Israeli authorities planned to demolish the family home of a seven-year-old Palestinian Bedouin girl, who was the only person serious injured in Iran’s missile barrage on Israel last month, local media have reported.
Amina Hassouna is still hospitalised, recovering from severe injures caused by an Iranian ballistic missile that landed near her her home in the Negev village of Al-Fura on 13 April.
**As Amina lay in a hospital bed from shrapnel wounds, Israeli authorities appeared to proceed with plans to demolish her home, **only reversing course due to widespread outrage from both Israelis and Palestinians.
In recent years, Israel has demolished numerous Bedouin homes in the Negev, citing illegal construction, despite these families having lived there for generations and the near impossibility for Palestinians to obtain planning permission.
Amina’s hospitalisation also highlighted the complete absence of bomb shelters in Al-Fura with her father lamenting the lack of protection for Palestinian villagers, contrasting this with Jewish Israelis in the Negev, who almost universally have access to safe areas when projectiles fall.
The fascist Israeli government using the Bedouins only as token and only as long as it is useful for the narrative? I’m shocked. Clearly this must be a mistake as Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the most moral country with the most moral army in the world.