Every human rights group that has looked into Israel's practices, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Israeli group B'Tselem, and many others, have found that Israel deliberately shoots to kill unarmed Palestinian civilians, and indeed the vast majority of the nearly nine hundred Palestinian civilians killed were unarmed. Over two hundred of them are children. All the human rights groups have found a deliberate pattern of gunshots to the upper body and head. Each of them has websites, so you can easily verify this yourself.
I think that the following quote from an article written by Michael Finkel in the New York Times magazine on December 24, 2000 illustrates very well the findings of every human rights group that has looked into it. He is speaking of his observations in one place in the occupied Gaza Strip:
"I spent two weeks at Karni during daylight hours, and in my time there, the Israeli Army fired live ammunition almost every day. Sometimes only two or three shots, sometimes a dozen or more. On occasion the shots were fired when cars or buses needed to enter or exit the settlement, at other times I could ascertain no reason for the shooting. Not once did I see or hear a single shot from the Palestinian side. Never during the time I spent at Karni did an Israeli soldier appear to be in mortal danger. Nor was either an Israeli soldier or settler even slightly injured. In that two-week period, at least 11 Palestinians were killed during the day at Karni." In addition to this, Israel plants bombs in crowded refugee camps and shells them with the inevitable and predictable result that innocent people are killed, just like the five schoolboys I mentioned in the article.
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