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One beautiful February morning, three-year-old Palestinian boy Imad Hazem ran excitedly to buy oranges from a street vendor. Eager to eat his favorite fruit, he hurried back home.
Por: Humaira Ahad
While crossing a street in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City, three kilometers from the city center, an Israeli sniper shot him and his twenty-year-old cousin Hadeel dead instantly.
A graphic video documenting the crime went viral on social media, showing the bodies of the boy and his cousin.
In January, an Israeli sniper killed thirteen-year-old Nahid and twenty-year-old Ramez Barbak in the Al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Yunis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Following Israeli evacuation orders, Nahid was waving a white flag above his head when he was shot right outside his home. Ramez ran to save his younger brother, but was shot in the chest and fell on top of Nahid and the white flag.
Their bodies remained abandoned on the road for hours while their family, unable to get closer due to continuous Israeli gunfire and shelling, watched helplessly.
In December 2023, two Palestinian women who sought refuge in the Holy Family Church in Gaza were killed by an Israeli sniper inside the place of worship, which they considered the safest place in the besieged strip.
In February, 14-year-old Ruwa Qdeih was pronounced dead after being shot by an Israeli sniper at the entrance to Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis.
In December 2023, 16-year-old Sama Berqenie, holding a white flag, was killed on the spot in northern Gaza when an Israeli sniper shot him directly.
In January, a video went viral showing an Israeli sniper shooting at a group of young Gazans carrying a white flag in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood along the Mediterranean coast, a “safe zone.” ” designated.
The sniper killed a Palestinian who made a hand gesture.
In another incident in January, a Palestinian grandmother, Hala Khreis, was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while following evacuation orders from the Israeli army and carrying a white flag.
Several reports indicate that Israeli snipers shot and killed numerous Palestinians in July after the Israeli army gave an evacuation order for Palestinians to head south, intensifying its offensive across the besieged territory.
These cases are just a sample of the bigger picture, experts say. The Israeli regime has attacked hundreds of Palestinians during its year-long genocidal war in Gaza, which has already claimed nearly 43,000 lives, most of them children and women.
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🔹More than 28,000 women and children have been killed in Israel’s attacks since the start of its indiscriminate war against the Gaza Strip🇵🇸, October 7, 2023.
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The United Nations has expressed shock at the “deliberate attacks and extrajudicial killings of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge or while fleeing.”
Most of the victims were holding white flags as Israeli regime soldiers mercilessly killed them.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (Euro-Med Monitor), a pro-HR group based in Geneva, has documented cases of Israeli army snipers attacking mainly civilians in shelters, hospitals, streets and residential areas.
“Israeli sniper operations, assassinations and executions primarily target unarmed civilians in shelters, hospitals, streets and residential areas. “These civilians do not pose a threat or danger to anyone, as they are not involved in any hostility,” Euro-Med said in a report.
Testimonies of foreign doctors who volunteered in Gaza
Foreign doctors who volunteered in Gaza have described the situation in the besieged strip as “horrible”, with regime forces deliberately shooting Palestinian children and adults in the head and chest.
“I have two children that I took pictures of. They were shot so perfectly in the chest that I couldn’t have placed my stethoscope over their hearts more accurately,” said Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon who volunteered in Gaza.
“They were also shot on the side of the head. No little boy is mistakenly shot twice by the ‘world’s best sniper’. “These shots were right in the center.”
Another American doctor said he had to look at the CT scans again because he “didn’t believe that so many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.”
Irfan Galaria, a US-based plastic and reconstructive surgeon, noted that Gaza was unlike any other war zone in which he worked as a volunteer.
“What I witnessed over the next 10 days in Gaza was not a war, it was annihilation,” he said.
Galaria recounted a chilling experience in the American newspaper The Los Angeles Timesdescribing how a group of children, all between 5 and 8 years old, were brought to the emergency room by their parents.
They all had a single sniper shot to the head. None of these children survived.
Dr. Fozia Alvi, a Canadian doctor who volunteered in Gaza, recalled her last day at the European Public Hospital, where she encountered two young newcomers with facial wounds and breathing tubes.
“They were seven or eight years old, with sniper shots in the brain,” he said. “They were paraplegic, lying like vegetables in those beds,” he remarked.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general and trauma surgeon who worked in Gaza for two weeks, has been advocating for an arms embargo on the Israeli regime.
“Almost every day I was there, I saw a new little boy who had been shot in the head or chest, and almost all of them died,” Sidhwa noted, sharing his experience.
Sidhwa said he spoke to 65 health workers, 57 of whom confirmed cases of children being shot in the head or chest by Israeli snipers.
Doctors say the location of the wounds and details provided by the families confirm that the victims were deliberately targeted by Israeli snipers.
“They said people started returning to their homes because the army had left, but the snipers stayed. “Families reported that snipers opened fire on their children,” said Dr. Vanita Gupta, a US-based intensive care doctor, according to the British magazine The Guardian.
A group of 99 American doctors and health professionals who volunteered in Gaza recently wrote to the US government, urging an immediate end to military, economic and diplomatic support for the Tel Aviv regime.
“It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children in Gaza, sustained for an entire year, could be accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civil and military authorities,” the statement read.
Death and destruction in Gaza after 365 days of genocide
As the besieged Gaza Strip marks the first anniversary of the war waged by the Israeli regime, a report reveals the scale of death and devastation.
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Quadcopters used for targeted killings in Gaza
On October 9, Mohammed al-Tanani, a 26-year-old Palestinian journalist who worked for the Palestinian television channel Al-Aqsawas killed by an Israeli quadcopter that fired near his team covering the regime’s attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
In a horrific incident, 17-year-old Elyas Osama Ezzedin Abu Jama, mentally and physically disabled, was killed along with his 19-year-old brother Muhib in the Al-Sabour refugee camp in Rafah.
“At night, we heard gunshots around us. In less than a minute, a quadcopter flying above us started shooting directly at our tent,” said his father, Osama Ezzedin Abu Jama.
In December 2023, three-year-old Amir Odeh was shot in the chest by a quadcopter drone while he was in a room at the Palestinian Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis.
The Israeli military has increasingly used quadcopters, or small drones, to shoot directly at Palestinians, killing and wounding many. These quadcopters act as remote controlled snipers.
“The Israeli army is using small killer drones equipped with machine guns and missiles of the Matrice 600 and LANIUS categories, which are very mobile and versatile, that is, ideal for short-term operations. Their systems can automatically search for buildings and create maps to identify potential targets,” the human rights organization wrote in its report.
Wilhelmi Massay, a critical care and trauma nurse from Omaha, Nebraska, who spent nearly a month volunteering at the Indonesian Hospital in Deir al-Balah (northern Gaza) and the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis (southern Gaza) recently He was one of the signatories of the letter to Biden.
In an interview with the website Press TVshared his harrowing experiences and observations of working amidst the ongoing genocidal war that completed one year earlier this month.
“It was a massacre: death, suffering and devastation everywhere. “Israeli bombing targeted displaced civilians and sniper fire was an implacable threat,” Massay recalled.
Of his experiences in Gaza, Massay told the website Press TV that he and his colleagues treated an “overwhelming number of gunshot wounds to the head, neck, chest and lower extremities.”
“Israeli forces deliberately targeted those shots as fatal shots to the heart, head and neck. “The majority of the victims were children under 18 years of age, and women represented a large part of those killed or injured,” he said, pointing out that 69 percent of the fatalities in Gaza are children and women.
Text collected from a published article in PressTV.
