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Five of the group's members and a Qatari security officer were killed in Tuesday's strike - though the Palestinian armed group claimed no senior leaders had been killed.

“It seems like a sport, that they want to go hunting maybe. And it’s not like they kill them instantly,” Cheatham said.

Instead, this conservative, religious city was thrust into a national reckoning of political violence, forced into mourning after a gunman killed Charlie Kirk, an influential right-wing activist, as he was speaking at the local university.

Cox said the sheer horror of watching Kirk be killed underscores the larger issues with platforms that repeatedly surface such images.

And the fact that Kirk was killed on a campus is, I think, heartbreaking because campuses symbolize a place where you can engage in political debate in a way that encourages intellectual exploration.