Hamas gets too much money. They must to be able to spread their lies so far and wide. This piece in the New York Times claims that IDF soldiers have been shooting children in the head with their rifles.
The article claims that the IDF has been going around Gaza shooting children in the head with their rifles. It shows x-rays of a small caliber bullet in the head of a child. The Israeli army uses the M-16 assault rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO with the M855 NATO spec ammunition. The 5.56 is basically a .22 caliber round, but the M855 is a steel core projectile. It is not armor piercing, but it does penetrate much more than standard full metal jacket ammunition. I fired one at an eight inch thick oak branch about twenty feet away and it went all the way through and even made quite the exit hole. We saw what the 5.56 round can do when Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself from rioters violently trying to steal his rifle from him when he shot one guy in the arm. Damn near blew him arm all the way off.
So. For a child's skull to somehow stop a 5.56 round from going all the way through is a bald faced lie.
"The New York Times has come under fire for publishing a guest essay last week titled "65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza," accusing Israeli soldiers of deliberately shooting Gazan children in the head that included images of X-rays that experts say look doctored.
"One image, which shows a bullet in the middle of a child's skull, was the focus of several of these analyses showing it to have been doctored. The bullet shown, a 5:56 caliber round, was stated by multiple military and forensics ballistics experts to be expected to cause substantially more damage to the skull than was shown."
NYT accused of publishing doctored X-rays in anti-Israel piece
