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Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month. Conversations with officers and soldiers reveal that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds to drive them away or disperse them, even though it was clear they posed no threat.
“It’s a killing field,” one soldier said. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.”
The soldier added, “We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there’s no danger to the forces.” According to him, “I’m not aware of a single instance of return fire. There’s no enemy, no weapons.” He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children’s game “Red light, green light”.
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This is why I had such a casual attitude about 7 young Israeli soldiers killed by an IED the other day. Normally, I’d be sad at the loss of seven young lives, all around my son’s age, but these people are enthusiastic murderers of innocent civilians, including women and children. I can’t feel badly about them being taken out of the murder game.
It’s hard to feel bad when an invading army doing a genocide gets hurt.
like yhea, a human has died, maybe they were anti war and were there from peer pressure, maybe they would have left and become a massive anti war advocate… but a bigger maybe, maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place doing every was crime known to man and inventing a few new ones.
Important is that these “opening” times during which the IDF doesn’t shoot are done like this
just in case
Damn, they weren’t lying, they did have only one box to distribute… /s
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/37RtH
This article has some fuckin wild quotes that each by their own should be enough to justify ceasing all trade and cooperation with Israel. I dont think Israel will ever be able to truly understand the depth of its own depravity unless it comes under full occupation like Germany after WW2.
IDF officers told Haaretz that the army does not allow the public in Israel or abroad to see footage of what takes place around the food distribution sites. According to them, the army is satisfied that the GHF’s operations have prevented a total collapse of international legitimacy for continuing the war. They believe the IDF has managed to turn Gaza into a “backyard,” especially since the war with Iran began.
“Gaza doesn’t interest anyone anymore,” said a reservist who completed another round of duty in the northern Strip this week. “It’s become a place with its own set of rules. The loss of human life means nothing. It’s not even an ‘unfortunate incident,’ like they used to say.”
Getting those orders is one thing.
Acting on them is another.
i remember how an IDF was once telling me about how Israel is there most moral army in the world because any soldiers has the duty to ignore unethical orders… Like basically any soldier in the world, only if they actually did that.
but do they?
These people need to be Nuremberged in the worst way.
So they’ve turned the world’s largest concentration camp into the world’s largest torture chamber.
I’m tired of people saying the victims of the holocaust did this.not only a tiny minority of the country survived the holocaust, but those people are marginalised in Israel.sorry, this was meant for another comment
Sounds like they’re taking notes from squid game.
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