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Bahaa Abu Al-Ajeen, 32, set out with his 3-year-old son Rayan to check on their family home east of Deir al-Balah.

After inspecting the house and leaving the area, Bahaa said he was shocked to see Israeli soldiers emerging from a nearby building. “My son was in my arms and crying intensely from fear,” he recalled.

According to his account, he decided to move away from the soldiers in an attempt to calm Rayan and walked approximately 500 meters from the area. Bahaa said that after he had distanced himself, the soldiers began shouting at him to stop. He stated that two shots were fired in his direction but did not hit either him or his son, prompting him to stop out of fear for their lives.

“After I stopped, one of the soldiers knelt down and fired directly at my son,” Bahaa said. “The bullet entered the back of Rayan’s head and exited through his left eye. Moments later, another bullet struck my left leg. When I saw them kill my son, I screamed and asked them, ‘He is a child. Why did you kill him?’”

Bahaa said he attempted to call an ambulance using his mobile phone, but the soldiers confiscated it and prevented him from seeking medical assistance. According to Bahaa’s testimony, Rayan bled for approximately seven minutes before dying from his injuries. He said he pleaded with the soldiers to save his son, but they refused.

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[–] creamfresh@lemmy.world -3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What? The article reads like the author talk to Bahaa in person, but this isn't clearly stated as it is common with first person accounts. So i wondered who actually talk to him.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Unclear from the article but the story of Bahaa has appeared in a other news. This article is a compilation. It also references other cases. Not sure why you care if TruthOut spoke to him directly.

There's tonnes of articles from other mainstream media which similarly reference other articles and I never see any questions about that. Whenever someone starts questioning sources on Palestine articles I am sceptical of their intentions.

[–] creamfresh@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

According to automatically translated titles in search results (auto subs in video is broken for me), this is the source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/reMYxWBELxM

The reporting outlets should reference this, this is bad style and opens up opportunity to flag these stories as falsified anecdotes by propagandists.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

flag these stories as falsified anecdotes by propagandists.

There's only one user in this thread insinuating the sort.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Not really, nobody checks sources anyway. And if you do want to do that you can just open Google

Quoting a source is done if you don't want to take personal responsibility to state something as a fact. But TruthOut has no problem using their reputation to certify the stories of Palestinians.

As long as Israel isn't letting journalists into Gaza, there is no need to verify anything negative about Israel.