Occasionally, some youth reach a point where they’ve had enough of living without dignity under an inhuman siege, struggling to earn a living for themselves and their families. Perhaps the Israelis may have killed their fathers or brothers in the fields or at sea. So they’ll enrol in some brigade, shoot some homemade rocket towards Israel, just to prove how heroic it is to fight for one’s people, perhaps trying to convince themselves more than their enemy. No Western government protests strongly against the genocidal siege that Gaza is forced to endure, yet for these randomly shot ‘rockets’,
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