Despite
getting more than two million views on YouTube—and climbing—filmed evidence of
an outrageous Zionist Supremacist war crime is being totally ignored by the biased
Jewish Supremacist controlled “western” media as part of their campaign
to cover up their brethren’s evil deeds.
The video shows an unarmed
Palestinian man, searching among the rubble of Gaza for his family, being
mercilessly gunned down by Israeli snipers.
The man, identified as Salem Khalil
Salem Shammaly, a 23-year-old resident of Shujaiyeh, had been trying to reach
his home in an attempt to find family members, according to
a report issued by VICE News.
“He couldn’t reach any of them over
the phone. The cellphone network has been down in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood
since the invasion began. We haven’t been able to reach anyone there,” a witness, Joe Catron, said.
“We were in an area with rescue
workers from the municipality. He knew we were with ISM and asked us to go
along with him. We were pretty deep into Shujaiyeh, near the buffer zone. There
was a clear column of sight from the buffer zone toward [Shammaly]. If anyone
stepped into the sniper’s line of sight, they risked getting hit. None of us
could do anything to help him.”
Rina Andolini, another ISM activist
in the video, told VICE News, “No doubt if we tried to retrieve the
body we would have been shot too. He was not moving when we left the scene.”
The attack occurred as volunteers
and rescue crews were attempting to uncover bodies during an announced
ceasefire after a day of the most intense violence and
destruction so far in the 14-day operation.
The activist organization
International Solidarity Movement, which shot and uploaded the video online,
described it in a statement:
“The Israeli military just shot a
Gazan man trying to reach his family, during an announced ceasefire. He was
with a group of municipality workers and international human rights defenders
who were attempting to retrieve injured people in the Shujaiya neighborhood….
They shot him, and then continued to fire as he was on the ground. We had no
choice but to retreat. We couldn’t reach him due to the artillery fire and then
he stopped moving.”
Human rights organizations and
international bodies have criticized Israel for the mounting civilian death
toll since the military operation began in Gaza two weeks ago. Médecins Sans
Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement yesterday, “Since
the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza strip, the majority of
the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians, and medical workers are also coming
under fire.”
MSF also reported instances of the
Israeli military shelling or shooting at paramedics and ambulances. The United
Nations has documented that the vast majority of those killed in this onslaught
have been civilians.
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