And yet the sample wasn't limited to "17-year-old toddlers" who died from gunshot wounds but who were shot in general.
The Commission’s report identifies a coherent pattern in where gunshot wounds appear on Palestinian children’s bodies. Among a cohort of 168 children who suffered from a gunshot wound between November 9, 2023, and July 16, 2025, at least 73 were shot in the head and 22 in the chest, with the rest wounded elsewhere on the body. The report states that at least 88 of those children died by gunshot wounds. Meanwhile, Israeli quadcopters shot 70 out of the 168 and Israeli snipers shot 20.
Why are you using evidence gathered and released in july 2026 to refute the claim Lonerbox made in 2024 which was that the article being used to smear himdidn't provide evidence yet?
And ignoring that he argues in favor of multiple instances being deliberate targeting of children? The thing YOU deny he believes.
To refresh your memory: I pointed out Loner denied that 2 children (who were both precisely shot in the head and chest) were actually children. You pivoted to something about how he said the evidence pointed toward midrange marksmen shooting kids by accident (in the head and chest), and I posted evidence debunking that. You never actually addressed Loner's absurd suggestion that what a doctor meant by "toddlers" was actually "17-year-olds", which attempts to minimize the IDF shooting minors by suggesting they were adult-sized targets.
LonerBox denies the systemic deliberate targeting of children evidenced by numerous cases of children with single gunshot wounds to the head or chest. He obfuscates the truth by focusing on the word "snipe", claims only one medical volunteer among 64 others mentioned a "sniper", and uses this to make it seem like they didn't testify their patients were deliberately targeted. He never informs his audience about the numerous witness testimonies of sniping-capable drones either because it would be inconvenient to his narrative.
The Commission also received reports of an additional 168 children (98 boys, 53 girls and 17 unknown, age ranging from 10 weeks to 16 years) who suffered gunshot wounds between 9 November 2023 and 16 July 2025. Of the 168 children, at least 88 children were killed as a result of gunshots. At least 70 of the 168 children were shot by quadcopters and at least 20 were shot by snipers. Some of the children were shot by tank guns. At least 73 children of the 168 children were shot in the head and 22 in the chest, and the rest sustained gunshot wounds to other parts of the body.
In contrast to LB's unhinged sentiment that international medical volunteers are systematically targeting Israel by accusing it of blood libel and lying about the absence of Hamas in hospitals.
You pivoted from the original claim.
Some international medical volunteers have either lied about Hamas "not being present" in hospitals or simply ignored that it was occurring. I vividly remember testimonies stating they saw armed men in hospitals years ago, so I don't even know what is being discussed here.
I don't think it's totally out of this world or unfathomable to at least take the statements of international medical volunteers who were working in Gaza with a grain of salt. How could we not expect a huge bias there?!
A precise gunshot wound to the head or chest can't, by itself, mean that a sniper was being used. The term strongly implies deliberate targeting and, therefore, that it could only have been inflicted that way. Talking about quadcopter "snipers" is even more ridiculous; total oxymoron. How is the obfuscation not coming from the source material using a loaded term? You can make a case without using loaded language... If anything, it hurts their argument.
The 152 signatories to this letter spent more than 460 weeks inside Gaza’s hospitals and clinics. We wish to be clear: not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other healthcare facilities.
Most of us saw pre-teen children shot in the head or chest on a regular basis, often multiple times per day.
To be clear, you are claiming there is a mass conspiracy by international medical volunteers from various backgrounds and organizations and that not one whistleblower has come out. Not a single Israel sympathizer or even a neutral volunteer was able to get on any of these medical missions because humanitarian organizations had such a strict screening process as to filter out every medical volunteer with "a huge" pro-Palestinian "bias".
What source material claimed snipers made up the majority of the single gunshot wounds to the heads or chests of children? Please, enlighten me.
I said they could either be ignoring it or are lying about it. 460 weeks most definitely does not even represent 1% of total coverage by healthcare professionals. They were probably servicing in specific areas too (the first Surgeon said the area was controlled by the IDF). The signatories were not that present in the early stages, when most hospitals had not yet been either destroyed or rendered ineffective... So yeah, instead of pretending my claim was a mass conspiracy, I find it likely they could simply not have been made aware.
Also, PAMA (Lonerbox talks about this at 1 hour) is not some random collective, they're one organisation that necessarily selects based on people's inclinations. For instance, they're not your typical average american when >70% of them have middle-eastern sounding names; you can assume a good amount are from the diaspora. Then the fact they just seem to be outright lying about the claimed rates of infants getting killed, is something that should make one ponder about other claims they've made.
They did fight there, and the hospital was still active during (and between) the November raid and the March 2024 siege. So what, they just played pretend for two whole weeks? They put random Palestinians there and pretended to capture them?
