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This powerful report looks at the alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza War. We show blindfolded children being used as human shields alongside innocent civilians and medics being targeted. Mounir's eyes search around the old house as he recounts the events of 16th January, when a rocket fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle killed his sister, her husband and four of her children. The scene he says will never leave him. 'We found Mohammed lying there, cut in half. Ahmed was in three pieces; Wahid was totally burnt – his eyes were gone. Wahid's father was dead. Nour had been decapitated. We couldn't see her head anywhere.' The attack on this home in Gaza City is just one of more than a dozen incidents recorded by Amnesty International where Israel's unmanned aerial vehicles killed civilians.
The Attar brothers' ordeal began on 5th January when Israeli troops entered the town of Attartra, 1.2 miles (2km) from the border with Israel, and began firing into their house. Fourteen-year-old Al'a al-Attar, Ali, 15, and Nafiz, 16, were led away blindfolded and at gunpoint in single file as the gunfire carried on around them. At one point the boys were forced to march in front of Israeli tanks. 'They would make us go first, so if any fighters shot at them the bullets would hit us, not them,' said Al'a. They were then forced to kneel in a makeshift Israeli encampment for 3 days and 3 nights as tanks fired off shells around them. Human rights groups believe they were held there to deter Palestinian fighters from attacking.
Medical staff and ambulance drivers who attempted to assist casualties of the Israeli invasion of Gaza have said that they were attacked by Israeli forces while carrying out their jobs. On 4th January four medics were killed in two accidents. The first saw paramedics Khaled Abu Saada and Arafa Abdel Daym hit by an Israeli tank shell packed with 8,000 flechettes ‑ dart-like nails ‑ as they moved one of three wounded civilians into their ambulance. The patient died instantly; the paramedic died on the way to hospital. Saada was thrown to the ground with three flechettes in the back of his head. 'I picked myself up and found Arafa kneeling down with his hands up in the air and praying to God, his body was riddled with darts,' he said. 'The patient was in pieces, his head was missing. I was hysterical.' Guardian Films
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