Israeli soldier dedicates bombing of Gaza home as birthday gift to daughter

The heavily armed soldier, flanked by his colleagues, in a video recorded in Hebrew says he dedicates the blast to his adolescent daughter, Princess Ella, on her second birthday.

“She is two years old.  I miss you,” he says, before he and other soldiers around him begin the countdown, followed by a loud explosion and plumes of smoke rising in their vicinity.

The video was shared hours after a four-day truce between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, brokered by Qatar and Egypt, came into effect on Saturday.  The truce came after seven weeks of Israeli aggression that claimed more than 14,000 Palestinian lives in the besieged coastal strip, most of them children and women.

The Israeli bombing campaign has specifically targeted homes, hospitals and schools, which observers say was designed to force the 2.3 million people in Gaza to abandon their homes and migrate.  The video of the Israeli soldier “dedicating” the explosion of a Palestinian home to his two-year-old daughter has drawn widespread anger and outrage from netizens.

“An Israeli occupation soldier dedicates the blowing up of a building in Gaza to his 2-year-old daughter on her birthday,” wrote Rachael Swindon, a British journalist.  “A special place in hell is reserved for these inhumane bastards.”

“How sick and despicable this is!  The idea that a state can be founded on so much hate and evil is disgusting,” Raed Behbehani, a Kuwaiti doctor, posted on X.

“Rather than getting his infant daughter to blow out candles on a cake, he blows up the homes of other children!  Truly sick & twisted people,” wrote Hussein, a research scholar from Australia.

“If you have never seen a true psychopath/mental retardation, look at this video, it’s full of them.  Pity for the young child who is being forced hatred and evilness,” wrote another user.

Israeli regime’s brutal war on the people of Gaza has drawn strongly-worded statements from many world leaders in recent weeks, with many demanding that the Genocide Convention be invoked against the Tel Aviv regime authorities, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Last week, United Nations independent experts denounced the ongoing genocide and a second Nakba in Gaza, referring to the mass exodus of Palestinians following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

“Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making”, the experts said.