Well that picture is not of an 8 year old and an 11 year old. Those children are much younger than that, 3-4 years younger. Odd because Gaza is awash with smartphones so you’d think there would be a more recent picture.
Why would they cross the line which Gazans will know about because the IDF has been clear that anyone crossing it will be deemed a threat? Why send kids towards a military force they are in danger from just to collect firewood? They seem to have Uncles, why wouldn’t they get the firewood?
The IDF would have seen exactly what they were doing, and confirmed a threat. Could have been sent to throw IEDs, to dig up hidden weapons (it’s been reported Hamas has been trying to retrieve weapons they’ve hidden) and it’s not like Palestinians haven’t used kids in this way before.
Kids ‘activity camps’ to train them to use weapons and kill Jews have been running for years in Gaza.
Posting an old picture of much younger kids with the usual emotive storyline that they were ‘collecting firewood to help their disabled father’ proves nothing.
Can I ask that if you were in a scenario as a soldier where a couple of kids were approaching with an IED in hand to throw at you, would you just let them throw it to kill you and your fellow soldiers because they were a kid?
Obviously this is an unimaginable thought as we will never experienced it in our comfy armchairs in the UK, but the IDF have a lot of experience of children being used like this and it is utterly dispicable, but zero outrage from the pro-Palestinians of course.
Terrible these boys have lost their lives when they should have been protected by their parents and government, instead of being used as human sacrifices to engineer more hate towards Israel.