Last year, Mohammad “Medo” Halimy, a 19-year old Palestinian born and raised in Gaza, briefly became a star on social media for his TikTok page showing his day-to-day life during Israel’s war. “I kept watching videos about Gaza online, and they were all very sad and depressing. Since I am a positive person, I didn’t like any of those videos. So, I decided to create a page on TikTok and start posting my daily life on both TikTok and Instagram, focusing only on the positive aspects,” Halimy said in an interview last summer.
His TikTok page, which showed Halimy cooking, gardening, waiting for water, and spending time with friends, rapidly amassed a large following, growing to nearly 190,000 followers. But Halimy’s online celebrity was cut short last summer, when he was killed by what was reported to be shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike.
Halimy’s death prompted an outpouring of grief from his followers across the world. Initial reports framed his death as collateral damage from an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military, and interviews given by friends of Halimy to the international press also stated that an explosion targeting a nearby car had preceded his death. But an American doctor who treated Halimy in Gaza, attempting to save his life after he was brought into the intensive care unit of Nasser Hospital, said that his wounds were not consistent with shrapnel from an airstrike. Instead, there was a single entry and exit point from his skull.
Why should shrapnel be a different velocity? Trajectory is only velocity based here anyways, so a direct result of the (high) velocity.
It is more like saying a small mammal can also be a cat. Or rather: Scratch marks that are usually associated with cats can also be from a different animal.
How did they keep this doctor from saying anything? Now he does but without mentioning anything about keeping a secret or anything…? That really breaks the story. It does not add up.
They are not going to have assassins right where they airstrike. No matter how crazy they are.
Dude, there’s massive differences between sharpnel and a bullet. The size, velocity, whether it was tumbling or not. Biggest factor here’s tumbling, if a bullet was tumbling, it would make a fucking mess to the target aka Medo, same as shrapnel. The point of a bullet is to have clean entrance and exit wound (if it penetrated all the way thru).