Shusha
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I have no idea what happened to these boys, but if this story that Chris Hedges tells is true, anything could have happened. He was staying at the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Younis for several days, I think he said he was writing a magazine article. One afternoon his attention was caught by voices calling out in Arabic, which he has some fluency in. Turned out it was a few Israeli soldiers in an armored jeep taunting and cursing the boys. The boys had been playing near the wire fence of the camp. They were playing "soccer" with a ball they had made up with rags. The boys reacted as 10 year old boys could be expected to react. They picked up a few stones and started throwing them at the armored jeep. The soldiers reacted in a way that you would not expect trained professional soldiers to react. They stepped out of the jeep and gunned the boys down with their submachine guns. The children were about 10yrs. old. Hedges spent quite a bit of time among the Palestinians reporting on the conflicts. He says it was not the first time he had seen Palestinian children drew out and shot in this fashion. I think it was in the same article he mentioned he had never seen Hamas use children as "shields".
In this incident he accompanied the wounded to the hospital and swore out a witness statement. Deaths of this type are usually described as "children caught in crossfire" by the Israelis he said.
Can't comment until I research the incident.
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