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Israeli soldiers are using teenage boys near U.S.- and Israeli-backed “aid” sites in Gaza as “target practice,” according to a British doctor who recently provided care in the Palestinian territory.

Nick Maynard, a consultant surgeon at Oxford University hospital, has said in recent interviews with Zeteo and other media that he and other doctors in Gaza have noted a pattern of injuries in Israeli shootings of aid seekers at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites. Groups of boys, ranging from ages 11 to 16, will come into the hospital with gunshot wounds all on a specific part of the body, Maynard says.

“There were clusters of particular body parts being injured on particular days,” Maynard told Zeteo on Sunday. “One day, they would be coming in predominantly with gunshot wounds to the head or the neck. Most of them died, clearly. The next day, there’d be gunshot wounds to the chest, the next day, the abdomen, the next day, the legs or the arms.”

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