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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mahmoud Elsobky and Annie Kelly

Attack dogs: how Europe supplies Israel with brutal canine weapons

A muzzled dog led by soldier wearing a helmet and face covering and carrying a gun.
An IDF soldier and dog on patrol in Hebron. Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images

It was only seconds after soldiers entered the Hashash family’s home in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank that the dog attack began. As military raids rolled out across her neighbourhood one morning in February 2023, Amani Hashash says she took her four children into a bedroom. When she heard Israeli military coming into their home she called out that they were inside and posed no threat.

Moments later the bedroom door was opened and a large, unmuzzled dog launched itself into the room, plunging its teeth into her three-year-old son, Ibrahim, who was asleep in her lap.

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