James Miller was a Welsh filmmaker producing a documentary on the lives of Palestinian and Israeli children affected by the ongoing conflict. He was murdered during the filming of this scene. His film was posthumously released as Death in Gaza.
The context of this scene is that the Israel Defense Forces are bulldozing nearby Palestinian homes, under which it believes are tunnels to smuggle weapons from Egypt. The bulldozers are accompanied by Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) equipped with night vision equipment. The film crew is wearing bulletproof vests and helmets.
In this scene, an APC has parked itself 100 meters away from the house without announcing any intentions. The rest of the scene is self-explanatory.
On May 9 2003, one week after Miller's death, the IDF announced that any foreign national wishing to enter Gaza will need to sign waivers absolving the IDF of any wrongdoing if they are killed or injured by Israeli forces. [
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/israel.palestine/update.html]
The shooter has been identified by the IDF only as Lt. Haib, a Bedouin Arab. The Israeli Advocate General recommended he be disciplined for his actions, but he was acquitted by a commanding officer.
To date, no one has been held accountable for his death.
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vaporlockWAR = TERROR
NordlichReiterThe whole comment is to make no sense, take it or leave it.
Emotional Response:
He didn't die instantly. Goddamn, you don't die instantly. You gurgle, spit, choke, call out, get extremely thirsty, eyes bulge, fingers flex, testicles shrivel, toes curl, and flop about until you don't any more.
The round probably took his head clean off. Young people don't understand what it means to take a life. To see the insides of a skull. A grown man shit his pants. How fragile life is. How mundane conflict is. One instant you are walking down the street the next your body is sliced clean in half by a careening SUV. Its over in an instant.
Yea, you saw it on the TV, or at the movie theater. You didn't see shit, you want to get close to the it? Dig up a book on Homicide photography. Then you may, see what man is really capable of.
Why waste it, its like good chocolate. It melts in the sun, tastes bitter in the cold, and sates the senses when craving.
Rational response:
There are according to LT Col Grossman 2% of, some ordinate amount of, people there are natural born killers. It is even rarer to find those that enjoys it. But it only takes 6 weeks to make a conditioned murderer out of an 18 year old high school graduate.
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bamdrewI watched this documentary a few years back.
Intense to say the least.
I'm upvoting, but I'm not watching this part again.
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