Social media users reacted to the killing of Abu Latif, a member of the 8208 Battalion in the Israeli army’s 261st Brigade, specialized in explosions and responsible for committing horrifying crimes against Palestinians. His funeral was perceived as a deceptive portrayal, suggesting that the Israeli army has members from all religions and religious beliefs, based on “false religious beliefs.”

هل رأيتم جنازة الجندي الإسرائيلي العربي المسلم؟! ذلك الذي قُتِل في غزة..

هل رأيتم صورته وهو في المسجد، ثم صورته بثياب الجندية تحت العلم الإسرائيلي؟!

هل رأيتم جثمانه، وهو يُصلَّى عليه، ويُدعى له بدخول الجنة؟! وتقرأ له الفاتحة؟!

هذا المشهد مشهد ممتاز وخطير وفارق ومفصلي لكل مسلم… pic.twitter.com/58GsDZwtz1

— محمد إلهامي (@melhamy) January 23, 2024

Ahmed Abu Latif met his demise along with 20 soldiers while attempting to detonate a house in Gaza after its residents were expelled, following approximately 108 days of the brutal Israeli war that led to the martyrdom of over 11,000 children and 7,500 Palestinian women.

It was noteworthy to his relatives that his body was wrapped in an Israeli flag during the funeral prayer, causing a widespread stir on social media.

شايفين هذا الشاب….متصور مع ابوه في الجامع …كلهم ايمان و تقوى !
لا تنخدع …..هذا اسمه أحمد ابو لطيف ملازم في سلاح الهندسة ، كان من ضمن ال ٢٤ المقتولين بالأمس في #خانيونس !!!
في الفيديو بيقول أنه سعيد بوجوده مع زملاؤه في ملاحقة المقاومين في #غزة !!!
شوفوا كيف الكفر ليس… pic.twitter.com/UkfkrVDXKP

— Khityar Abu Beesan (@YounisBahari) January 23, 2024

“The Deceptive Piety”

Journalist Bilal Al-Bakari commented on the scene, tweeting: “This image stopped me, and despite its absurdity, it expresses the state of deceptive human piety that dissolves amidst many events without paying attention to it.”

Al-Bakari explained the scene he shared of Ahmed Abu Latif’s funeral: “This is an Israeli soldier named ‘Ahmed Abu Latif’ who claims to be (Muslim), and the resistance killed him yesterday along with a group of soldiers while they were rigging a group of houses in Gaza.”

He added, “Today, his family and clan are offering funeral prayers for him in the Islamic manner, as if he were a ‘Muslim’ indeed!”

لم يكن عربياً، وإن كان فلسطينياً من النقب. لم يكن مسلماً، وإن حظيت جثته بصلاة جنازة. كان إسرائيلياً فاقعاً في صهيونيته.
العربيُّ البدويُّ عاشَ جندياً ببزة عسكرية إسرائيلية، وقُتلَ فيها، وله أمثالٌ يتقاضون رواتبَ وأرزاقاً، وله أيضاً أهلٌ وأقارب يُعاملون كمرتزقة، وفي أفضل الأحوال…

— باسل رفايعة Basil Alrafaih (@basilrafayeh) January 24, 2024

The journalist sarcastically pointed out the desperate way in promoting the occupation: “Personally, I love ‘humanity,’ and I love charity work and raising pigeons and pursuing turtle rights violators, and I adore distributing eggplants to dolphins. But the problem is that this humanity itself, over time, removes the sanctity from all the higher values, standards, or concepts that could restrict absolute dominance by any person!”

He continued, “You may wake up in the morning to find that war is a ‘human’ thing, and purification and extermination operations are ‘human’ acts, and applying the survival of the fittest principle and spreading the law of the jungle are humane principles.”

الصورة دي توقفت عندها ورغم عبثيتها إلا إنها معبرة عن حالة التدين الإنسانوي المخادع اللي بتذوب وسط أحداث كتير بدون الإنتباه لها.

ده جندي إسرائيلي اسمه “أحمد أبو لطيف” وبيدَّعي إنه (مسلم)، والمقاومة قتلته بالأمس هو ومجموعة من الجنود خلال تفخيخهم لمجموعة من المنازل في غزة، اليوم… pic.twitter.com/7UX24RJp0k

— بلال البخاري (@BelalElbukhary) January 23, 2024

Bilal Al-Bakari affirmed that this is what happened with “the case of the terrorist soldier who got killed, a person who aligns with an extremist Zionist terrorist entity based on false religious beliefs and defends them with his blood… and kills the landowners and annihilates them for generations. After all this, what could make him still associated with ‘Islam’ that he claims to believe in? Nothing!”

A Scene Satan Couldn’t Create!

Al-Bakari concluded his tweet by describing what happened at the funeral of the slain Ahmed Abu Latif: “In the end, you find his remains wrapped in an Israeli flag, surrounded by some flowers, in an astonishing scene that Satan and his companions are unable to create, and a group of the inferiors pray for him as a form of honoring and lamenting a terrorist killer whose only mission is to harvest the lives of children and civilians.”

Turkish affairs researcher Saeed Al-Haj commented on the image: “One of the wonders of fate: funeral prayer for a body wrapped in the ‘Israeli’ flag!! ‘Palestinian’ Ahmed Abu Latif, who was one of the Zionist soldiers killed in yesterday’s explosion in Gaza. What a life, what an end, and what a fate!”

من عجائب الدهر: صلاة جنازة على جثة ملفوفة بعلم “إسرائيل”..!!
“الفلسطيني” احمد ابو لطيف الذي كان احد الجنود الصهاينة الذين قضوا في تفجير امس في #غزة.
بئس الحياة وبئس النهاية وبئس المصير.!! pic.twitter.com/95tnN3QoC8

— سعيدالحاج said elhaj (@saidelhaj) January 23, 2024

Twitter user Adham Abu Salameh added in a disdainful tone: “It’s normal for his name to be ‘Ahmed,’ and it’s normal for him to be wrapped in the flag of the criminal Zionist enemy, and you find his family praying for him.”

He added, “It’s very normal for a criminal terrorist killer to be a Zionist. Today, Zionism is not limited to a religion or form; it is a global movement that includes every criminal killer who accepts this Zionist existence and is pleased with its crimes.”

It’s worth noting that the deceased used to share an image of Al-Aqsa Mosque on his social media accounts, with the caption: “O Allah, make my concern the Hereafter… O Allah, we do not know when our return to You will be, so perfect our ending, and do not take us from this except when You are pleased with us.”