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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munichThat was my first elimination, he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.
Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.
Its hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesnt really interest me, Raab says in a video interview posted on X. I mean, what was so important about that corpse?
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Goddessartist
(2,176 posts)Biophilic
(6,682 posts)Who are these people? Where did they come from? And dont even try to tell me they claim to be Christian. They have no humanity. I simply want to cry. And cry
David__77
(24,860 posts)AloeVera
(4,418 posts)As will all those who covered and lied for it.
As someone else used to say - History Will Not Be Kind.
This sniper and others like him are soulless automaton killing machines. I wonder how he would feel if that was his own brother or son? Oh, that's different, isn't it?
Rob H.
(5,918 posts)International law protects unarmed individuals and the collection of bodies. (emphasis added) The shootings on Moneer al-Rayyes Street appeared to violate that, experts said. The available evidence points to a war crime, said Tom Dannenbaum, a professor of international law at Stanford law school.
Crunchy Frog
(28,299 posts)The most moral army in the world.
B.See
(8,870 posts)an unconscionable act, regardless the victim, the perp, or his/her affiliation.
Violet_Crumble
(36,420 posts)And to think there's an increasingly small group of US Democrats who blindly support the IDF.
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