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CNN reports: An American died in the West Bank on Saturday, the US State Department confirmed Monday, the second death in less than a month of a US citizen in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“We can confirm the death of a U.S. citizen civilian in the West Bank on February 10, 2024,” a State Department spokesperson told CNN, adding that department officials “are working to gather more information and have pressed the Government of Israel for further information.”

“We extend our deepest condolences to the family,” the spokesperson said. “Out of respect to the family, we have nothing further to share.”

Last month, another American, 17-year-old Tawfiq Hafiz Ajjaq, was fatally shot in the head, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israel’s police have opened an investigation into the incident, the IDF and Israeli police told CNN last month.

Defense for Children International – Palestine adds: Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, 17, was shot in the head by Israeli forces around 4:30 p.m. on February 10 west of the Palestinian town of Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine.

read more: https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-killed-2nd-american-citizen-west-bank-under-month-day-130/

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Biden isn't a lesser evil! He's a different evil, a more reasonable evil that follows norms and rules, but he's still a génocidair that is responsible for a lifetime of evil and actually kept most of Trump's worst policies on the border and around the world. You can argue Biden is better for Americans in particular, but I'm not interested in supporting genocide elsewhere to save myself.

You're just supporting polite fascism to stop vulgar fascism. America is a fascist country that must be stopped. No more evil.

[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

Except the kinds of genocide that will happen under Trump will, by any shred of evidence that anyone has ever seen, be far more frequent and more aggressive than the ones that happen under Biden. It's not just about Biden being the less bad choice for Americans, he is also the less bad choice for the world.

Trump has literally said that he will break treaties by not supporting from NATO allies who "haven't paid" if Russia attacks them. He would certainly pull support from Ukraine if elected, which will effectively be a genocide of the Ukrainian people. When he was president he practically initiated a war with Iran, and it was only prevented because Iran uncharacteristically decided to be the adult in the room.

Allowing Trump to get reelected only empowers everything you claim to oppose, and we can't even pretend that there's any uncertainty in that this round because we've actually seen it. Maybe you're an accelerationist who would like to see Trump literally destroy America inside-out, but let me tell you there's going to be a whole lot of genocide along that path before America actually collapses, so...

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