One of the most repeated questions that was asked by many following the Israeli attack on Palestinians in the Qalandia refugee camp on Aug. 26 — which left three killed — was why? Why does the powerful Israeli army need to carry out a raid inside a Palestinian refugee camp at a time of relative quiet? More perplexing is why this was done during ongoing peace talks aimed at bringing an end to the 46-year Israeli occupation?
The official Israeli narrative has been very simple. The widely circulated Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that — according to the Israeli army's preliminary investigation — the Israeli army and Border Guard forces “felt threatened and began to fire live rounds of ammunition in self-defense despite the fact the Palestinians had not fired on them.”
