An Israeli Missile killed A Palestinian Mother who was drinking Coffee in Her West Bank Home
Nisreen Damiri.
An IDF missile hurtled into an apartment in the densely populated Tul Karm refugee camp in the West Bank, killing Nisreen Damiri in front of her 7-year-old son, and wounding her sister-in-law. This is what happens when the Israeli army makes ‘maximum effort to avoid harming noncombatants’
The family resides in a small apartment on the second floor of a building housed by refugees in the Tul Karm camp. Though from the outside the building looks like just another refugee hovel, inside, the family home was exquisitely maintained, down to the last detail. Two small bedrooms, one for the only child, a boy, the other for his parents; crimson linens in the parents’ room, a single bed made up in the center of the boy’s room and on the wall, a painting of a guitar. Across from the bedrooms is a small dining area and a closet-sized kitchen. This refugee mini-apartment is located in the northernmost residential building in the camp.
In the Damiri family’s kitchen, the entire plaster ceiling collapsed, covering all the beautifully ordered kitchen utensils, the sink, the spices, the dishes and cutlery, the stove and the refrigerator with a layer of dust that one sees only in the aftermath of a bombing. This is what a kitchen looks like after it’s been attacked from the air. No one has dared enter the wrecked kitchen since the IDF’s smart, sophisticated, precision missile penetrated the tin ceiling above the plaster one – the ammunition that’s reserved for showboat operations and “surgical” assassinations, and which once again ended with the killing of an innocent woman.
Just like in the Gaza Strip, day after day, but on a small scale. The soldier working the joystick made a mistake. It happens. Never mind. Maybe they wanted to emulate their buddies in Gaza who kill indiscriminately as a matter of routine. Maybe they craved more action.