{"id":260497,"date":"2024-04-22T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=260497"},"modified":"2024-04-21T17:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:46:52","slug":"in-gaza-the-sniper-drones-are-crying-like-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/in-gaza-the-sniper-drones-are-crying-like-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"In Gaza the Sniper Drones Are Crying like Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_260498\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/drones-gaza.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260498\" class=\"wp-image-260498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/drones-gaza.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/drones-gaza.webp 1023w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/drones-gaza-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/drones-gaza-768x402.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-260498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Adobe Stock<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>22 Apr 2024 <\/em>&#8211; They\u2019re hunting civilians with armed quadcopters in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The drones <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/occupied-palestinian-territory\/israeli-army-broadcasts-intimidating-sounds-lure-kill-and-forcibly-displace-civilians-nuseirat-camp-enar\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">play recordings of crying babies<\/a> and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them.<\/p>\n<p>This is reportedly happening at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where people live in total darkness at night and have no connection to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Other times the drones play the sounds of explosions and gunshots and rolling tanks, and sometimes songs in Hebrew or Arabic, all to terrorize these refugees hiding in the darkness afraid for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of report that a critical thinker would normally dismiss as absurd atrocity propaganda if it was being made about any other military power, but this is the IDF we\u2019re talking about, and this specific allegation is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1780995215815331974\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretty well-supported<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hind_Gaza?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@Hind_Gaza<\/a> confirmed this is happening: the IDF has quadcopters luring people to them with recordings of the sound of women and children screaming, then firing on them <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ANe4myWLx\" >https:\/\/t.co\/1ANe4myWLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1780995215815331974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >April 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the destruction of Gaza first began I used to read the jarring claims about the horrific things the IDF were doing and often think, \u201cNo, no way. That can\u2019t be the whole story. It\u2019s too cartoonishly evil. There must be some information missing.\u201d Then a few days or weeks later confirmation would come out, showing it\u2019s even worse than I thought before.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t experience that kind of dubiousness when reading such stories anymore. There are only so many atrocities you can see documented, so many videos of IDF troops recording themselves gleefully behaving like monsters, so many hospitals you can see attacked, so many journalists you can see assassinated, before you read a new report about new unfathomable acts of depravity and find yourself saying \u201cYeah, that sounds about right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This baby-crying-sniper-drone story is something else, though. It\u2019s like something out of a weird post-apocalyptic horror movie or something. It\u2019s the kind of information that makes you sort of re-evaluate your previous assumptions about humanity, the world, and the kind of reality we\u2019re experiencing here.<\/p>\n<p>It is really astonishing, how cruel people can be. How cruel a whole nation of people can be made to be, if they\u2019re indoctrinated just right. You <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/the-idfs-war-crimes-are-a-perfect-reflection-of-israeli-society\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spend your whole childhood being indoctrinated<\/a> into the belief that one group of people are inferior to your own and don\u2019t deserve the same rights and treatment your group receives, and before you know it you\u2019re blockading aid trucks from bringing that group food, and playing recordings of crying babies on an assassination drone in order to murder civilians at a refugee camp.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how Nazi Germany happened, it\u2019s how the genocidal apartheid state of Israel has happened, and it\u2019s how the murderous US-centralized empire has happened. It turns out it\u2019s not all that hard to manipulate a population into supporting shocking abuses at mass scale with modern propaganda and indoctrination from early childhood. It turns out the human mind is a lot more hackable than we\u2019d like to believe it is, and that this can be used to unleash living nightmares upon our world a lot more easily than we\u2019re comfortable acknowledging.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the entire western world has been manipulated into accepting nonstop war, militarism, nuclear brinkmanship, imperialism and exploitation as fine and normal, and into assuming that a better world isn\u2019t possible. As long as the powerful are able to manipulate the way a sufficiently large percentage of the population thinks, speaks, acts and votes, we\u2019re going to be stuck in this horrifying dystopia where the sky rains fire upon the innocent, where war profiteers reap vast fortunes from machines which rip apart human bodies, and where sniper drones cry like babies.<\/p>\n<p>We can help weaken the empire\u2019s propaganda machine by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/consciousness-and-dysfunction-cannot\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreading awareness<\/a> of what it\u2019s doing and how it operates, because propaganda only works if you don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening to you. Help people to see the ways in which the mass media are deceiving them, point out all the signs that we live under an empire of lies, and help spread awareness of what\u2019s really true and what\u2019s really possible.<\/p>\n<p>All positive changes in human behavior of any scale are always preceded by an expansion of consciousness. Spreading awareness is the first step toward a healthy world, and we can each do that in our own small way every single day.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. <em>Contact: <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/04\/22\/in-gaza-the-sniper-drones-are-crying-like-babies\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Apr 2024 &#8211; The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":260498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1106,87,865,88,427],"class_list":["post-260497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-drones","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260499,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260497\/revisions\/260499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}