As an Israeli soldier my first instinct would be to return fire and kill the enemy, if i saw 4-5 men armed and shooting i would subdue that enemy i would not leave the other three alive to help, i believe this picture to be a faked photo op nothing more, also the photographer himself is in a very precarious position to the front left !! if i was a photographer i would not be standing here.
As an Israeli soldier my first instinct would be to return fire and kill the enemy, if i saw 4-5 men armed and shooting i would subdue that enemy i would not leave the other three alive to help, i believe this picture to be a faked photo op nothing more, also the photographer himself is in a very precarious position to the front left !! if i was a photographer i would not be standing here. We aren't talking about instincts. I said what I see in the pictures is a military sniper at work, doing what he's trained to do. I see the results of an applied sniper tactic, not instinct.
Selective fire - killing of one opponent - is efficient as a tactic in disabling the group seen in the pictures.
The photographer may have been in a protected location, relative to the sniper. Indeed, he could have been some distance away from the group he photographed - using a telephoto lens.