The
NYT's Lede column yesterday has a piece which (quite apart from the link to a rather well-done pro-raid satirical video), contains some rather important pieces of the puzzle that haven't been well reported yet in the media frenzy around the raid:
The
Turkish autopsies apparent show that while most of the dead received several hits from 9mm, one was hit in the head and killed by what may have been a crowd dispersal weapon of some sort:
There are several "less lethal" ammunitions in regular IDF use that could conceivably fit that description (RRNM, Roma GG, MA/RA 88), especially if it were fired at close range and/or the submunitions failed to deploy as intended.
All just speculation, of course--it is also possible that the weapon was fired in the chaos of the melee on the deck of the ship. However, it would indeed be a tragic irony if one of the "less lethal" initial warning shots from the air not only proved fatal, but also exacerbated the subsequent violence.
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