{"id":11322,"date":"2018-08-13T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2018-08-13T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T02:27:08","slug":"secret-israeli-military-report-reveals-drone-killed-four-boys-on-gaza-beach-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11322","title":{"rendered":"Secret Israeli military report reveals drone killed four boys on Gaza beach in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h2>Secret Israeli military report reveals drone killed four boys on Gaza beach in 2014<\/h2>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1355301\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: A confidential Israeli military police report has revealed how a drone strike killed four Palestinian boys playing on the beach in Gaza in 2014.<br \/>The report obtained by The Intercept explains how the actions of air force, naval, and intelligence officers led to killing four cousins \u2014 ages 10 and 11- after they were mistaken for being Hamas militants.<br \/>The killings took place during Israel\u2019s Operation Protective Edge, a 50-day offensive against Gaza iwhich killed 1,391 civilians, including 526 children.<br \/>The attack in 2014 was carried out by an Israeli armed drone that chased the boys, the report said.<br \/>The secret document includes testimony from drone operators, intelligence officers and commanders who were involved in the attack.<br \/>A day before the attack, an Israeli surveillance drone had identified a small shipping container on a jetty and had destroyed it. Israel claimed the shipping container was used by Hamas naval commandos to store weapons.<br \/>The next day, a figure was spotted entering the container attacked the previous day.<br \/>The Israeli military then used a drone to attack it, killing the person who approached the jetty.<br \/>The report said that after the first boy was killed by a missile, the drone operators told investigators they had sought clarification from their superiors on how far along the beach they could pursue the fleeing survivors.<br \/>Though the report says they never got an answer, the operators sent a second strike, killing the other three children.<br \/>The IDF initially thought the mission was a \u201cgreat success,\u201d thinking that it had targeted four Hamas militants, one naval officer reportedly said during investigation.<br \/>But the attack happened in broad daylight, and was witnessed by international journalists staying in a hotel in the area that overlooks the beach.<br \/>It soon became clear that those targeted were four children, an incident that stirred massive global outrage.<br \/>The report obtained by The Intercept said the air force officer who coordinated the attack told investigators that they could not \u201ctell they were children.\u201d<br \/>The secret report reveals that the drone operators treated the jetty as a free-fire zone on the mistaken assumption that it was off-limits to anyone but militants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Israeli military report reveals drone killed four boys on Gaza beach in 2014 CAIRO: A confidential Israeli military police report has revealed how a drone strike killed four Palestinian boys playing on the beach in Gaza in 2014.The report obtained by The Intercept explains how the actions of air force, naval, and intelligence officers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}