In March 2024, Haaretz published chilling testimonies from Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) snipers who openly admitted their role in Gaza’s slaughter. One sniper confessed: “I killed men and children in front of the aid distribution points in Gaza. I don’t know how many. But they were many.” Another spoke of targeting anyone who “moved in the designated zone” — civilians desperate for food, water, and survival.
These are not isolated incidents. They are windows into a machinery of extermination, executed with precision scopes and military orders, and defended in the language of “security.”
But while the killers speak in the cold arithmetic of body counts, the voices from Gaza tremble with loss, dignity, and despair.
A UN report documented a mother in Rafah, clutching the blood-soaked dress of her daughter, whispering: “She was only six. We stood in line for flour. The sniper’s bullet went through her head. She only wanted bread.”
From Khan Younis, a displaced teacher told Al Jazeera: “Every trip to fetch food is a gamble with death. We know the snipers are waiting, but hunger leaves us no choice. The world watches, and we fall like birds from the sky.”
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) shared the testimony of a medic who watched his colleague gunned down while trying to reach the wounded: “He wore a vest with a red cross. The sniper shot him in the chest, then again when he fell. They wanted to kill hope itself.”
The symmetry is obscene. On one side, soldiers boast of their kills in Israeli newspapers. On the other, grieving parents bury their children in silence, denied even the comfort of global outrage.
When a sniper admits casually to murdering “many” children, and the world shrugs, the crime is not only Israel’s. It belongs to every government that arms it, every leader that shields it, every institution that chooses neutrality over morality.
History will not remember the technicalities of ceasefire negotiations or the evasive language of “both sides.” It will remember the mother’s whisper, the child’s hunger, the sniper’s confession. And it will ask: when the genocide spoke in first person, why did you stay silent?
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