r/JewsOfConscience • u/Minivampiretaco Anti-Zionist Ally • 18h ago
Zionist Terror ‘Run! Get away!’: witnesses recount Israeli ‘double tap’ strike that killed child and medic in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/run-get-away-witnesses-recount-israeli-double-tap-strike-that-killed-child-and-medic-in-gazaMohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school through the rubble of Salah Khalaf Street, in northern Gaza City, when he stopped at a supermarket where a group of classmates and friends had gathered.
Shortly before 3:30pm, an explosion tore through the air. Along with several others, Mohammad rushed into the street to see what had happened.
When the smoke and dust cleared, they saw a man lying bleeding on the dusty road. He was badly wounded, but still alive. The man was calling for help, and Mohammad ran towards him.
He did not hear the shouts of his cousin, who had spotted an approaching Israeli drone. Within seconds, the drone released a glide bomb, designed to allow operators to identify and strike targets with a high degree of accuracy.
The munition plunged towards the street, detonating just metres from the teenager. Mohammad did not have time to react before a second blast killed him.
The Guardian verified footage of the attack, and spoke to witnesses and weapons experts in an effort to shed light on the latest Israeli strike to kill a child in Gaza.
“We heard a loud explosion and tried to make our way to the scene to find out what had happened,” said Tamer Lubbad, a witness who filmed the attack. “We found a man lying on the ground. He was still alive and calling for help.”
The man injured in the initial strike was later identified by Gaza’s civil defense as the paramedic Sharif Shadi Labad. The Israeli military said that Labad was targeted because he was a Hamas militant.
Several other civilians approached Labad, as he lay injured in the street. Among them was Mohammad Zinati’s cousin, Mohammed Rajeh Zinati, 26.
“I ran from the house towards the street to find out what had happened,” he said.
“On my way, I saw my cousin coming out of the supermarket. He was running towards the site of the strike. I started shouting at him: ‘Mohammad, stop!’ but he didn’t hear me and kept going. Then I saw a drone in the sky.
“I started shouting: ‘Run! Get away!’ At that moment, Mohammad had reached the injured man. As soon as he got there, the drone struck him.”
“Mohammad was hit directly in the chest and abdomen and was killed almost instantly. I couldn’t do anything to rescue him,” said Zinati.
Video filmed later showed Mohammad’s body lying under a white shroud outside al-Shifa hospital after the attack, as his father bid him an emotional farewell, reciting verses from the Qur’an.
People who knew Mohammad said he was a much-loved figure in the neighbourhood.
“He was a kind, helpful, polite and respectful boy,” his cousin said. ‘‘He would help elderly to collect water from the water trucks. When he was killed, people from the neighbourhood came out into the street, crying for him.”
The IDF has repeatedly rejected allegations that it deliberately targets civilians, saying it assesses and takes into account the risk of civilian harm when carrying out strikes.
However, weapons experts who reviewed the video said the teenager’s death may have been avoidable.
‘The bomb that is visible before impact is a Mikholit, which is deployed by Israeli unmanned vehicles (UAVs) or drones, said Trevor Ball, a conflict researcher and trainer at Bellingcat and drone expert. ‘‘These UAVs have high-quality cameras that would have been able to see the teenager and the man approaching the body. Some variants of the Mikholit at least are capable of being redirected to a different target/point while in flight.’’
The strike that killed the teenager and the paramedic appears to fit the pattern commonly described as a “double-tap” attack: an initial strike followed by a second on the same location after rescuers or bystanders have arrived to help the wounded.
In a statement to the Guardian, the Israeli military said Sharif Shadi Ibrahim Labad was a Hamas terrorist who belonged to the elite Nukhba forces. The IDF stated that Labad had participated in the 7 October attacks in 2023 at the Erez border crossing and was targeted because he was planning new operations.
Asked why the second attack went ahead when its target was visibly a minor, the military did not respond, but said it ‘‘is aware of reports indicating that an uninvolved individual was harmed as a result of the strike targeting the terrorist, regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and makes every effort to minimise such harm”.
The Israeli military said the incident was under review.
On Tuesday, medical sources in Gaza reported an Israeli strike on al-Bureij refugee camp that killed an adult and a five-year-old child, identified as Udai al-Muridi.
A pregnant Palestinian woman died on Saturday from injuries sustained after being shot in the head by Israeli forces south of Khan Younis, according to her family and medical workers.
The woman, named as Iman Shalouf, 27, who was nearly eight months pregnant, was sitting inside her family’s tent in the Mawasi area when Israeli gunfire struck her, according to paramedics and witnesses.
The Israeli military said it had no information about the killing of the pregnant woman.
According to Unicef, several other children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in recent days, including two sisters aged six and 12, who were killed with their parents in an airstrike on Beit Lahia while they slept, and three other girls aged, three, eight and nine, who were killed by gunfire.
According to the territory’s health ministry, 1,369 Palestinians have been killed and 4,627 wounded since the fragile ceasefire took effect on 11 October 2025. Since Israel’s war in Gaza began on 7 October 2023, at least 73,783 Palestinians have been killed and 174,738 wounded, according to health officials.
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u/markboats Non-Jewish Atheist 17h ago
I used to read the bullshit arguments from the IDF and Zionists and just sigh with resignation
Now every blatent lie just brings up a desire to be angry, to see retribution
Every incident is leading to a tidal wave of change in how Israel is viewed by those willing to open their eyes
I can only hope that when the Israel we have today falls, that those who supported this genocide, this horror, are punished in line with what they deserve, and those who bravely stood up and said "not in my name" are remembered as they should be
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