Written by Tyler Durden
Shortly after the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributing aid to the war-torn Gaza in May, There have been alarming reports of Israeli soldiers killing unarmed Palestinians approaching aid points for food. erstwhile the eyes of the planet turned from Gaza to Israel's attack on Iran, the rate of reports of killings increased – with many incidents where more than 50 people were killed. Now The oldest Israeli regular paper published a sensational study in whichIsraeli soldiers and officers confirm regular usage of lethal force against unarmed Palestinians as a barbaric form of crowd control — with practice carried out at the orders of elder officers.
Hamas’ wellness office in Gaza says 529 Palestinians were killed at humanitarian aid stations or while waiting for a food truck only from the end of May, erstwhile the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) undertook to distribute food in the Gaza Strip. While Israel's defenders consistently discredit the number of casualties in Gaza, U.S. Army Colonel Nathan McCormack, who previously headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff's branch in Levant and Egypt, said: "We (Department of Defense, Department of State and the U.S. Intelligence Community) consider the data of the Ministry of wellness of Gaza mostly reliable". Mystery organization GHF is led by an evangelical Christian leaderWho has close ties to Prime Minister Netanyahu and president Trump.
Using a rhetorical grasp frequently utilized erstwhile Israel is accused of deadly wrongdoing, Netanjahu rejected the paper study as "Blood slander"against IDF
Israeli defence Forces (IDF) named the relation of soldiers and officers "with cruel lies to discredit... The most moral army in the world".
However, possibly by bowing down to the very degree of the study HaaretzThe IDF says he's investigating the charges.
According to soldiers and officers who spoke to Haaretz, various deadly weapons were routinely utilized as a means of communication, or Palestinians have approval to approach aid points.
Distribution centres are usually open only for 1 hr each morning. According to the officers and soldiers who served in their territories, IDF shoots people who arrive before beginning hoursto prevent them from getting close, or again after the closing of the centers to velocity them up. Since any shootings occurred at night – before beginning – it is possible that any civilians did not see the boundaries of the designated area. -- Haaretz
These soldiers don't talk about guns firing in the air. As 1 of them says:
"This is the field of death. Where I was stationed, 1 to 5 people were killed all day. They are treated as an enemy force – no means of crowd control, no teardrop gas – only living fire of everything you can imagineHeavy device guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then erstwhile the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can get close. Our form of communication is shooting".
"We open fire early in the morning, if individual tries to set up a line from a distance of respective 100 meters, and sometimes we just charge at a close distance. But there's no danger to the force. I don't know a single case of return fire. No enemy, no weapon".
According to the same informant, IDF soldiers mention to the practice of utilizing deadly fire to control Palestinian approaches to food distribution sites as Operation "Solona Fish", utilizing an Israeli name for a game for children that Americans call "Red Light, Green Light" – where players caught moving at the incorrect time are eliminated.
Officer IDF gave a akin description:
"At night we open fire to signal the population that it is simply a combat region and are not allowed to approach. On 1 occasion, mortars stopped firing and we saw people begin to approach. So we resumed our fire to make it clear that they were not allowed to do so. yet One of the missiles landed on a group of people.... [In another incident] We fired device guns from tanks and threw grenades. There was 1 incidental in which a group of civilians were hit while moving under the fog cover. It wasn't intended, but These things happen.".
Once the mortars stopped
"[Gaza] has become the place where the rules apply," said the reservist, who late completed his last journey to Gaza. "The failure of human life means nothing. It's not even an "unfortunate incident," as they utilized to say. Officers said Haaretzthat the IDF is working to guarantee that the recordings of what is happening in the relief sites do not penetrate the public. However, any films made by Palestinians reached the planet beyond their deadly, disease-stricken, hungry food mass hoarding:
To shed light on another dimension of Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip, IDF veterans gave insight into the ongoing physical destruction:
"Today Every private entrepreneur working in Gaza with engineering equipment receives [about $1,500] for all home that breaks down. They make a fortune. From their perspective, all minute they don't teardrop down houses is simply a waste of money, and forces must safe their work. Counterparties who act like a kind of sheriff strip everything they want along the full front."
The soldier said that lethal force is utilized even erstwhile bulldozers are in places where Palestinians have approval – and even where the proximity of Palestinians was created by the advancement of equipment. You usage deadly force anyway. "For a contractor who will gain another $1,500 and teardrop down a house, Considers it acceptable to kill people who search only food" – He said.
The full areas of Gaza have been erased from Google Maps .twitter.com/7hgV405Wv9
— RT (@RT_com) 21 June 2025.
One at a time a series of 3 June incidents close food points where IDFfor every time It took 50 or more lives, a gathering was held at the confederate IDF Command, according to a elder officer who attended the meeting. The review highlighted the fact that soldiers used Artillery missiles for crowd scattering. The elder officer said that the talk about the usage of artillery against unarmed people was only created by how the sound of specified a force could undermine Israel's ability to proceed the campaign:
"No 1 asked why these weapons were needed at all. Everyone is afraid that this will not harm our legitimacy for further action in the Gaza Strip. The moral aspect barely exists. Nobody stops to ask why dozens of civilians die all day looking for food.
We gotta ask ourselves: What precisely must be needed for Israel to halt insisting that it has "the most moral army in the world" – and that the United States government decides that it wants nothing to do with him?
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
