'42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters

Over 200 Palestinians were killed and nearly 8,000 were injured during almost two years of weekly protests at the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli army snipers tell their stories

I know exactly how many knees I’ve hit, says Eden, who completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces as a sniper in its Golani infantry brigade six months ago. For much of the time, he was stationed along the border with the Gaza Strip. His assignment: to repel Palestinian demonstrators who approached the fence.

“I kept the casing of every round I fired,” he says. “I have them in my room. So I don’t have to make an estimate – I know: 52 definite hits.”

But there are also “non-definite” hits, right?

“There were incidents when the bullet didn’t stop and also hit the knee of someone behind [the one I aimed at]. Those are mistakes that happen.”

Is 52 a lot?

“I haven’t really thought about it. It’s not hundreds of liquidations like in the movie ‘American Sniper’: We’re talking about knees. I’m not making light of it, I shot a human being, but still …”

Where do you stand in comparison to others who served in your battalion?

“From the point of view of hits, I have the most. In my battalion they would say: ‘Look, here comes the killer.’ When I came back from the field, they would ask, ‘Well, how many today?’ You have to understand that before we showed up, knees were the hardest thing to rack up. There was a story about one sniper who had 11 knees all told, and people thought no one could outdo him. And then I brought in seven-eight knees in one day. Within a few hours, I almost broke his record.”

Much more;

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-42-knees-in-one-day-israeli-snipers-open-up-about-shooting-gaza-protesters-1.8632555

EU to fork over another €500 million to the Turkish regime to stop migrants

The European Commission is currently preparing to hand over an additional 500 million euros in aid to Ankara to help with so-called “Syrian refugees” to ease growing tensions with the increasingly belligerent and unhinged Turkish regime.

As more and more reports come out, however, it has become increasingly clear that very few of the migrants who are attempting to cross into Greece from Turkey are actually Syrian.

Less than two weeks ago, CNN Greece reported on 252 persons who were arrested trying to illegally cross into Greece from Turkey. Of those who were arrested, 64 percent were Afghani, 19 percent were Pakistani, 5 percent were Turkish, 4 percent were Syrian, 2.6 percent were Somalian, and those from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Egypt comprised 5.4 percent of the arrestees

Despite the data, AFP learned on Thursday that the European Commission has prepared a new aid package of 500 million euros for “Syrian refugees” in Turkey, RTBF reports.

Apparently, the 500 million euros will ‘complement’ the 6 billion that already has been planned to be disbursed to the Turkish regime under the 2016 EU-Turkey agreement. The money will be used to finance programs implemented by NGOs to aid the 3.6 million migrants currently being housed in Turkey.

On Wednesday, following his trip to Ankara, European Foreign Minister Josep Borrell announced the release of 170 million euros in emergency aid “for the most vulnerable in Syria”.

This emergency funding stands apart from the 500 million euros that will be allocated to help migrants in Turkey. So far, of the 6 billion euros agreed upon in the EU-Turkey deal, 4.7 billion have been committed, with 3.2 billion already having been disbursed, per the European Commission.

Following a string of threats made against Europe since last fall, the Turkish regime on February 28th finally made good on its promise to ‘open the gates‘ and announced that it would open its border and permit any and all migrants from the Middle East to pass through to reach Europe.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/eu-to-fork-over-another-e500-million-to-the-turkish-regime-to-stop-migrants/