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Israeli army acknowledges mistaking bike for rocket-propelled grenade in deadly Gaza strike (www.aa.com.tr)

submitted 6 months ago by Linkerbaan to c/[email protected]

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The Israeli army has admitted to mistakenly targeting two Palestinians who were riding a bicycle in the Gaza Strip.

The army published a video in which it initially said two gunmen were targeted in a drone strike in Gaza City last week for allegedly carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG).

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

"mistake"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

Imagine if it had been an acorn.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

i think the important detail here is, this was the video israel released themselves...

their best video... the one they thought would vindicate their "war on hamas" as not indiscriminately killing civilians, was them bombing civilians...
in an alley, surrounded by residential buildings...

if this is was their best choice, then the worst assumptions must be true...

[–] BeatTakeshi 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Captcha level recognition

[–] Linkerbaan 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

[–] pivot_root 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

— Netanyahu

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

To be fair, both bikes and fences are made of pipes. What else is made of pipes?

Pipe bombs.

[–] HappycamperNZ 2 points 6 months ago

Do you pick #3 square on top?

[–] pivot_root 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

[–] Linkerbaan 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Video of the bombing (NSFL) https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1767631870492119389

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Guy must’ve really been booking it on his bicycle if he got mistaken for a friggen rocket

[–] assassinatedbyCIA 1 points 6 months ago

If you want to be extra horrified look up signature strikes during America’s last round of adventurism in the Middle East. I assure you a lot of innocent people were murdered in those.