Friday, May 6

Israeli drones see everything – so why do they target innocent civilians?


The drones that do the ‘targeting’ for Israeli airstrikes are a constant feature of life for Gazans and their constant aerial surveillance creates a maddening and unescapable soundscape – it also leads to the death of entirely innocent people, as in the case of the Kudeih family below reported by Bonnie King (article) and Ken O’Keefe (video and photos) at the Oregon-based Salem News.
“Just another Israeli war crime in Gaza. A mother and her four daughters preparing for the daughters wedding in a couple of weeks… and then a Israeli rocket explodes between them as they sit in their yard,” said Ken O’Keefe. “A family is destroyed. This is Israel.”
It began with air strikes on April 7, when five Palestinians were killed in raids hitting targets that the Israeli military described as positions where projectiles had been fired from.
Two women and an elderly man were killed in separate strikes near Khan Younis, and two unidentified men were killed near Gaza City.
A mother and daughter had been sitting in their back yard, planning the girl’s upcoming wedding. Her two sisters were there also, and they had spent the day baking bread for the big event. more


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