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

“When the Sky Is No Longer” from Something About Living a poem by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Published by University of Akron Press April 02, 2024.

When the Sky Is No Longer

by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

 

a womb, prayers now besieged

inside your throat hum over whistles

and shrieks—the long how

puncturing what was. 

 

Silence is the first casualty. 

You no longer fear the clamor,

not because you are brave, but

because you’ve learned that death arrives 

noiselessly, hovering

in the bowels of a missile,

 

that the clamor means

you are alive and someone else is dying. 

You note the bleakness of your own heart 

wanting to live in spite of this.

 

“When the Sky Is No Longer” from Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Published by University of Akron Press April 02, 2024.
Copyright © 2024 by Lena Khalf Tuffaha.
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.

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Outcry over Israeli soldier's photo of boy in crosshairs: "Every Palestinian mother is concerned for her child ..."

Israeli Sniper Posts Pic of Child in Crosshairs

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/outcry-over-israel-soldiers-photo-of-boy-in-crosshairs/

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:16 GMT

Source: reuters // Reuters 

JERUSALEM, Feb 19 (Reuters) - An Israeli soldier has provoked an outcry by publishing a photograph that appeared to show the back of a Palestinian boy's head seen through the crosshairs of a rifle.

Israel's army said on Tuesday it would hold an investigation into the conduct of the soldier, who posted the picture on the online photo-sharing website Instagram.

Israeli media identified the soldier as a 20-year-old conscript serving in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian officials, who want the West Bank as part of a future state, condemned the publication of the photograph, saying it showed Israeli forces believed they could act with impunity.

"Every Palestinian mother is concerned for her child ... because of the picture that is now known and seen worldwide," said Palestinian government spokeswoman Nour Odeh on Tuesday.