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Video footage broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers gunning down two Palestinians on the coast of northern Gaza, even as one of them waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric. The video then shows Israeli soldiers burying the bodies with a bulldozer.

Richard Falk, former United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, toldAl Jazeera that the footage provides "vivid confirmation of continuing Israeli atrocities" and spotlights the "unambiguous character of Israeli atrocities that are being carried out on a daily basis."

"The eyes and ears of the world have been assaulted in real-time by this form of genocidal behavior," said Falk. "It is a shocking reality that there has been no adverse reaction from the liberal democracies in the West. It is a shameful moment."

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[–] OccamsTeapot 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

FYI, the IDF regularly uses bulldozers to clear bodies for fear of suicide vests.

Famously very safe to have a bomb go off next go a vehicle you're operating. Just fucking check manually at that point.

And obviously in this situation these people were clearly not on the way to do a suicide bombing but honestly nobody thought that in the first place. This is just a long line of excuses used by a genocidal government to whitewash the most flagrant of their crimes.