The employee of the Belgian agency Enabel and his 7-year-old son who were killed in an Israeli bombardment of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip were staying in the house of a Hamas militant. This is what Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, the Israeli ambassador to Belgium, says. According to her, the militant was the target of the airstrike. A total of five people, including two children, were killed in the attack. Two other children were injured.
LOOK. These images, which have not yet been independently verified, reportedly show the bombed house
The Israeli ambassador was summoned yesterday by Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib (MR) and Minister of Development Cooperation Caroline Gennez (Vooruit).
After that meeting, she issued a statement expressing her regret “for every innocent civilian life lost.” “I also explained that the house the family was staying in belonged to an important Hamas militant (who belonged to the extended family of the Enabel employee). That Hamas militant was the target of the airstrike,” said Idit Rosenzweig-Abu.
6 year old niece
However, many other victims were killed in the air raid. In addition to Enabel employee Abdallah Nabhan (33) and his 7-year-old son Jamal, the man’s 65-year-old father, his 35-year-old brother and his 6-year-old niece also died. Nabhan’s wife is in a critical condition in hospital. The couple’s two other children – aged 5 years and 7 months – were slightly injured.
Abdallah was on a list of people eligible to leave Gaza, according to Gennez. That list was provided to the Israeli authorities months ago. According to Gennez, the Israeli government bears a “crushing” responsibility and the bombing of civilian infrastructure and innocent civilians goes against all international, humanitarian and war laws.
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also points the finger at the Israeli government. According to him, he is “twice to blame”. Firstly, because, according to him, a country must do everything it can to prevent aid workers from being bombed, but especially because Belgium has been asking for four months to allow all Belgian aid workers and other rights holders to leave Gaza. “Innocent people and children are killed every day. Dear Israeli Government. This has to stop. Now.”
Artificial intelligence
It remains remarkable that Israel seems willing to kill so many innocent victims in the fight against Hamas. It was previously revealed that the Israeli army uses artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly bomb targets in Gaza. It is known in advance how many civilians are expected to be killed. That is the ‘collateral damage’ score that is included in each target’s file.
Several intelligence officers admitted that in the weeks following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, they authorized killing 15 to 20 civilians in airstrikes on low-ranking Hamas militants. For high-ranking members this could amount to more than 100 citizens.
Hamas also does not spare innocents. The October 7 raid on an Israeli music festival and several border villages killed 1,170 civilians. More than 250 others were kidnapped.
Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip since then have killed 34,305 Palestinians, including many women and children, according to the most recent figures from the Ministry of Health.
Israel uses artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly bomb targets in Gaza: “They are running a mass murder factory”
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