IDF Sniper Admits On Instagram To Murdering 13 Gaza Children

[Galraedia]

An Instagram post by an Israel Defense Forces sniper boasts of murdering 13 Gazan children in one day. An IDF Combat Engineering Corps Soldier, specifically, David D. Ovadia posed with a Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle.

Ovadia posted his comments on the Instagram account of Palestinian Sherrii ElKaderi.

The image was quickly screen captured in case Ovadia came to his senses and realized that he could be prosecuted for his admission of war crimes. It is unclear and perhaps unlikely that the Barrett was used in the commission of such crimes, as this weapon is usually reserved for the best of the best marksmen. In any event, Ovadia is in active deployment and openly confesses to killing Gazan civilian children. While not specifying what weapon he used, the posting of himself with the .50 caliber rifle was obviously meant to be visually intimidating to Palestinians.

In the mean time, while more information is gathered on Ovadia, the “hacktivist” group “Anonymous” took control of his Instagram account, deleting it entirely. For “good measure” Anonymous sources said that they hacked the websites of the Mossad intelligence agency in Israel “for the brave IDF Sniper”, in reference to Ovadia. By 11:30, they had taken down the Israeli Ministry of Defense as well, and similarly attributed it as a response to Ovadia’s confessions.

Read more: http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/07/idf-sniper-admits-on-instagram-to-murdering-13-gaza-children/

Jail Time For Israeli Sniper Who Bragged About Shooting Children

For her part, ElKaderi has tirelessly confirmed the post by the IDF soldier, even who boasted of murdering 13 Gazan children in one day. An IDF Combat Engineering Corps Soldier, specifically, Ovadia posed with a Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle, taunting the Palestinian ElKaderi with the now famous screen captured post.

As we said from the beginning, it was unclear and perhaps unlikely that the Barrett was used in the commission of such crimes, as this weapon is usually reserved for the best of the best marksmen. But Ovadia’s posting of himself with the .50 caliber rifle was obviously meant to be visually intimidating to Palestinians.

As Israeli, Iranian, European and pretty much everyone but U.S. media outlets (save the International Business Times), took our report seriously, the IDF began doing an investigation of their own. Ovadia’s initial plea was that his account had been “hacked”, a claim which many proponents of the IDF incursion into Gaza quickly jumped on, as we had reported the “hacktivist” group ”Anonymous” took control of his Instagram account, deleting it entirely after our report first broke.

Ovadia thought that would be the end of it. Within hours, armies of self-described “debunkers” flooded social media, claiming that this was a “hoax”. But the IDF investigators still smelled something funny about Ovadia’s professions of innocence. They pressed on with their questioning, only to catch him in a number of lies. Finally, Ovadia confessed to having made the post, and quickly deleting it once it was clear he was going to get in trouble for his hateful comments.

Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/08/jail-time-for-israeli-sniper-who-bragged-about-shooting-children/

[JackRiddler]

1. It's probably not true.

It's expressing an underlying truth about attitudes within the IDF and Israeli society, however.

[customerserviceguy]

46. An overly aggressive circumcision? n/t

[Galraedia]

6. It still doesn't change the fact that he admitted to killing 13 children.

Which is a pretty messed up thing to publicly brag about. Whether or not he did it with the weapon he's posing with is irrelevant. He never said he killed them with the weapon in the photo. He's just bragging about having killed 13 children.

[NealK]

36. Absolutely, I totally agree.

[4now]

2. More Israeli war crimes

It is getting hard to keep up with all the atrocities that Israel has committed against it's neighbors.

[oberliner]

7. Making stuff up is not a war crime

But it does get you 30 days in prison if it is this hateful.

[Galraedia]

8. We don't know if he made it up though.

All we know is that he admitted to killing 13 children and that he admits to posting the photo and making the comment that he killed 13 children.

[JackRiddler]

32. Bragging about war crimes is its own evil.

Whether or not the crimes are imagined, whether or not the bragging is actionable. In this case, he's bragging about (presumably) imagined war crimes while participating in a force that's committing real ones. IDF action on that day surely killed thirteen and more children on the flimsiest of pretexts. And whatever he may have done, he's publicly expressing something he feels is socially sanctionable within his in-group.

[JI7]

4. i thought this was fake

[oberliner]

5. He was full of crap

He confessed to making the twitter post and lying about killing children in order to seem like a "tough guy" and to intimidate Palestinian-supporting twitterers.

He rightly received a 30 day jail sentence for his tweet

If you read Hebrew, learn more here:

http://www.mako.co.il/nexter-internet/social-networks-twitter/Article-326094638209741006.htm?sCh=3d385dd2dd5d4110&pId=1898243326

[Galraedia]

10. Ovadia is in active deployment and openly confesses to killing Gazan civilian children.

We don't know if he killed 13 children or if he lied about killing 13 children. All we know is that he is actively deployed, claims to have killed 13 children, lied about posting the comments before confessing to actually making them, and now claims he was just lying about killing 13 children. He's not really the most credible source for honesty.

