Israeli army's shoot to kill policy

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.699

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Israeli soldiers confirm the policy documented in journal

Derek A Summerfield, honorary senior lecturer (derek.summerfield@slam.nhs.uk)

Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London SE5 8AP

EDITOR—My personal view last October on the Israeli army operations in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, attracted support as well as vilification on bmj.com.1

I noted that two thirds of all Palestinian child fatalities had been caused by small arms fire(from relatively close range), in fully half of the cases to the head or upper torso—the sniper's wound. My statement that “clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or …