Western-supported proxies: Zionists in occupied Palestine, and sectarian terrorists (ISIS, al Qaeda and affiliates) in Syria, murder children as policy.
In a 2018 interview, Israeli Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika Fogel admitted:
“I know how these orders are given. I know how a sniper does the shooting. I know how many authorizations he needs before he receives an authorization to open fire. It is not the whim of one or the other sniper who identifies the small body of a child now and decides he’ll shoot. Someone marks the target for him very well and tells him exactly why one has to shoot and what the threat is from that individual. And to my great sorrow, sometimes when you shoot at a small body and you intended to hit his arm or shoulder, it goes even higher.” (1)
More recently, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina who has worked in Gaza, described how Zionist snipers shoot children, saying, “No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by ‘the world’s best sniper.’” His observations are echoed by fellow surgeons, thus contradicting any notion that the children were somehow killed by mistake.
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Reporter: When were you in Gaza?
Dr Mark Perlmutter: End of April, for the first couple of weeks of May.
R: Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an Orthopaedic Surgeon from North Carolina and Vice President of the International College of Surgeons, volunteered in Gaza.
R: So, of all the disaster zones you’ve seen, how does Gaza compare?
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: All of the disasters I have seen combined, combined, 40 mission trips, 30 years, Ground Zero, earthquakes, all of that combined, doesn’t equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians, in just my first week in Gaza.
R: And when you say civilians, is it mostly children?
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: Almost exclusively children. I’ve never seen that before. Never seen that. I ’ve seen more incinerated children than I’ve ever seen in my entire life combined. I have seen more shredded children in just the first week.
R: Shredded.
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: Shredded.
R: What do you mean?
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: Missing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority. We’ve taken shrapnel as big as my thumb out of eight-year-olds. And then there’s sniper bullets. I have children that were shot twice.
R: Wait, you’re saying that children in Gaza are being shot by snipers?
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: Definitively. I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest, I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately, and directly on the side of the head, in the same child. No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper. And they’re dead-center shots.
R: In fact, more than 20 doctors recently in Gaza also told Sunday Morning about gunshot wounds to children. One American doctor told us he even reviewed CT scans to confirm what he saw because he, quote, “didn’t believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.”
Some shootings have been captured on video. The Israel Defense Forces declined our requests for an on-camera interview. But in an email, a spokesperson told CBS news, quote, “The IDF has never, and will never deliberately target children”, adding, quote, “remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks”.
And the IDF stressed that it calls for the evacuation of civilians from combat zones.
The UN reports that to date, more than 80% of Gaza’s population has been displaced and the majority of its buildings destroyed. A reality which has taken its own toll on the well-being of children.
R: What about the emotional wounds?
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: How can you measure that? I can’t measure my own. How do you be an orphan watching your family, you know melted in front of you and shredded in front of you, how do you fix that, ever fix that?
R: In fact, so many Palestinian children have had family members killed, that doctors created a shorthand term, WCNSF, Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.
Last month speaking in Washington D.C., (American Physicians Eyewitness Account from Gaza) other American doctors echoed Dr. Perlmutter’s calls for help.
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa: We’ve described it as a catastrophe, a nightmare, a hell on earth, its all of these and worse.
Dr. Zena Saleh: We didn’t even have hand sanitizer or alcohol or soap most of the time.
Dr. Adam Hamawy: And while we we’re there we’re listening to, aid is getting in, we’re taking care of civilians, they’re not being targeted and yet we’re witnessing a completely different story.
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: For dozens of miles, we saw 18-wheelers parked bumper to bumper, engines off, outside of Gaza. food or health care could not get in.
R: How many kids are in danger of starvation in Gaza?
Dr. Mark Perlmutter: All of them, absolutely all of them.
R: United Nations experts have accused Israel of carrying out a targeted starvation campaign, but Israeli officials say they’ve allowed the delivery of more than 600,000 tons of food and supplies, quote, “with the goal of bringing as much aid into the Gaza strip as possible”.
Western proxies in Syria, too, have a long history of targeting and murdering children. Why do these terrorists commit such barbarous crimes?
In a recent interview with Basma Qaddour, Syrian political researcher and author Housam Taleb explained that,
“The terrorist groups’ criminal act is similar to what the Israeli occupation is doing in the occupied Palestine. The Israeli enemy targets children and women to terrify people and displace them with the aim of making certain areas free of population either through killing them or forcing them to leave their homes. There is a link between the policy being adopted by terrorists groups in Syria and Israeli enemy in Palestine and Lebanon. They have the same terrorist mind.” (2)
The horror that is the current Western/Zionist perpetrated genocide in occupied Palestine is a continuum of the horror that the West and its proxies have been inflicting on prey countries such as Syria for years. The “mechanisms of terror” are the same.
The targeting and slaughter of civilians, including children, is a Western/Zionist military policy designed to displace and annihilate prey populations.
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Notes
(1) Ali Abunimah, “Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms.” Electronic Intifada, 22 April, 2018. (Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms | The Electronic Intifada) Accessed 14 October, 2014.
(2) Basma Qaddour, “Interview with Syrian Researcher Housam Taleb.” 14 October, 2024, Voices from Syria. (Interview with Syrian Researcher Housam Taleb/ By Basma Qaddour – Mark Taliano (marktanliano.net)) Accessed 14 October, 2024.
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