“A snowflake danced upon the air. Then another. Dance with me, Jon Snow, he thought. You'll dance with me anon.”

I mean, it’s not like I thought the genocide was in anyway justified. It’s not like I thought that behind each civilian death there was a specific reason - but the flippancy. This boy saying “lmao he was the first target I killed”, him not being able to realise that a Palestinian boy running to his brother’s body was an act of love and not an effort to try and retrieve something out of his clothes, the process of dehumanisation being so final that he can calmly state that two brothers and their father were killed because they walked over an imaginary line they weren’t even aware of, and that their cousin/nephew was struck for the same reason and survived by mistake.