In an interview posted online, Israeli sniper Daniel Raab, a former US college basketball player from Illinois, admitted he knew Salem was unarmed but fired anyway.
Israeli snipers from the US and Germany killed four members of a single Palestinian family in Gaza City in one day, a five-month international investigation has revealed.
The probe, published by The Guardian, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Paper Trail Media, Der Spiegel and German broadcaster ZDF, traced the killings of the Doghmosh family in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood on November 22, 2023.
One of the most disgusting things I have read in quite some time.
Daniel Raab, an American from Chicago who became a sniper in the IDF, brags about how he killed unarmed Palestinian teenagers in Gaza.
The callousness with which he brags about his war crimes will send chills… pic.twitter.com/PAs5kJrEMF
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) September 10, 2025
Video footage and survivor testimony showed that 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh was shot in the head while trying to recover the body of his brother Mohammed, who had been killed minutes earlier. Their father, Montasser, 51, was also shot dead as he attempted to reach his sons, while another relative, Mohammed Farid, was killed nearby. Two more family members were injured.
‘That was My First Elimination’
In an interview posted online, Israeli sniper Daniel Raab, a former US college basketball player from Illinois, admitted he knew Salem was unarmed but fired anyway.
“That was my first elimination,” he said, as he described the youth’s attempt to recover his brother’s body, referring to them as “terrorists.”
IDF sniper Daniel Raab: “I shot Salem because he tried to recover his older brother’s body. I still can’t understand why he would risk so much for that. What was so important about a corpse?”
You can’t hate Zionists enough. pic.twitter.com/1FtLDEtBIM
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) September 10, 2025
In an interview posted on X, Rabb said Salem “bent down to take him (his brother), and I shot one bullet and hit him in the head.”
“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” he added. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”
“They just kept on coming to try and take these bodies,” he said.
Raab later boasted that his unit had killed more than 100 people during its Gaza deployment.
Photos, Videos, Geolocated Images
For the investigation, interviews were conducted with survivors, witnesses and relatives, in addition to reviews of medical records and geolocated images.
The investigation also identified Raab’s partner as Daniel Graetz, who grew up in Munich, Germany. Together, the pair were part of a sniper squad calling itself “ghosts,” made up largely of dual nationals.
Photos and videos from their deployment helped investigators geolocate their position to a six-story building about 400 meters away, overlooking Moneer al-Rayyes Street, where the killings took place.
What Drives Americans to Fight on the Frontlines of Gaza’s War Crimes
Survivor accounts and medical records confirmed the Doghmosh family deaths, while experts in international law told the investigation team the shootings of unarmed civilians, including people retrieving bodies, constituted a war crime.
The Guardian noted that their story “illuminates patterns of killing by Israeli troops, who have repeatedly treated unarmed men between 18 and 40 in Gaza as targets.”
Raab reportedly said,“They’re thinking: ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong,” adding “That’s what you have snipers for.”
‘God Will Not’ Forgive
Fayza Doghmosh, the mother of Salem and Mohammed, broke down in tears when shown footage of her sons’ final moments.
“Even if I forgive him, God will not,” she said of Raab.
Over 700 Gaza War Crimes Reports Filed in Sweden amid Ongoing Investigations
According to the Guardian, the video of Salem’s killing, and footage of other attacks on unarmed Palestinians, “was posted online five months after his death, part of a montage made by a soldier called Shalom Gilbert to celebrate a deployment in Gaza.”
Rabb reportedly said his “team” had killed 105 people by the time his deployment in Gaza ended. “That’s really impressive,” he was quoted as saying of the toll.
The paper cited Tom Dannenbaum, a professor of international law at Stanford law school, as saying that the “available evidence points to a war crime.”
(Anadolu, PC)
Raab the Jew cannot comprehend what motivates family members to come to the aid of stricken members. It must be, sort of ‘funny’ then Raab ? This human bonding is an alien concept to Raab’s sub-human cognitive condition. What a perverted monstrosity.
Something about his composed demeanor is off; as well as, off-putting. He seems to be in a trance-like state.
MK Ultra a little???
I’m reminded of the Third Reich’s killing of Jews in Babi Yar … If Israelis don’t like the comparison, then Israelis should stop committing such crimes, and hold accountable the criminals guilty of such crimes.
If one wants to know why Hamas can’t be defeated by these scums, this artice may be a good start. Zionists, the filth of humanity, brag about killing children and civilians, whereas the resistance fighters pride themselves on standing their ground as they inflict heavy casualties on a heavily armed mercenaries sponsored by most western countries. Death to the zionists wherever they are.
The US, Germany, and “Israel” are Sodom.