The main Machine gun in the Merkava is an m2 browning with the fire rate of 450-600 rounds/min, 335 bullets is 44 or 33 seconds.
Speaking of, I'm reminded of a journalist who spoke about (our) troops opening fire on vehicles that got too close in Iraq (and she was showing videos of the murders) getting death and rape threats for talking about it. People in the Middle East speed, and no warning shots were even made (these are also civilian streets with other civilian vehicles on the road), instead just opening fire into the driver's seat.
Maybe by bullet 336 they might have definitely known for sure that there weren't any civilians. Can't be too careful.
By that time there certainly weren't. All of it was neatly dispersed over the inside of the car.
My cousin's friend says that he might have seen a comment on an article saying there was a hamas behind the car, so it's justified.
Reminds me of the Nisour Square Massacre in Baghdad by Blackwater mercenaries:
One of the senior military officers who testified before the grand jury, Col. Michael Tarsa, said that he rushed to the scene and came upon a “white Kia with two corpses inside, decimated with bullet holes and on fire,” the report said. He also saw other nearby vehicles “riddled with bullet holes,” even though they were “apparently fleeing the shooting.”
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20170227170643/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/world/middleeast/17blackwater.html
