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Secret Israeli Report Reveals Armed Drone Killed Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach in 2014
Robert Mackey
August 11 2018, 1:09 a.m.
Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images
A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT by Israeli military police investigators seen by The Intercept explains how a tragic series of mistakes by air force, naval, and intelligence officers led to an airstrike in which four Palestinian boys playing on a beach in Gaza in 2014 were killed by missiles launched from an armed drone.
Testimony from the officers involved in the attack, which has been concealed from the public until now, confirms for the first time that the children — four cousins ages 10 and 11 — were pursued and killed by drone operators who somehow mistook them, in broad daylight, for Hamas militants.
The testimony raises new questions about whether the attack, which unfolded in front of dozens of journalists and triggered global outrage, was carried out with reckless disregard for civilian life and without proper authorization. After killing the first boy, the drone operators told investigators, they had sought clarification from their superiors as to how far along the beach, used by civilians, they could pursue the fleeing survivors. Less than a minute later, as the boys ran for their lives, the drone operators decided to launch a second missile, killing three more children, despite never getting an answer to their question
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/11/israel-palestine-drone-strike-operation-protective-edge/
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I seriously have no words for this.
Broad daylight. Kids playing on a beach.
What is the excuse here? Were they using 1950's technology camera's, and couldn't clearly see these were children playing on a beach?
Ok, I don't believe that. Now let's move onto the call in for a confirmation order, and the firing of the 2nd rocket without the confirmation order coming through?
Fucking psycopath war cowboys!
Robert Mackey
August 11 2018, 1:09 a.m.
Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images
A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT by Israeli military police investigators seen by The Intercept explains how a tragic series of mistakes by air force, naval, and intelligence officers led to an airstrike in which four Palestinian boys playing on a beach in Gaza in 2014 were killed by missiles launched from an armed drone.
Testimony from the officers involved in the attack, which has been concealed from the public until now, confirms for the first time that the children — four cousins ages 10 and 11 — were pursued and killed by drone operators who somehow mistook them, in broad daylight, for Hamas militants.
The testimony raises new questions about whether the attack, which unfolded in front of dozens of journalists and triggered global outrage, was carried out with reckless disregard for civilian life and without proper authorization. After killing the first boy, the drone operators told investigators, they had sought clarification from their superiors as to how far along the beach, used by civilians, they could pursue the fleeing survivors. Less than a minute later, as the boys ran for their lives, the drone operators decided to launch a second missile, killing three more children, despite never getting an answer to their question
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/11/israel-palestine-drone-strike-operation-protective-edge/
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I seriously have no words for this.
Broad daylight. Kids playing on a beach.
What is the excuse here? Were they using 1950's technology camera's, and couldn't clearly see these were children playing on a beach?
Ok, I don't believe that. Now let's move onto the call in for a confirmation order, and the firing of the 2nd rocket without the confirmation order coming through?
Fucking psycopath war cowboys!
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