An
Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along
Israel’s boundary with Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so
deliberately, under clear and specific orders.
In a
radio interview, Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika Fogel describes
how a sniper identifies the “small body” of a child and is given
authorization to shoot.
Fogel’s
statements could be used as evidence of intent if Israeli leaders are
ever tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.
On
Friday, an Israeli sniper shot dead 14-year-old Muhammad Ibrahim
Ayyoub.
The boy,
shot in the head east of Jabaliya, was the fourth child among the
more than 30 Palestinians killed during the Great March of Return
rallies that began in Gaza on 30 March.
More
than 1,600 other Palestinians have been shot with live ammunition
that has caused what doctors are calling “horrific injuries”
likely to leave many of them with permanent disabilities.
As
eyewitnesses and video confirmed, the child Muhammad Ayyoub posed no
conceivable danger to heavily armed Israeli occupation forces
stationed dozens of meters away behind fences and earthen
fortifications on the other side of the Gaza boundary when he was
killed.
Even the
usually timid United Nations peace process envoy Nickolay Mladenov
publicly declared that the slaying was “outrageous.”
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