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In the last hours I witnessed a brutal escalation of Israeli attacks against civilians in Gaza.
10 dead, 5 of them were children.
In this video, taken this evening at 5: 45 pm by one of the windows of my house, one of the terrible Israeli drones UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), flying over the port of Gaza City.
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Vittorio Arrigoni from Gaza City.
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1 February 2009: A 13-year-old girl who was asleep in her bed; three primary school-age boys who were carrying sugar canes; two young women on their way to a shelter in search of safety; a 13-year-old boy on his bicycle; eight secondary school students who were waiting for the school bus to take them home; an entire family sitting outside their home -- these are among the many victims of missiles fired from Israeli UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), commonly known as drones.
Here in Gaza people call the drones "zannana", an onomatopoeic description reflecting the buzzing sound that they emit as they fly overhead. Their main function is surveillance, but, in recent years, Israeli forces have also used them to fire missiles, often to assassinate "wanted" Palestinians.
An Israeli journalist told us that the military censor does not permit Israeli media to publish any reference to strikes by drones. These missiles seem to be very precise, with a relatively small but concentrated radius. Yet, they have killed or injured hundreds of civilians, including many children, though the reason for this -- whether due to faulty intelligence, wanton recklessness, or a combination of the two -- is unclear.
In many of the cases we investigated, we found a consistent pattern: each missile is packed with tiny metal cubes that increase its lethal effect. These are blasted with extreme force, penetrating through metal doors and steel pylons and embedding deep into concrete walls.
Today, we visited the place where a missile fired from a drone killed two women and three children from the same family on the morning of 15 January. It was in a Bedouin village on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, in north Gaza. Those killed were three children, their mother and their grandmother.
The family's home had been destroyed some 10 days earlier by the blast from a powerful air strike that apparently targeted a nearby tunnel. After this, the family had gone to stay with relatives across the road. The two women and three children were killed by the missile when they returned to the remains of their home to retrieve some of their possessions.
Earlier, we investigated several other cases in the Khan Yunis area, in the south of the Gaza Strip. There, the latest drone attack had occurred on 29 January, despite the 11-day-old ceasefire, in the centre of Khan Yunis.
The target, it seems, were two suspected Palestinian militants who were riding a motorcycle. They were hit and injured, but so too were 16 civilians, almost all of them children, as might have been predicted considering the location and time of the missile strike.
It was launched at a point opposite the hospital, only a few metres distant from the entrance to a UN primary school and directly in front of a row of food stalls. The attack was launched at 11.30am, just as children were leaving school at the end of the morning lessons.
On 2 January, three boys from the al-Astal family -- eight-year-old Abderrabbo, his brother Mohammed, aged 11, and Abd-al-Sattar al-Astal, also just 11 -- were killed by a missile fired from a drone while collecting sugar cane in al-Qarara, north-east of Khan Yunis. At the scene, we again found metal posts peppered with the signature square holes from the shrapnel blasted from the drone missile.
Another characteristic of these missiles is a small hole that penetrates deep into the ground, leaving few remains. We asked to borrow a shovel from local farmers in order to dig down and try to recover any remains from the missile. At this, some village youths stepped up enthusiastically and began to dig into the sandy ground.
Some six feet down, they recovered small parts of the circuit board and other shards of the missile. We urged the children's family to hold on to these and keep them safe, as possible evidence to be considered in any future investigation.
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This pro-Palestinian video was posted by Vittorio Arrigoni, who was later kidnapped and murdered by Palestinians.
diefenster 3 weeks ago
Just look at them suffering lol. A drone is not terrorism
dymproductions 1 month ago
Lol implying a reconnaissance drone is terrorism.
ubamilitary 1 month ago
@freepalestine7 You do realize who's Youtube channel this is, right? Some guy named Vittoreo Arrigoni. Now you tell me, was it drones that killed Vittoreo? How exactly did he die again?
earthwormjah 1 month ago
Israeli xenophobia.
vita9n 2 months ago
spray gaza with chemical subtance which would make all of its inhabitants lose their sexual organs ^^
lol that would be cool
ShizjaBe 3 months ago
my god they see this everyday ??
freepalestine7 3 months ago
fuck for israel. indonesian support gaza
niningprasetya 4 months ago
This is music to the ears. Thanks to these cannibals dubbing themselves "palestinian", Israel developed medicines to control their islamic excesses. When the cannibals will start minding their business,tilting "their"land the drones will go away. Till then, enjoy the music !
MOGILVY1 4 months ago
terrorism is to fire thousandths of rockets to Israeli cities using other Gazan as human shields. Terrorism is also suicide booming in a bus or fire at a bus full of people an anti tank missile. However to use UAVs to see who does the terror is not terrorism. I almost sure that 5 minutes later those two fire going to fire rockets to Israel and then will ask how they became to be chips.
TheTophar 5 months ago