An Israeli soldier has sparked outrage by posting a photograph appearing to show the back of a Palestinian boy’s head in the crosshairs of his sniper rifle on a social networking site.
The context of the picture, posted on the personal Instagram site of Mor Ostrovski, 20, could not be verified but the aggressive message is clear. The minarets and Arabic architecture of the village captured in the background suggest the boy and the town are Palestinian. Ostrovski is an Israeli soldier in a sniper unit.
“Israeli massacres in Gaza result in mass civilian killings,” official news agency WAFA, run by the Palestinian government in the West Bank, reported Monday. “At least 515 Palestinians have been killed,” the news agency said.
It’s unclear how many of the dead in Gaza were militants. The United Nations has estimated that 80% were civilians.
More than 83,000 Palestinians have taken refuge in U.N. facilities.
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