[oberliner]

12. Not true

He confessed to sending the tweet and said the content of the tweet was bs.
Far from "openly confessing to killing Gazan civilian children" - he has in fact done the exact opposite.

[Galraedia]

15. He confessed to sending a tweet saying that he killed 13 children

He also openly confessed to killing 13 children in that tweet. I'm not sure what part of that you don't understand but most people would take that kind of thing more seriously. But I guess you must live in Israel where claiming to have murdered 13 Palestinian children while actively deployed is okay.

[Logical]

21. So you believe the retraction 100% but do not believe the initial claim? n-t

[oberliner]

25. He wasn't in Gaza

Elizabeth Tsurkov ‏@Elizrael

IDF soldier who claimed to have killed 13 children is not even in Gaza. He was sentenced to 30 days in military jail

Full article (Hebrew):

http://www.mako.co.il/nexter-internet/social-networks/Article-326094638209741006.htm?Partner=rss

[abelenkpe]

22. Who wouldn't retract such a claim to

Authorities? He's an admitted liar. So good of you and the authorities to believe him only guilty of boasting and not murder. We live in f'd up world if someone who would boast of such atrocities would ever be handed a weapon again.

[oberliner]

24. Have you ever been on Twitter?

There are an endless number of horrible tweets out there. Many of which are BS.

This guy was put in prison for his awful tweet. Most never are.

[4now]

9. I am sure the IDF will thoroughly investigate

[REP]

11. I believe everything I read on Twitter, too!!11

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. Hey. If it's on Twitter... it's twoo. They're not allowed to post things that ain't twoo. n/t

[Galraedia]

16. Because saying you murdered 13 Palestinian children while actively deployed is no big deal.

[REP]

17. On Twitter, I'm Queen Marie of Romania

On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog.

[Galraedia]

19. He already confessed to making that tweet.

[REP]

23. I just confessed to being Queen Marie of Romania

People lie about shit. All the time.

[politicman]

31. feeling like he can boast about it while on active duty is the real issue..

The fact that an Israeli soldier on active duty felt comfortable enough to make that claim whether its really true or not is the main story here.

Israel has been allowed to get away with so much over the years, that its own soldiers think there are no consequences for any actions that they take, whether it be actually killing 13 children or mis-leadingly boasting about killing 13 children.

The fact that an active duty soldier felt like boasting about killing 13 children is the issue, is this consistent with having the most moral army in the world?

[Galraedia]

41. I believe that some guy just admitted to posting on the internet that he killed 13 children.

But I guess admitting to posting a comment bragging on the internet that you killed 13 Palestinian children while actively deployed isn't a big deal to some people.

[Galraedia]

44. An idiot posting about something he may or may not have done.

The fact is that he's actively deployed and bragged about killing 13 innocent children. You don't get to brag about murdering children, say "Opps, no I was just kidding", and then expect everyone to just brush it off like it's no big deal. Hundreds of innocent Palestinian children have been killed this past month and this asshole may or may not have been responsible for intentionally targeting 13 of them. This isn't something you joke about like it's no big deal. It shows a complete lack of discipline in the IDF and disrespect toward those in Gaza that have lost their children.

[Takket]

14. what a charming young man.

[regnaD kciN]

18. I wonder how many minutes in prison he'll get?

[oberliner]

26. 30 days for an instagram post

Not often a person gets sent to prison for one of those.

[Galraedia]

45. Apparently not if you're bragging about murdering 13 Palestinian children while actively deployed

Then you just get to say, "Yeah, I posted that but opps I was just lying" and it's a slap on the wrist. He is an active member of the Israeli military and the Israeli military should show zero tolerance for this kind of behavior. He should be discharged and fully investigated.

[m-lekktor]

20. Joan Rivers would embrace him! nt

[whistler162]

33. In the U.S. that would be

against the 8th Amendment!

[Paladin]

27. How's the Barrett .50 cal. sniper rifle doing?

It's a facetious question on my part---but there sure seems to be a lot of talk about the gun, whether or not it was used, etc.

I hope to hell this matter is investigated and that punishment is meted out, as warranted. Stupid and cruel for that soldier to post that message.

[oberliner]

28. Headline is a lie: Not a sniper, wasn't in Gaza

It was a nasty BS hateful post he made up and has been jailed for.

But this story is gaining traction among those who really want to believe it.

[Fred Sanders]

30. The post acknowledges it is unclear if he was posted in Gaza or was spouting off..in jail?

The sentiment is what remains clear enough indefensible, irrefutable.

Impressive looking weapon though.......

[Fred Sanders]

29. Terrorism by the IDF is part of the strategy.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. Were there 13 corpses to back up this asshole's claim?

[NealK]

37. K&R

This is disgusting.

[awoke_in_2003]

38. Who cares if the Barrett .50 was used?

A well placed shot with the usual Remington .308 has the same results- a dead human.

[Scootaloo]

39. What a charming young man the Light Unto Nations has produced!

[greytdemocrat]

40. Most sniper rifles

have a thing called a scope attached to them...

[msanthrope]

43. Good catch. nt