UN Human Rights Council releases report saying Israeli snipers deliberately targeted Palestinian “unarmed children, journalists and the disabled in Gaza.” Israeli snipers were equipped with high-powered scopes that allowed them to see what they wee shooting at.
[Democracy Now spoke] with Sara Hossain, a member of the U.N. independent commission that led the Gaza investigation.
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SARA HOSSAIN: We are saying that they have intentionally shot children, they have intentionally shot people with disabilities, they have intentionally shot journalists, knowing them to be children, people with disabilities and journalists. And some of the children—not all of the children are visibly children perhaps, but many of them are. As Commissioner Murungi just said, the journalists were all marked with press vests, that we investigated. And the people with disabilities, as I said, a double amputee in a wheelchair, a person using crutches, they were visibly that. And they’ve been shot at by snipers, who also have spotters available with them, who have very high-level technology available to see who is out there in the field.
