FajrThe Middle East Eye news and analysis website carried the report on Wednesday, citing residents of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war.
The locals reported venturing out of their houses to find the source of the sounds before being shot at by the loitering Israeli quadcopters playing them.
“I heard a woman crying and screaming for help, saying, ‘Help me, my son was martyred.’ The sounds were coming from the street and they were bizarre,” said Samira Abu al-Leil, a 49-year-old resident of the camp.
“Some men rushed out to the rescue, only to be shot by the quadcopters that kept roaming all night long,” she added.
Another resident said that, over the previous three days, there had been at least 12 injuries due to quadcopter fire.
“This morning alone, we rescued six people who were wounded in the neighborhood. The injuries were serious: some were shot directly in the head,” the resident said.
According to the residents, the audio recordings also included songs in both Hebrew and Arabic, including children’s songs, sounds of clashes and moving tanks, voices of Palestinian armed men, and voices of local roaming vendors of cleaning products familiar to residents of Gaza.
Israel began taking Gaza under the war on October 7 following Operation al-Aqsa Storm by the territory’s resistance movements, which was launched in response to escalation of the regime’s decades-long campaign of occupation and aggression against Palestinians.
More than 34,000 Palestinians, mostly women, children, and adolescents, have died in the brutal military onslaught so far.
