“Snuff videos as a sales pitch”. Raphael boasts of human testing in Gaza death camps

The Australian government rewards rich contracts to the Israeli drone manufacturers Elbit and Raphael, who sled Palestinians to investors. Stephanie Tran Reports.

Israel’s arms manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems published a video showing that an unarmed man was followed and killed by a drone in Gaza, and using images to advertise the weapon responsible for his death.

. videoThe company shows a spike Firefly Loitering Munition Drone, while standing on a man walking alone from the rubble of an area that is sent to the official account of X in X. The drone quietly watches the man quietly before he explodes on him and kills him instantly.

By the way, a young Palestinian girl, Hale It was executed yesterday With a bullet to the head fired by a Quadcopter drone. It is even more strange that Israeli arms manufacturers are captivated about human test laboratories, Gaza’s killing areas.

Spike Firefly Drone, First Introduced by Rafael in 2018It is a light, a lightering lightering ammunition designed for urban war. The drone, which weighs only three kilograms, is thrown out of a tin box and can fly quietly over a target for up to 15 minutes before hitting with high sensitivity.

The drone can be executed remotely with a tablet and the camera supply allows operators to follow the targets in real time.

Accordingly Euro-Med Human Rights MonitorSince October 7, 2023, Israel has been going to drones like fireflies to kill civilians in Gaza, and Quadcopters has been deployed in densely populated settlement areas and refugee camps. The reports document many examples of drones used to assassinate individuals who violate international humanitarian law.

Australia’s financial and military ties with Rafael

Despite the evidence that Rafael is a criminal partner in war crimes, the Australian government continues to deepen its commercial and military ties with the company.

Data from Austnder reveals that since 2007, the Ministry of Defense has given over $ 168 million to Rafael -linked organizations.

42 million dollars of this directly to Rafael Advanced defense systems and a joint venture Varley Rafael 126 million dollars went Started in 2018 Until then, Rafael and Australian engineering firm Varley Group Christopher Pyne.

The most important of these 15 -year missile supply contract It was given in 2023 worth 108 million dollars. The contract was initially priced at $ 50 million, but it was changed and expanded in October 2024, and caused more concern about the government’s commitment to the company in the midst of the genocide in Gaza.

Beyond the supply, Rafael is buried in Australia’s military research ecosystem. Company a partner Guided weapons and explosive ammunition (GWEO), the cornerstone of the AUKUS Defense Initiative.

Through this program, Rafael works with the American General Atomics to develop a deep missile. The missile system “various critical defense and coalition partners in the US will be built to be delivered to the US military customers to support sensitive fire duties”.

MWM Put questions about the ongoing cooperation with Rafael and whether the government will consider suspending the contracts in the light of the company’s apparent complexity in war crimes.

The department did not respond to the request for comments.

“Snuff videos as a sales speech”

David Shoebridge, the Green Senator, who has long ended with Israel and Australia arms trade, condemned the video and the silence of the government.

“As part of the sales speech, it is obscene to see weapons companies that benefit from a genocide sharing videos,” he said. Michael West Media. “It is even more obscene for the Australian government to buy weapons from these companies.”

Shoebridge had previously expressed his concerns about Rafael’s marketing practices. At the 2024 Indian Ocean Defense and Security Conference in PeTH, he witnessed using drone images showing the images of Israeli attacks in Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon. To be used to promote Israeli weapon systems.

Israeli arms manufacturers use the fact that they tested their weapons in Palestinians as a sales field.

This last year I saw a ‘Defense’ conference in Perth.

Rafael was selling images of Israeli attacks in Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon to the Australian government

– David Shoebridge (@davidshoebridge) 14 July 2025

Violations of international law

Under International Human Rights LawThe unjust execution of civilians creates a serious violation of the right to life. These actions are strictly prohibited within the scope of the Geneva conventions and can be prosecuted as war crimes and crimes against humanity in accordance with the Roman Regulation of the International Criminal Court.

Inside March 2024 Report Francesca Albanian, a special rapporteur in the Palestinian Lands, concluded that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has carried the distinguishing features of the genocide since October 7, 2023.

In the report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, a deliberate pattern of attack on civilians, the systematic destruction of the infrastructure required for life and the prevention of humanitarian aid, the actions that violate human law.

The Albanians clearly condemned the Israeli army’s forward weapons, including drones, to özengirmek targeting the Palestinian population as a whole without discrimination. These attacks, Albania, “can not be proportional and always illegal,” he says.

As Albanian stated Latest report– “From the occupation economy to genocide economy”The commodification of Palestinian death for weapons sales, weapons of violence against civilians is part of a wider militarized economy, in which weapons for “war tests”.

He emphasized the role of weapons manufacturers in providing these attacks and profitable, and called for international accountability not only for states, but also for companies accusing in savagery. This convergence of state violence and institutional profit reflects the “occupation economic genocide economy ..

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