Was an 11-year-old girl carrying a bread maker targeted as a terrorist? She's dead and no one seems to know why. MattGutmanABC reports:
Matt Gutman reports on the latest news in the Middle East following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas late last week.Something was off about this one. The explosion punched a beach ball-sized hole in the wall. In a conflict in which thousand-pound bombs were so routinely used, it was comparably tiny.
The next day, our team in Gaza filmed her funeral. Her impossibly small, shroud-covered body was carried on a stretcher through tight alleyways and placed on the floor of Dima's pink-painted bedroom which, due to continued airstrikes, now doubled as a funeral home. The women ululated, and Dima's mother, Dunya, sobbed as she clutched the child's backpack.
That day I reached out to the Israeli military. We sent them the exact location of the explosion site, the time, date and person targeted, pictures of the blast zone and the aftermath video provided by Dima's family. The initial answer came relatively quickly: The IDF said that no drone or Israeli air asset had ever targeted that location. I went at them the next day: What about artillery or tank shells? The answer came back: Negative.
I also showed the pictures to an Israeli pilot who immediately said,"Oh I know what that is ... it's a shell from a naval ship." With that tip, Draper said he knew immediately the provenance of the ordinance:"Israel's new Sa'ar 6 class corvettes have a 76mm OTO Melara deck gun. ... There is a particular round for that gun," he wrote, "the L62 HE-PFF IM84, which incorporates a body of pre-formed tungsten cubes designed to destroy missiles and air targets.
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