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[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The main Machine gun in the Merkava is an m2 browning with the fire rate of 450-600 rounds/min, 335 bullets is 44 or 33 seconds.

[–] Yor@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

firing into a car for even 33 seconds staight is so completely unhinged

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Speaking of, I'm reminded of a journalist who spoke about (our) troops opening fire on vehicles that got too close in Iraq (and she was showing videos of the murders) getting death and rape threats for talking about it. People in the Middle East speed, and no warning shots were even made (these are also civilian streets with other civilian vehicles on the road), instead just opening fire into the driver's seat.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Girl

Hey, an article that doesn't call her a young lady.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Young Palestinian of Militant Age (She/Her)"

[–] Tempo@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe by bullet 336 they might have definitely known for sure that there weren't any civilians. Can't be too careful.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

By that time there certainly weren't. All of it was neatly dispersed over the inside of the car.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My cousin's friend says that he might have seen a comment on an article saying there was a hamas behind the car, so it's justified.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

death to the zionist entity

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of the Nisour Square Massacre in Baghdad by Blackwater mercenaries:

One of the senior military officers who testified before the grand jury, Col. Michael Tarsa, said that he rushed to the scene and came upon a “white Kia with two corpses inside, decimated with bullet holes and on fire,” the report said. He also saw other nearby vehicles “riddled with bullet holes,” even though they were “apparently fleeing the shooting.”

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20170227170643/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/world/middleeast/17blackwater.html