Last year, Mohammad “Medo” Halimy, a 19-year old Palestinian born and raised in Gaza, briefly became a star on social media for his TikTok page showing his day-to-day life during Israel’s war. “I kept watching videos about Gaza online, and they were all very sad and depressing. Since I am a positive person, I didn’t like any of those videos. So, I decided to create a page on TikTok and start posting my daily life on both TikTok and Instagram, focusing only on the positive aspects,” Halimy said in an interview last summer.
His TikTok page, which showed Halimy cooking, gardening, waiting for water, and spending time with friends, rapidly amassed a large following, growing to nearly 190,000 followers. But Halimy’s online celebrity was cut short last summer, when he was killed by what was reported to be shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike.
Halimy’s death prompted an outpouring of grief from his followers across the world. Initial reports framed his death as collateral damage from an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military, and interviews given by friends of Halimy to the international press also stated that an explosion targeting a nearby car had preceded his death. But an American doctor who treated Halimy in Gaza, attempting to save his life after he was brought into the intensive care unit of Nasser Hospital, said that his wounds were not consistent with shrapnel from an airstrike. Instead, there was a single entry and exit point from his skull.
Why should that be inconsistent with shrapnel, which is essential a randomly shaped bullet? Why does this pop up months later anyway? And what would the implications be? Who shoot him right when there was an air strike?
Why should that be inconsistent with shrapnel
Because a bullet isn’t just shaped differently, it also flies differently (speed, trajectory etc), leaving vastly different damages than shrapnel.
which is essential a randomly shaped bullet
That’s like saying that a small dog is essentially a differently shaped cat. By which I mean: no. It isn’t.
Why does this pop up months later anyway?
Probably because the IDF have successfully kept it secret until now, like they usually do when they do anything so blatantly awful that not even some of the most brainwashed Zionists think it’s justified.
And what would the implications be?
That his death was likely no random accident, like it was presented to the world, but rather a targeted assassination of someone whose popularity was beginning to become a problem for the fascist Apartheid regime.
Wh[y] shoot him right when there was an air strike?
Oldest trick in the book: to make it look like it might be an accident.
I wish I could just ignore this comment as though it were the musings of some paranoid individual. But with where the world is at the moment I cannot help but actually consider it as valid. Perhaps I have become paranoid or the world has truly become this problematic. I am not sure which would be worse for me.
If it had been any other government, I would understand your misgivings, but literally nothing of the above would be out of character for the IDF or the Israeli government in general.
MOST of the world hasn’t “become this problematic”, but the Israeli government has been for roughly 75 years. They and their Western allies such as various US and German governments and some of the most trusted establishment media outlets, especially the New York Times) have just been extremely effective at covering for them until relatively recently.
