Less than a week has passed since the boy Amar al-Sheikh Hujirat was hit and killed by a stray bullet while playing in a playground in the village of Bir al-Maksur.
Hujirat, only 4 years old, absorbed the bullet in front of his mother in a scene that seemed to have been taken from a particularly horrific horror film, but less than seven days later the horrific event almost disappeared from consciousness.
The Israeli news circle is disrupted, especially when an epidemic is raging outside.
Stories and events large and small enter powerfully into our lives and the media agenda, and with the same momentum and speed emerge from them as if they had never happened.
Still, the unbearable death of a 4-year-old boy between swings and slides is an unusual occurrence even in the nightmarish reality of endless violence in the Arab sector, one that will become a watershed and shake the earth - something that did not happen.
The president and other elected officials visited and comforted Hujirat's family, the incident is being investigated for a few days and the police have detainees, but from there we all moved on to the next incident in a numbness show, which is no less tragic than the shooting incident itself.
Perhaps this is the habit of hearing about another shooting victim in Arab society;
Perhaps the fact that Hujirat was a 4-year-old Arab boy, and not a Jewish boy of the same age.
Either way, it's hard not to wonder if the body of a child in a playground is not enough to shake the forearms.
What else needs to happen for the state and those who are supposed to prevent this kind of horror to wake up?
When will the moment come when the never-ending words will become deeds?
How many times has a state of emergency been declared, without any practical action being taken?
How many speeches have been made here about fighting crime like terrorism?
How many promises of special measures, arrests and seizures of weapons flowed in Jordan, with civilians still dying in the background?
In the past, extreme incidents, in which innocent civilians were injured during battles between organizations whose whole essence is crime, have led to aggressive reaction and treatment from Israeli law enforcement systems.
Two such incidents took place in the first decade of the 21st century: the first was a criminal attack in which three civilians were killed in an explosion designed to eliminate the criminal Zeev Rosenstein;
A second incident is the murder of Margarita Lautin, who was hit by a bullet during an assassination attempt on a beach offender and murdered in front of her husband and children.
The deaths of uninvolved people caused a shock and forced law enforcement to step up in the fight against organized crime in the Jewish sector.
A decade and a half later, and the authorities' response to more and more casualties and more and more tragedies is showcase operations, publicity demonstrations and an endless rally that is behind nothing and a half. And then maybe it's going to be a boy who came back from school, maybe an elderly woman who went shopping, maybe another child or toddler in a stroller. One thing is clear to all of us - more people are about to die. It's unfortunate and cruel, but it's a fact. It's very much gone until the next tragedy.
Were we wrong?
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