The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago [USA] and Munich [Germany]- Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

The names of survivors and witnesses have been changed due to security concerns 

Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa district on 26 November 2023, on the third day of a truce between Israel and Hamas. Photograph: Omar El-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

Hoda Osman and Emma Graham-Harrison

Tue 9 Sep 2025 11.50 EDT

Last modified on Tue 9 Sep 2025 17.21 EDT

Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza.

“That was my first elimination,” he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.

Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.

“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”

A five-month investigation by the Guardian, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel and ZDF has identified six people shot by Israeli snipers on 22 November 2023. And through interviews with survivors, witnesses and relatives, reviews of death certificates, medical records and geolocated images we revealed how a family from Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood was torn apart in a few hours by men who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany.

Israeli snipers killed four members of the Doghmosh family that day, and injured two others. Their story illuminates patterns of killing by Israeli troops, who have repeatedly treated unarmed men between 18 and 40 in Gaza as targets.... READ MORE   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich

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Raab and Graetz’s location has been traced from photos and videos taken by Israeli soldiers showing the two snipers aiming their weapons through a window and a hole in the wall.  PHOTO

Footage from inside shows graffiti with devil horns, the squad’s unofficial logo.  VIDEO

Family members say they recognised Salem Doghmosh, who was shot dead as he tried to retrieve the body of his brother Mohammed. PHOTO

Youssef says he recognises himself, walking with his hands in his pockets beside Mohammed moments before he was shot dead. PHOTO

Witnesses including family members say this footage shows Mohammed Farid moments before he was shot dead PHOTO