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As people attempted to slowly advance to the aid site from the Al-Alam roundabout, more than a dozen witnesses interviewed by CNN described the IDF opening volleys of intense fire on the crowd starting as early as 3:30 a.m.

Robert Maher, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Montana State University, who specializes in forensic audio analysis, examined the footage for CNN and said that the bursts of gunfire were at a rate of 15 and 16 shots per second (or 900 and 960 per minute), fired from a distance of about a quarter of a mile (450 meters).

Trevor Ball, a former US Army senior explosive ordnance disposal team member, said the rate of fire was consistent with the FN MAG, a heavily-used machine gun in the Israeli military’s arsenal. The FN MAG is commonly equipped on the IDF’s Merkava tanks, which several eyewitnesses said they saw open fire on the crowds.

Doctors working at Nasser Hospital shared photos with CNN of the bullets retrieved from patients injured and killed in the attack, which weapons experts say appear to match the type of ammunition used in the Israeli military’s machine guns. “This bullet is consistent with the NATO standard 7.62mm M80, which would be fired by IDF 7.62x51mm weapons, including the Negev 7.62 and FN MAG,” Ball said of one of the images.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is, of course, sensible and necessary to adhere to journalistic standards and to check sources objectively, but the outcome in this case is essentially predetermined: The Israeli representatives lie constantly and do everything in their power to cover up their crimes against humanity.

One should assume this from the outset and turn the tables: Israel should provide evidence that they are not lying.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Why do the Western media take Zionist claims as anything other than a lie? They literally never cite Russian official explanations. They literally never quote what unhinged, depraved and openly genocidal things that israeli politicians say to their own public in Hebrew.

This cherry picking of Zionist propaganda has to stop.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 5 points 2 days ago

That's nazis actions

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago

Merkava tanks, another weapon of death and destruction that literally profanes a holy concept. They plan to ascend through genocide.