"I Could Be the Next Sha'ban": 21-Year-Old Journalist from Gaza Reports on Teenager Burned Alive

[Uncle Joe]

Tributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah on Monday. Photographs and footage of his final moments shocked millions around the world as Sha'ban laid in a hospital bed with an IV attached to his arm as the flames engulfed him. His mother and youngest brother have also reportedly succumbed to their burns, and his two sisters are on the verge of dying from their injuries. "Another family is going to be wiped off the civil record," says Abubaker Abed, a 21-year-old journalist reporting live from outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital who interviewed al-Dalou's family and friends. Abed once dreamed of becoming a football commentator and is struggling to find food and supplies while Israel enacts a near-complete siege on Gaza. "We are young men that have nothing to do with this war. … But we are very daily being subjected to sheer violence and brutality," says Abed. "I could be the next Sha'ban. Anyone could be the next Sha'ban, because Israel is allowed to do anything."

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[AloeVera]

1. Shameful and revolting.

No one should suffer as Sha'ban, his mother, brother and two sisters have, all burned alive.

For what? How does this make Israel safer?

There is no bottom to Israel's cruel war policies or disdain for Palestinian lives.

[jimfields33]

2. If they got that Hamas leader, that makes the country safer.

Of course we wish it could be done differently like Hamas stepping down and they stop using humans as Shields.

[AloeVera]

3. The death of two boys and their Mom, the likely death from burns of many more makes no one safer.

That's a really awful take that frankly enables the savagery to continue.

Indiscriminate, heartless killing in the name of some fantasy or lie of future "security" is neither moral nor legal. It's shocking so many are still willing to spout such nonsense that at heart is appallingly amoral, unjust and irrational.It's unjust because it values the lives of some over others. Irrational as it posits that future security and peace can be gained through killing and violence without addressing the root causes of this whole sorry stain on humanity over the last 75 years.

There was no Hamas leader killed because there never was one there. Only Sha'Ban, his mother, brother, two sisters along with the other displaced and injured. Show me proof otherwise. You can't. Israel doesn't provide proof. It just bombs whoever and whatever it wants and sadly it's STILL enabled in its impunity and amorality by many here on DU.

[Eko]

4. That is not the way the US and most countries do it.

They dont kill 4 civilians to get one terrorist. If there even was a terrorist there.

[RVN VET71]

5. Tragic and horrifying

See post below.

[RVN VET71]

6. A pox on both leaders.

These deaths were all caused by Yahya Sinwar who planned and launched the barbaric and sadistic attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

But these deaths were also caused by Netanyahu, as anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear can see.

His reaction to Sinwar's admittedly monstrous attack on civilians has far exceeded any justifiable retribution even for the brutalization of the 1,400 Israeli civilians -- including infants! -- slaughtered by the human excrement Sinwar sent to Israeli on October 7th.

Still, for the campus protesters who are angry and aggrieved at the 1,000s of deaths in Gaza, I am in agreement with you.

But for those protesting in support of Hamas who are, therefore, seeking the destruction of Israel and her people as a nation, I am in more than disagreement and hope the former can dissociate themselves from the latter. Hamas is not a liberation movement; it is a genocidal movement -- demonstrated clearly by its own words and writings as well as by its actions, most poignantly those on October 7th.