What if the elderly woman who was mauled by the dog was Israeli? Would the international community, “armored” with human rights, have tolerated this incident?

Dawlat Al-Tanani, an old Palestinian woman from Jabalia camp, did not leave her house during the repeated seasons of displacement that the people of the Gaza Strip experienced from north to south, and vice versa, for no other reason than because her weak body, which had grown weaker in light of hunger, oppression and fear, could not bear this life of homelessness and could not walk that way. distances, and often under bombardment and bullets.

Dawlat Al-Tanani (68 years old) was like others expecting death at every moment, as long as the fires of this hell that Israel had caused with all kinds of American munitions were burning, but “survival” was written for her, and she was living every moment at a time and not every day at a time, until the sweeping attack came on Jabalia camp a few weeks ago, when she was surprised by an Israeli dog, with a number of soldiers behind it, attacking her in her room, which lacked the minimum necessities of life. It began to dig its fangs into her weak body and maul her. She was severely injured in the arm, while her cries for help could hardly be heard, and there was no answer. By dragging her outside where the soldiers are.

Israel did not prevent a crime it did not commit in Gaza 

What did the occupying state not do in Gaza? Have you committed a crime that might come to mind that you did not commit, against women, children, the elderly, old people, and young men, and against schools, universities, homes, streets, farms, institutions, etc.??
All of this is happening while the criminal Israel is protected by the most powerful country in the world, along with many countries that resemble it in their colonial legacy!

The atrocities of the occupation affected everyone and everything 

The Israeli dog’s attack on the elderly woman, Dawlat al-Tanani, was not the worst thing that happened in this brutal war. It killed children and adults while they were sleeping in their beds, the displaced in shelter centers and in tents, infants in incubators, the sick and wounded in hospitals, burying people alive and exterminating people individually and in groups. Removing entire families from the records of life is much uglier and crueler.

Depriving children of food, drink, safety, and their promising future, and breaking the hearts of fathers and mothers against their children, and children against their fathers, mothers, brothers, and friends, is much worse than what happened to citizen Dawlat Al-Tanani.

They excel at abusing prisoners 

What the Gazan prisoners experienced in the detention fields and in the prisons, in terms of the violation of their human dignity, the abuse and torture with electricity, batons and restraints at the hands of soldiers and investigators, and the fangs of their police dogs, and what the prisoners from all the cities, villages and camps of Palestine are constantly exposed to in the occupation prisons during the raids of the repression units, which Her dogs always preceded her to their cells, as did the elderly Dawlat and Yazid.

What happened to the elderly woman, Dawlat, was not the only incident that happened in this barbaric war. How many Gazan citizens were mauled by their dogs, and their pain and fear remained confined to their owners because no recording of what happened to them leaked. There are many incidents that are equally horrific and may even be more horrific.

It is neither the first nor the last crime 

What happened to the elderly woman, Dawlat al-Tanani, was not the first crime of this kind, and it will not be the last. The occupation army and its settlers have long used their police dogs, trained to pounce only on Palestinians, to terrorize citizens in the West Bank, even before there was a “flood” and aggression like this. The size, as their rabid dogs pounced on men, women, and children, mauling them, and bleeding their bodies, without international humanitarian and human rights institutions paying attention to such brutal practices.

A long series of similar crimes in the West Bank 

Who does not remember the citizen, Yusra Rabaiah, from the village of Al-Ubaidiya, east of Bethlehem? When one of the occupiers’ dogs attacked her in March 2007, mauled her and dragged her in full view of the soldiers, and the child Muhammad Fadl Abd al-Rahman Qasim (12 years old) from the Jenin camp, their dog mauled his juicy flesh in December 2005, and Akram Jamal from the Tabqa village south of Hebron in February 2012. And Malek Mualla from the Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood in Al-Bireh, and Hajj Salem from Tammoun. A huge dog attacked him ferociously while he was on his bed, bit off his ear and hand, and dragged him to the ground for more than half an hour, while the soldiers watched the scene without doing anything, and the young man Hamza Irshaid during his arrest from the village of Sir. Near Jenin in February 2024, and the child Ibrahim Jamal Hashash (3 years old) in Balata camp was horrified and his tender flesh was mauled by one of their wild dogs in February 2024 as well.

The list goes on and on, and the occupation army, “the most moral in the world,” continues its criminal practices, and the State of Israel, which was established on the ruins of the Palestinian people, still enjoys immunity even after the world realized its reality.