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TIL israel government is using small quadcopters equipped with guns to shot at people including children
(costsofwar.watson.brown.edu)
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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wait till you know how they harvest organs and skin (yes skin) of dead Palestinian children.
source?
This definitely harkens back to blood libel, but also if you're gonna murder people so you can take their shit why draw the line at just taking their land when you can get a lot of money for their organs. It'd be a waste not to on a purely logical point of view. Fucking monsters.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Nothing new they been targeted children since the crearion of the illigitimate state
Using manhacks straight out of Half-Life 2 to do it is new, though.
I think the implication here, or what I picked up from the article was that these quadcopters potentially did not have humans in the “kill chain”
They've been using these for years already in Gaza, but the more coverage the better
Also the drones can play sounds of crying children from speakers to get adults to come out in search of injured children, then shoot them.
Also spraying Glyphosphate (a known cancer inducing biocide) across all the crops in the area to poison the plants and the people, along with using White Phosphorus (an incendiary weapon banned under the Geneva convention due to it being so good at causing third degree burns and fires that cannot be put out, along with poisoning the ground and water.) on Lebanese and Gazan villages and refugee camps.
Is it really worse if it's done with drones ? Or are you just learning about the children massacres ?
Drones firing bullets and hunting people around it's something i've seen only in videogames, i believe this weapon is a turning point that will change society, we are going to see drones flying around cities capable of shooting at people, in gaza they are already seeing them.
Isn't this what all the experts signed against?
- After reading the report: To me this sounds not really credible. Stabilising and aiming a quadcopter outside is difficult and doing that with a weapon a dozen meters away pointing at a child is even harder. And why just target children with it? The group of persons that will likely get you into very bad publicity? The whole report is also based on 5 alleged cases (in one case the kid was run over by a car?). There is also no image of a CT scan, photographic evidence of a quadcopter with a gun or other evidence anywhere in the report. I think that it's more likely these have been "normal" deaths and a quadcopter was only present in the area.
- The only posts of you to this community are about Gaza. Looks like a violation of rule #5 to me. Maybe posts such stuff inside the corresponding communities but not here.
If you look at it from the top side it looks "copterish". If you look at it from the genocide, well...
.. then it looks Israeli.