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Gaza surgeon describes drones targeting children (www.bbc.com)

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Giving evidence to the parliamentary International Development Committee, he broke down as he described children's accounts of being shot by quadcopters. Labour MP Sarah Champion, who chairs the committee, said his evidence was "profound and deeply chilling". The 62-year-old surgeon told MPs: "What I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area and then the drones would come down." His face shook with emotion as he paused for several seconds to compose himself. He continued: "The drones would come down and pick off civilians - children. "We [were] operating on children who would say: 'I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me.' "That's clearly a deliberate act and it was a persistent act - persistent targeting of civilians day after day."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I really wish my government would stop supporting Israel. Whatever their neighbors decide to do after that, the Israelis have earned tenfold.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

I hope for limitless aid to the Palestinians to help them recover and let the Israeli govt rot in endless boycotts, sanctions and complete divestment by all foreign entities.

They should be shunned internationally so only other pariah states like North Korea will deal with them. Unfortunately for at least the next 4 years or more that is unlikely to happen and the most I hope for is that Palestinians survive long enough to be given their homeland back when a reckoning comes.