Key findings
- Fifteen international doctors told de Volkskrant that during their work in hospitals in Gaza, they saw children aged 15 years and younger with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. According to the most conservative count, they collectively saw 114 children with such wounds, the majority of whom have died.
- Eyewitnesses told the doctors that the bullets mostly came from Israeli army (IDF) snipers or drones.
- According to former commander of the Dutch land forces Mart de Kruif, the chance that these were accidental hits is negligible, since the doctors describe more than a hundred cases.
- Nine doctors told de Volkskrant that they had seen wounds possibly caused by controversial fragmentation weapons.
- The Israeli army refuses to answer questions about shooting at children and says it neither possesses nor uses fragmentation weapons.
- At the bottom, you can read more about how this article was produced.
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