out!