Nastya Buryk was just 4 years old when her mother, Mariya, noticed that something was seriously wrong.
Nastya went to a hospital in Odesa, where the family lived, but the kind of treatment recommended for her was not available there. Artem took a leave of absence from the (Ukrainian) military to be with his family and decide what to do.
The parents learned that they could get state-of-the-art treatment for Nastya in Israel. They decided Mariya would take their daughter there while Artem stayed behind to keep fighting.
On June 15, Iranian missiles struck the city of Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv where the family was staying.
The apartment where they lived had been partially destroyed in a missile strike, killing and injuring many civilians. Among the dead were Nastya, Mariya, Nastya’s grandmother, and the two young cousins.
The news reached Nastya’s father the next day, when the girl’s aunt called him. “She told me to sit down,” Artem said. “I sat down and she told me that a missile hit the building in Israel and killed everyone.”
Congrats on missing the point completely.
This story is a hit piece to make Iran look bad. You think it’s a human interest piece to make people feel sad for an awful thing that happened to a young girl. It’s not. It’s about making Islamic countries look bad for attacking a poor white girl who was just trying to get healthy. It conveniently ignores where and why Iran attacked and what Israel has been doing to get attacked. It completely ignores all relevant context behind the story. It completely ignores the dozens of kids that are getting killed by Israel on a daily basis. THAT is why people are bringing it up.
And two things in response to this particular post by you: 1) Nobody is blaming this kid. Do you not understand written English? Not one single person said it was the kid’s fault for dying. 2) Nobody would bring up Gaza in a story about a school bus in China because China isn’t out there murdering dozens of Gazans on a daily basis. This is a story about Israel being attacked, so it is relevant to bring up how Israel is attacking multiple countries.
We all feel sad that a little girl died. But this story was a political story masquerading as something else. You fell for it.
And you are choosing to ignore that Ukraine is being bombed daily by Iranian Shahed drones for several years now. So you are missing the point too. What harm did Ukraine do to Iran?