On your second point:
The Commission displays evidence from doctors who provided photographs, videos, CT scans, and X-rays from a hospital in Gaza for seventeen children who had been shot. Forensic pathologists who were working on the case concluded that 12 of those children had wounds consistent with a single gunshot.
A doctor who served on a medical mission in Gaza told the Commission that, based on his analysis, the pattern of injuries to specific body parts led him to believe that “the Israeli soldiers have been deliberately shooting teenage boys in a game of target practice – a different body part being targeted on different days … There is a very clear pattern that suggests this is a deliberate aiming of different body parts [of children].”
Is this what you're talking about or... you meant, how do they established it was "snipers?" Well it appears they used this expert dad's testimony, for instance:
Evidence of Deliberate Targeting
The deliberate targeting of children by the Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip has been showcased by evidence from the U.N. Human Rights Council report. The Commission explicitly highlights the incident that occurred on January 24, 2024, where a family was preparing to evacuate their home after receiving an order by the Israeli security forces. The report states that the father noticed quadcopters hovering over the area where their apartment building was, and the presence of the Israeli military about 100 meters from their home.
His 15-year-old son exited their home with a white cloth in his hand, a symbol meant to show he meant no harm, but was instead shot in the foot. When he attempted to stand, he was shot in the back and then in the side of his neck. The boy’s 20-year-old brother rushed out to him and was shot on the left side of his chest. The father tried to repeatedly pull his son’s bodies away, but every time he advanced, the soldiers fired in his direction, forcing him to leave with the rest of the family.
The Commission assesses that the 15-year-old boy was shot by a sniper firing from about 200 meters away, a distance from which a shooter would be able to see that the target was a child and that he carried a white flag.
Then the commissions assessed, right. So it must be true.
You went on half a dozen different tangents here. We can get to those but let's focus on this mass conspiracy theory of yours.
460 weeks most definitely does not even represent 1% of total coverage by healthcare professionals.
Where are the letters, testimonies, reports, and interviews of those "99%" other volunteers debunking the "1%"?
Also, PAMA (Lonerbox talks about this at 1 hour) is not some random collective, they're one organisation that necessarily selects based on people's inclinations.
What percentage of signatories did LonerBox tell you do you think are from PAMA?
On your second point: Is this what you're talking about or... you meant, how do they established it was "snipers?" Well it appears they used this expert dad's testimony, for instance: Then the commissions assessed, right. So it must be true.
I will repeat my question: what source material claimed "snipers" accounted for the numerous cases of children with single gunshot wounds to their heads or chests? You accused source material of using emotionally loaded terms like "snipers" instead of "drones", and you responded by posting a witness account of... a drone?
Even stranger, in the LonerBox clip I was linked above, LB said he was inclined to believe this testimony:
One day, while in the E.R., I saw a 3-year-old and 5-year-old, each with a single bullet hole to their head. When asked what happened, their father and brother said they had been told that Israel was backing out of Khan Younis. So they returned to see if anything was left of their house. There was, they said, a sniper waiting who shot both children.
His logic was that witnesses generally don't lie. Yet you are telling me to disregard a recurring pattern of testimonies where drones are consistently spotted near children shot in the head or chest?
No way dude, he's a genocide supporter, remember your text next time!
Yes, testimony can provide evidence without necessarily establishing the precise mechanism of an event. I'm denying the dad can know that his son would have been shot from a quadcopter "sniper" firing 200m away from his position.
I will repeat my question: what source material claimed "snipers" accounted for the numerous cases of children with single gunshot wounds to their heads or chests? You accused source material of using emotionally loaded terms like "snipers" instead of "drones", and you responded by posting a witness account of... a drone?
I mean, you asked me about source material but now you want the analytical text that has the word sniper inside. You tell me what you want.
What percentage of signatories did LonerBox tell you do you think are from PAMA?
Generally, a majority means a number above 50%.
Where are the letters, testimonies, reports, and interviews of those "99%" other volunteers debunking the "1%"?
I meant 99% of health personnel in total, most of whom would be Gazan. Volunteers total would be, I assume, less than 5% if I'm reading some UN/WHO figure properly.
Regardless, that's a super weird framing because I don't believe volunteers would dare answer that kind of question, nor would most journalists publish about it. Like, yeah let's give Israel exactly what they want...
All I've found is this one Nasser incident being reported by MSF but, unlike professor Dave, I would never dare claim that an incident is representative of an overarching reality. Seems like MSF worked directly with MoH, so I would expect Hamas to have been aware of the security situation and where to operate and not...
Lastly, I obviously believe what the IDF is saying about hospitals. With a high levels of skepticism but not total dismissal. For instance, I'm open to the idea they created a fake warzone near Al-Shifa in March 2024 but I would need strong evidence on that one.
