Witnesses say Israel is using sniper drones in Gaza and they're shooting civilians
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
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He told parliamentary members what he witnessed, including drones that would come down and "pick off civilians, children. And we had description after description. This is not, you know, an occasional thing. This was day after day after day."
For months, NPR has been collecting eyewitness accounts from Gaza that corroborate Dr. Mamode's testimony, saying the Israeli military has been using sniper drone technology and that they're not just shooting enemies, but also civilians.|
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| 0:00.0 | Nizam Mahmood, a soft-spoken, retired transplant surgeon from England, spent August and September volunteering at Nassar Hospital in central Gaza. |
| 0:10.7 | When we crossed the border, the first thing was really a complete sense of shock. |
| 0:17.8 | That's Mahmood last week, testifying before the UK's Parliamentary International |
| 0:22.9 | Development Committee. You see a landscape that looks as though, it reminded me of Hiroshima |
| 0:29.6 | and Nagasaki, devastation, buildings reduced to rubble for miles around as far as you can |
| 0:35.0 | see, nothing growing, no people, a few... |
| 0:39.3 | Dr. Mahmoud described the designated green zone. |
| 0:42.3 | And a large part of it comprises of tents. |
| 0:46.3 | And when I say tents, some of those are proper tents. |
| 0:51.3 | Many of them are just pieces of carpet and plastic stuck on to sticks. |
| 0:58.1 | And these are in the middle of the road, the side of the road, every possible space. There's no running |
| 1:02.7 | water, no sanitation, no electricity, obviously. At times, overcome by emotion. |
| 1:11.6 | The doctor spoke about what he heard. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, the sound is mainly of two things. |
| 1:16.6 | One is drones. |
| 1:17.6 | So there's constant drones. |
| 1:20.6 | The drones existed before October last year. |
| 1:24.6 | It's been a feature of Palestinian life for some time. But now the drones |
| 1:33.1 | inspire fear, I think, and they inspired fear in me. He spoke about what he saw. So the drones would |
| 1:39.8 | come down and pick off civilians' children. |
| 1:47.9 | And we had description after description. |
| 1:50.0 | This is not, you know, an occasional thing. |
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