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Oct. 16, 2024 - Jim Fetzer
06:27
Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Children In The Head
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Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian kids in the head.
There's yet another doctor testimonial about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head, this one published in the New York Times.
The report, titled 65 Doctors, Nurses, and Paramedics, What We Saw in Gaza, begins as follows, quote, I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25th to April 8th.
I've volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan.
I've seen violence and worked in conflict zones.
But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me.
Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or chest, virtually all of whom went on to die, 13 in total.
At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby.
But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me.
I couldn't believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head, I told him.
To my surprise, he responded, Yeah, me too.
Every single day.
End quote. Numerous named medical staff who worked in Gaza then testify in the report about routine encounters with children who'd been shot in the head and chest by Israeli forces, as well as children and infants suffering from severe malnutrition and easily preventable infections.
Such reports have been coming out all year.
Because Israel has not been allowing foreign press into Gaza, medical staff have in many ways become the de facto Western journalists on the ground in the enclave.
And they are all saying the same thing.
Back in July, a group of 45 doctors and nurses who'd been working in Gaza signed an open letter to President Biden testifying that every single signatory to this letter treated children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them.
Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and chest.
Also in July, Politico published an article by two American surgeons named Mark Perlmutter and Feroz Sidawa titled, Nothing Prepared Us for What We Saw, Two Weeks Inside a Gaza Hospital, which contains the following passage, quote, We started seeing a series of children, pre-teens mostly, who'd been shot in the head.
They'd go on to slowly die, only to be replaced by new victims who'd also been shot in the head, and who would also go on to slowly die.
Their families told us one of two stories.
The children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces.
In April, an article titled, Not a Normal War, Doctors Say Children Have Been Targeted by Israeli Snipers in Gaza, was published in The Guardian, citing nine doctors who'd worked in Gaza after October 7th, who, quote, reported treating a steady stream of children, elderly people, and others who were clearly not combatants, with single bullet wounds to the head or chest.
Forensic pathologists were able to identify bullets used by the Israeli military in these attacks on children.
Here's a quote from that article.
The Guardian shared descriptions and images of gunshot wounds suffered by eight children with military experts and forensic pathologists.
They said it was difficult to conclusively determine the circumstances of the shootings based on the descriptions and photos alone, although in some cases they were able to identify ammunition used by the Israeli military.
In February, the LA Times published an article titled, I'm an American doctor who went to What I saw wasn't war, it was annihilation.
The author, a reconstructive surgeon named Irfan Galaria, writes as follows, quote, On one occasion, a handful of children, All about ages five to eight were carried to the emergency room by their parents.
All had single sniper shots to the head.
These families were returning to their homes in Kan Yunis, about two and a half miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn.
But the snipers apparently stayed behind.
None of these children survived." So this is happening.
The evidence is undeniable and the sourcing is as solid as it gets.
There are mountains upon mountains of rock-solid proof that Israeli forces routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian children in the head in Gaza.
The only reason this isn't being treated as an established fact by the Western political media class is because the Israeli military denies it, telling The Guardian in response to the aforementioned report that The IDF only targets terrorists and military targets.
In stark contrast to Hamas's deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians, including men, women, and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm.
Doctors say otherwise, the Guardian wrote.
Indeed, there is no longer any fact-based reason to deny that Israel is deliberately targeting children with sniper fire.
The facts are in, and the case is closed.
The only basis anyone can have for denying this established fact is their own personal loyalty to the State of Israel and its military, and or their own personal disdain for Palestinian lives.
This fact punches holes in so many of the narratives used to defend Israel over the past year.
That Israel is conducting itself in a more ethical way than Hamas.
That Israel is waging a war against Hamas and not the Palestinian people.
That the IDF are the most moral army in the world and are taking extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties.
That civilians are being killed in Gaza because Hamas uses them as human shields.
That this is a war for Israel's self-defense and not a campaign of extermination driven by hate and racism.
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