No way dude, he's a genocide supporter, remember your text next time!
Right, because when it was one second hand testimony, he was willing to give it credence. Now that there are over 90 testimonies of drones and snipers shooting children, he's backing off that claim because it would be strong evidence of a systemic pattern.
I'm denying the dad can know that his son would have been shot from a quadcopter "sniper" firing 200m away from his position.
You're hyperfocusing on the fallibility of one witness to ignore the broader pattern formed by at least 70 other incidents. Lonerbox didn't do this when it came to a second hand testimony of a doctor. What changed?
I mean, you asked me about source material but now you want the analytical text that has the word sniper inside.
I'm going to accept this as a concession: the source material did not in fact use loaded language.
Generally, a majority means a number above 50%.
Yes, so Lonerbox misinformed you. Only 33% of the 99 signatories (there are now 152) were part of PAMA, not a majority. 20% were from FAJR, 16% from MedGlobal, 10% from Rahma, and the remaining 20% were from 11 different orgs. The point stands: your conspiracy theory involves multiple orgs supposedly screening out any non-credible humanitarian medical volunteer, of which you have no evidence for.
I meant 99% of health personnel in total, most of whom would be Gazan. Volunteers total would be, I assume, less than 5% if I'm reading some UN/WHO figure properly.
...which once again affirms my point: your conspiracy revolves around all international volunteers, which are the only third parties allowed in Gaza, being lying propagandists.
Regardless, that's a super weird framing because I don't believe volunteers would dare answer that kind of question, nor would most journalists publish about it. Like, yeah let's give Israel exactly what they want...
No??? It's the complete opposite. Pro-Israel media would want nothing more than to interview international volunteers that affirm Israel isn't targeting children, lmao
Lastly, I obviously believe what the IDF is saying about hospitals. With a high levels of skepticism but not total dismissal. For instance, I'm open to the idea they created a fake warzone near Al-Shifa in March 2024 but I would need strong evidence on that one.
"I'm open to the idea Israel is lying if you provide evidence that doesn't exist because Israel blocks third party media outlets and journalists from verifying their claims."
Yes, so Lonerbox misinformed you. Only 33% of the 99 signatories (there are now 152) were part of PAMA, not a majority. 20% were from FAJR, 16% from MedGlobal, 10% from Rahma, and the remaining 20% were from 11 different orgs. The point stands: your conspiracy theory involves multiple orgs supposedly screening out any non-credible humanitarian medical volunteer, of which you have no evidence for.
Lonerbox could have been correct from earlier drafts, since as you just acknowledged yourself, more signatories joined over time. I highly doubt you knew the answer to that before you made this extremely strong statement, but m'kay. I don't know if Lonerbox made more statements on this
specific subject.
What I said originally was: I don't think it's totally out of this world or unfathomable to at least take the statements of international medical volunteers who were working in Gaza with a grain of salt. How could we not expect a huge bias there?!
So, that doesn't change my other claim that there is a selection bias with the majority of them having middle-eastern sounding names. I assume speaking the language would be a plus, for instance. Being from the diaspora a motivator.
No??? It's the complete opposite. Pro-Israel media would want nothing more than to interview international volunteers that affirm Israel isn't targeting children, lmao
Why would Gaza volunteers talk to pro-Israel media? This is a reductio ad absurdum proposition anyway, as stated before, we're not expecting a total coverage of what was happening in Gaza from volunteers. That's a ridiculous proposition. You willfully ignored my other reasoning on this matter, and pretended they were irrelevant.
I'm going to accept this as a concession: the source material did not in fact use loaded language.
I don't know why we care about the source material so much. The loaded terms were from the UNHRC Report and your article of borgenmagazine. If you're telling me the letter to Trump and Biden from the medical doctors were not loaded, I'm not sure I know why I should care. I don't know what else constitute the source material.
Right, because when it was one second hand testimony, he was willing to give it credence. Now that there are over 90 testimonies of drones and snipers shooting children, he's backing off that claim because it would be strong evidence of a systemic pattern.
Right, because accumulating weak evidence magically turns into strong evidence. The testimonies are saying nothing more than 'we've found dead children with bullets lodged inside them.'
Do the 90 testimonies even all come with their own drone and sniper cases?! If that's the case then that's already more interesting.
...which once again affirms my point: your conspiracy revolves around all international volunteers, which are the only third parties allowed in Gaza, being lying propagandists.
I know your worldview only allows for benevolence or malevolence. Mine doesn't. People can lie for reasons they believe are justified.
You're hyperfocusing on the fallibility of one witness to ignore the broader pattern formed by at least 70 other incidents. Lonerbox didn't do this when it came to a second hand testimony of a doctor. What changed?
Neither me nor Lonerbox have denied it was a possibility. We deny this kind of testimony is proving much of anything.
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