Over 200 Palestinians were killed and nearly 8,000 were injured during almost two years of weekly protests at the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli army snipers tell their stories
I know exactly how many knees I’ve hit, says Eden, who completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces as a sniper in its Golani infantry brigade six months ago. For much of the time, he was stationed along the border with the Gaza Strip. His assignment: to repel Palestinian demonstrators who approached the fence.
“I kept the casing of every round I fired,” he says. “I have them in my room. So I don’t have to make an estimate – I know: 52 definite hits.”
But there are also “non-definite” hits, right?
“There were incidents when the bullet didn’t stop and also hit the knee of someone behind [the one I aimed at]. Those are mistakes that happen.”
Is 52 a lot?
“I haven’t really thought about it. It’s not hundreds of liquidations like in the movie ‘American Sniper’: We’re talking about knees. I’m not making light of it, I shot a human being, but still ..
source: HAARET
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Categories: Arab World, Asia, Israel, Jewish Faith
many of them children.
and… silence from Somi
The bad people who order children to go there.
Who ordered children? May be their parent or their scholars.
Maybe their scholars say to them: if you die there you will go to Heaven. So they are not afraid of get killed—if they are afraid of death, they would not go there . For sure.
That way I see that conflict between Hamas and Israel.
and not a word of condemnation for the snipers and their bosses … shame, I would say. Yes, you can blame the parents, but the other side too.
Actually I think not only the children should go to the border. I think ALL 3 – 4 million Palestinians should at the same time walk to their old homes. Just my personal thoughts. Yes, we should not only send the children to the border to protest.