Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza.
“That was my first elimination,” he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.
Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.
“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”
When he goes back to the US, he should be held accountable for murder and war crimes, if the US has any credibility left, that is.
So he was raised safely in a multi-cultural democracy, but without a hint of self awareness.
I’m not saying any of this is good, but when an article claims something was said, and the following text is not within quotes, they’re making it up.
You are falling for the common mistake of assuming IDF mercenaries would not admit their crimes on video.