The Israeli soldiers defined that there is no charge for free in Gaza and a breaking of norms and legal restrictions, of civilians killed by individual officers, according to the testimony of a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without stopping,” Daniel, the Commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ranks: Inside the war in Israel, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday night.
Some of the IDF soldiers who spoke on the program asked to remain anonymous while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct regarding civilians.
The soldiers who agreed to discuss confirmed the usual use of the IDF, opposing the distribution of civilians in Gaza established by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
“In basic training for the army, we all ‘mean, purpose and ability’,” a target with a cause, with a purpose that causes the cause.
“There is no such thing as ‘means, intent and ability’ in Gaza,” Vilk said. “No soldier speaks of means, purpose, and ability’. It’s just: a suspicion of walking where it’s not allowed.” “
Another soldier, identified in the program only as Eli, said: “Life and death are not determined by the methods of fire of the ground commanders who decide.”
In those circumstances, calling someone an enemy or a terrorist is absurd, Eli said in the documentary. “If they walk too fast, they are suspicious. If they walk too slow, they doubt.
Eli described an incident where a senior officer ordered a tank to destroy a building in an area designated as safe for civilians. “A man standing on the roof, hanging laundry, and the officer decided he was a spotter. He wasn’t a long one. You could see his laundry hanging,” he said.
“Now, it’s not like this person has binoculars or weapons. The closest military force is 600-700 meters away from their eyes.
An August Guardian analysis of IDF intelligence data showed that by counting Israeli military officers, those killed in Gaza were civilians, although the IDF disputed the analysis. More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began and more continue to die despite a halt that began a month ago.
In a written statement, the IDF said: “The IDF remains committed to the law of embattlement of civilians and the use of civilian areas for military purposes.”
Some of the soldiers interviewed in the program’s broken ranks are said to have been influenced by Israeli politicians and some 1,200 Israeli leaders, a legitimate target.
A UN commission concluded in September that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. In the question of purpose, it points to the encouragement from the leaders of Israel like the President, Isaac Herzog, that soon, it is a rhetoric that does not know, it does not know, it cannot be included. “
Daniel, the commander of the Tank unit, says in the documentary that the rhetoric that declares that nothing is innocent in Gaza has fallen through the ranks of the army. “You hear that all the time, so you start to believe it,” he said.
A spokesman for Herzog said the Israeli president is an unmitigated voice for the spiritual cause and the defense of the innocent.
The program also provided evidence that such views were fostered by some rank-and-file rabbis. “One time, Brigade Rabi sat next to me and spent half an hour explaining why we should take revenge on October 7. That we will not take revenge.
Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, an extremist Jewish cleric who served more than 500 days in Gaza, said in the program: “Everyone has a huge terrorist infrastructure.”
Zarbiv not only gave religious legitimacy to the mass demolition of Palestinian neighborhoods but credited the IDF’s pioneering military bulldozers with armored bulldozers.
“The IDF invested hundreds of thousands of shekels to destroy the Gaza Strip. We changed the behavior of an entire army,” Zarbiv said in the program.
The soldiers who gave their accounts of the destroyed ranks also confirmed the constant reports of the two-year conflict in the Palestinian territories, a practice vaguely known as “mosquito protocol”.
“You sent the shield man underground. While he was walking in the tunnel, he improved everything for you. He said that Daniel, the commander of the tank, said in the documentary. “The commanders saw how it works. And the habit spread like wildfire. After a week, each company operates its own mosquito net.”
The IDF said in a statement that “the IDF prohibits the use of civilians as human shields or coercion by military forces throughout the war.”
“Allegations of wrongdoing are thoroughly investigated, and when identifying details are provided, the matter is investigated in depth,” the IDF said. “In many cases, investigations have been opened by the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division (MPCID) following suspicions involving military missions. These investigations remain ongoing.”
The perpetrators of breaking ranks spoke to a contractor identified only as Sam who worked on food distribution sites raised by the IDF that killed civilians.
He described an incident at a distribution point where two young men ran in a general hurry to get help. “You can only see two soldiers running towards them. They kneel down and they only take two shots, and you can only see … Only two snap back and just drop. He described another incident where an IDF tank in the neighborhood of one of the distribution sites damaged “a normal car … just four normal people sitting inside it”.
According to UN figures, at least 944 Palestinian civilians have been killed while seeking aid in the vicinity of GHF AID sites. The GHF and the IDF denied targeting civilians looking for food at the distribution sites, and the operations denied involvement in Hamas operations. It has been approached for comment on the allegations made in the running documentary on the rank. Internal investigations into incidents involving the killing of civilians result in almost no respect for discipline or legal accountability.
The broken ranks reflect the mental scars of at least some of Gaza’s soldiers.
“I feel that they destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an IDF officer,” Daniel said on the program. “All that’s left is shame.”
Breaking the ranks: Inside Israel’s war airs in the UK at 10.45PM on Monday 10 November on ITV1, ITVX, STV player