AFP Attempts to Justify Terror Attack That Killed Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld
On Monday night, a Palestinian terrorist attack targeted four young Israeli men in a car fired on while travelling from a basketball game in the Binyamin region of the West Bank. Three men were seriously wounded, while the fourth, Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, died of his wounds. The attack is believed to have been carried out by a Palestinian terror cell. It is the latest of several terrorist attacks, some deadly, that have taken place in the region since the beginning of the Muslim Ramadan, when Israeli security forces ease restrictions on Palestinian travel between the West Bank and Jerusalem.
A June 30th AFP article, “Shooting wounds four Israelis near West Bank settlement” includes the following “explanation” for the terrorist attacks:
A shooting near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank wounded four Israelis ..
…West Bank settlements are considered illegal under international law and Israelis have been attacked previously in and around them, as well as in annexed east Jerusalem.
This comes across disturbingly as AFP’s attempt to legitimize/justify Palestinian terrorism and blame the victims.
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