Not gonna say there aren't injustices happening, but I don't believe they're shooting children in the head for sport. Not at all. And considering the questionable sources out there, including doctors, I'm very wary of those claims. And fwiw, I'm wary of Isaraeli claims as well. Both are going to slant their claims to their worldview.
It's unfortunate, but there aren't any unbiased witnesses in this conflict.
You don't have to believe anything that you don't want to believe, Dave.
I truly don't mean to be a jerk -- but I've heard this narrative of "well I just don't believe that" more than once with regard to Israel's actions. It comes across to me more as wishful thinking than a real openness to review the evidence before us.
This isn't about what someone wishes or does not wish to be true. It's about what the hard data points to.
With too many pictures of mutilated children, torn to pieces, intestines hanging out, heads smashed, limbs missing from infants and babies -- to count - can we really, truly, continue to say things like this?
Israel kills kids every day with missile strikes, and we're actually debating if Israel would shoot kids in the head?? How much evidence is enough evidence? We have YEARS of evidence already and we are still questioning whether this is intentional?
It's no personal affront - but a challenge to you. I challenge you to consider that what you think you know about Israel's government and the IDF. These are deeply evil actions that will be remembered for a long time to come.
Another surgeon who volunteered at a hospital in Khan Younis - Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, echoing the same experiences -- "Nearly every day I was there (Gaza), I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or chest, virtually all of whom went on to die, thirteen in total":
UK Surgeon Professor Nizam Mamode provided testimony to the UK Parliament - describing how he worked at Nasser hospital in late 2024, where he treated children who reported being shot by quadcopter drones while already injured on the ground. He stated that these attacks appeared from all evidence to be deliberate.
And of course there are the personal accounts from the people of Gaza, which many here continue to invalidate:
And how about when Israel just flat out admits it kills kids? In one incident, a soldier recounted shooting dead a 16-year-old in a hail of bullets, "shooting and laughing".
"That evening, our battalion commander congratulated us for killing a terrorist, saying he hoped we'd kill 10 more tomorrow," the soldier told Haaretz.
"When someone pointed out he was unarmed and looked like a civilian, everyone shouted him down. The commander said: 'Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone's a terrorist.'"
Other testimony revealed the ideological zeal expressed by some commanders for their actions in Gaza.
One soldier recalled Brigadier General Yehuda Vach, head of Division 252, telling his subordinates that "there are no innocents in Gaza".
"It wasn't just opinion - it became operational doctrine: everyone's a terrorist," said the soldier, adding that Vach also said that "in the Middle East, victory comes through conquering territory. We must keep conquering until we win". https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/6079/2022/en/
Article about IDF commander grabbing a young Palestinian child in the street and breaking their arm, kicking him and saying “These kids need to be killed from the day they are born” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/2...be-killed-israel-losing-its-humanity-in-gaza/ How about the evidence and videos we have of the IDF shooting children, even? I mean this is just a few of a whole hell of a lot out there: