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Secret Report Reveals How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Children in Gaza

• Free Thought Project

(CD) A secret report by the Israeli military police—obtained by The Intercept's Robert Mackeyreveals that a week into Israel's Operation Protective Edge in 2014, "air force, naval, and intelligence officers" mistook four 10- and 11-year-old boys who were playing on a beach in Gaza for Hamas militants and killed them by firing missiles from an armed drone.

While "hacked Israeli surveillance images provided to The Intercept by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden showed an Israeli drone armed with missiles in 2010," Mackey notes that "the Israeli government maintains an official stance of secrecy around its use of drones to carry out airstrikes"—meaning this report provides perhaps "the most direct evidence to date that Israel has used armed drones to launch attacks in Gaza."

The 2014 attack on the four boys, which occurred in the middle of the afternoon, provoked outrage the world over after it was documented by several international journalists staying in the area, who captured photographs of the dead children on the beach. It was initially suspected that Israel had launched the missiles from naval boats.


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