‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza also report a terrifying new development in the latest Gaza war – armed drones able to hover over streets and pick off individuals. Called quadcopters, some of these drones are used as remote-control snipers that Palestinians say have been used to shoot civilians.
Doctors and children havent just been targeted with snipers. They've been targeted with sniper drones.
Let that sink in. The Guardian reports this is the first time sniper drones have been used. Imagine the horror of modern day terrorism where your occupying army is not only starving you to death, but also is fkyijg swarms of drones through your streets and picking off doctors, children, journalists, and foreign humanitarian workers with sniper drones
Dr Thaer Ahmad, a Chicago doctor who volunteered in Nasser hospital’s emergency room, said quadcopters sometimes appeared in swarms, giving orders to Palestinians to clear an area.
“We heard an incredible amount of stories from people recovering from injuries from these quadcopters firing bullets from the sky,” he said.
Ahmad said that on one occasion a drone shot one of the hospital’s doctors in the head, although he survived.
Dr Ahmed Moghrabi described on Instagram “hundreds” of quadcopters descending on the Nasser hospital in the third week of February and ordering people to evacuate the compound before killing a number of them. On another occasion, he filmed quadcopters giving instructions to Palestinians to leave the area.
Although the Israeli military has previously deployed quadcopters for intelligence gathering, this appears to be the first time that versions of the drone able to fire guns have been used against the Palestinians.
Sadly, the targeting of kids is a longstanding tradition in war. The US does it too, and Trump even honored a child killer at the White House during his term.
Fair point but most countries at least make some effort that there's an actual war going on against armed adult combatants when the people on the ground do their little occasional war crimes. Israel as far as I can tell is just going into a mostly-disarmed-and-civilian population and shooting whoever they feel like including children and doctors and aid workers; I actually don't know what the word for that is but calling it "war" is sugarcoating by an obscene amount what it is.
Israel as far as I can tell is just going into a mostly-disarmed-and-civilian population and shooting whoever they feel like
Again, also what the US does. We haven't fought a war against an opponent that can actually fight back in 50 years. And in that war, the guy that perpetrated the My Lai Massacre got house arrest, but only after someone leaked documents on the massacre to the press.
Wars are all horrible.
But the world's humanitarian NGOs, experienced in war zones, are saying this is unusual in its scale and scope of pediatric and civilian deaths.
There are also experimental weapons being "combat tested" against Palestinians. Sniper drones are an example.
I don't see why you would want to downplay these things.
Palestine has its own special medical circumstance which isn't common enough anywhere else in the world -- in any war or disaster zone -- to need its own acronym. Only in Gaza.
'Everyone in the World Needs to See This': Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans
"There is no way they could have been considered combatants," said one writer and analyst. "This is unreal."
(Warning: Watching the video embedded in the article may distress users.)
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Dr Fozia Alvi was making her rounds of the intensive care unit on her final day at the battered European public hospital in southern Gaza when she stopped next to two young arrivals with facial injuries and breathing tubes in their windpipes.
Other young victims include 14-year-old Nahedh Barbakh, who was hit by sniper fire alongside his 20-year-old brother, Ramez, as they followed Israeli military orders to evacuate an area west of Khan Younis in late January, according to the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Prof Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British-Palestinian surgeon and who was recently elected rector of the University of Glasgow, told Mondoweiss, a leftwing Israel-Palestine news site, that working at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City “we were getting a lot of people shot by these quadcopters, these drones that have sniper guns attached to them”.
Quadcopter killings documented by Euro-Med Monitor include two children shot dead on 21 January when drones opened fire at al-Aqsa University near Khan Younis, where thousands of displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
The surgeon took a photo of the bullet, which former IDF soldiers who spoke with the Guardian identified as a powerful .50 calibre round typically fired from a machine gun mounted on an armoured vehicle, although it has also been used in sniper rifles.
However, the IDF made the mistake of attaching a copy of its secret internal investigation, which said the riot had been much earlier in the day and that soldiers who opened fire on the child were guilty of a “serious deviation from obligatory norms of behaviour”.
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Fuck Israel.
Israel has dehumanized the people of Palestine for a long time. This is not at all surprising. The western world looks the other way for decades to avoid the uncomfortable truth.
Pretty normal IDF behaviour.
There is no D in the Israeli army. I think you mean the IOF