A group of men try to help a 13-year-old boy who was injured on the ground. When they reach it, there is a second explosion. The men flee and the boy dies. The video was recorded near Jabalia.
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A 13-year-old boy, lying on the ground, asks for help. A group of men approach, some putting their hands on their heads and signaling to other people to come help move the child and kneel beside him. You can see that the boy is injured. An explosion occurs a few meters from where they are and the men flee, trying to take the child with them, but failing.
These are the images seen in a 48-second video captured by Palestinian journalist Wafaa Thaher last Friday. The video was shared with the Washington Post, which confirmed its veracity. The video was recorded in front of Thaher’s parents’ house on Nafaq Street in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Jabalia camp.
After the explosion, the chamber goes dark for a few seconds, as Thaher tells his father to take cover. Shortly after, he returns to film the street, where the child, who a few seconds ago was waving his arms, is now motionless and the almost deserted street, after the people who helped him fled. “I’m glad he died, he was in pieces,” says Thaher’s father.
The boy, identified as Mohammed Salem, He died from his injuries. Another boy, 14 years old, was killed by the second explosion. – captured on video. Both deaths were confirmed by paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
The questions Thaher asks in the video: “Why did they hit him?” — were repeated by an Israeli citizen who shared the Post video on his social networks this Wednesday. “A child was bombed by us and is injured, he screams for help and what is the army doing? Bomb those who came to help. “Why?” he asked. After this topic, the time came also shared by Israeli media..
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) limited themselves to stating that “they are working to dismantle the military and administrative capabilities of Hamas” and take “Possible precautions to reduce civilian casualties” when the Washington Post asked them the same question.
Palestine Red Crescent spokesman Nebal Farsakh said the organization’s ambulances were already near the scene when the second explosion occurred, confirming the use of an attack tactic known as “double tap“: A first attack is launched and when civilians and emergency teams come together to help, a second attack is launched, maximizing the number of casualties.
Israeli bombing of Gaza hospital kills 15
A short distance away, in Jabalia, medical teams report other terrorist scenes: three hospitals were the target of direct attacks by the IDF, who fired on rescuers in ambulances outside the hospitals and people trying to break the blockade of Israeli soldiers in the region they were shot dead. The Israeli siege of Jabalia has lasted 19 days and 770 people have been killed and another 1,000 injured, according to data from the Gaza Communications Office, cited by Al Jazeera.
Source: Observadora
