Footage showing the moment Hala Khreis was killed as she tried to leave Gaza City went viral earlier this month. It’s one of a growing number of videos that show unarmed civilians holding white flags being shot dead.
Why are they shooting at unarmed grandmothers holding hands with a child?
Because it’s collective punishment and they want to maximize suffering.
But that will never be officially said. They are well trained to know what is legal and what is not.
So the official reason will always be that they thought she was a terrorist. Some combination of not being able to see properly in the dust, being under fire from her general direction and terrorists dressing like civilians.
Because they’re radicalized far-right terrorists invading another foreign nation and committing genocide as a matter of state policy.
Because that child will one day become hamas. Obviously. /s
honestly, indefensible. its all fucked up.
They think she’s the wrong race.
nope. israel isn’t doing genocide. nope. no genocide or other war crimes here.
now watch them accuse us of being antisemitic and invoke the holocaust. these assholes need to know just because 6+ million of your people were murdered doesn’t give you the excuse to do the same thing to another people.
CNN doing actual Investigative journalism against israel? Never thought I’d see the day.
This was passed through Jerusalem, so there’s likely to be worse that wasn’t released.
I recall seeing a zoomed in version of this clip around 2-4 weeks ago. At the time I wasn’t sure whether it was made recently as it was very grainy looking. Sometimes old footage gets reposted.
But it looks like the footage was just digitally zoomed. This is the first time I’m seeing the zoomed out footage.
There really no defense to this, no confusion. This is murder, a war crime.
Well how else well Israelie troops know who to shoot I guess. I can’t beive there isn’t more news on this kind of behaviour on Israel’s part.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Their family had spent weeks agonizing over whether to flee as Israeli troops moved into Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, tanks rolling past their front door and a terrifying cacophony of bombs, quadcopter drones and gunfire thundering all around them.
The IDF has repeatedly claimed that it is doing everything in its power to avoid harming civilians, but its soldiers shot hostages waving a white flag, violating its rules of engagement and raising questions about those efforts.
You made us feel like it’s safe to leave, we had white flags in our hands as instructed,” Sara told CNN in an interview from Istanbul, where she has joined her Turkish fiancée after fleeing through Rafah Crossing.
The IDF has not commented on the family’s claim, but satellite imagery and photos from the same period reviewed by CNN show that Israeli troops were stationed in the area, including at a school just 200 meters (about 650 feet) down the road, to the west of where Hala was killed.
The Khreis family say they were told that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had organized an evacuation route on a road running south, but as they fled, the message changed to go east.
Nour, another of Hala’s daughters, who is in Rafah, said that she had begged her mother for weeks to flee, but she refused, worried about how she and the rest of the family might survive the journey south amid reports that evacuation areas were being hit.
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