Israeli Soldiers Kill Civilians and Count Them as Terrorists
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Haaretz: Israeli Soldiers Kill Civilians and Count Them as Terrorists
The report details how Israeli troops in the Netzarim Corridor kill
anyone approaching them
by Dave DeCamp December 18, 2024 at 6:14 pm ET CategoriesNewsTagsGaza,
Israel, Palestine
Israeli soldiers stationed in the Netzarim Corridor in the Gaza Strip
regularly shoot and kill Palestinian civilians but count them as
“terrorists,” Haaretz reported on Wednesday, citing testimony from
Israeli commanders and other soldiers.
The Netzarim Corridor is a strip of land that separates northern Gaza
from central and southern Gaza, where Israeli troops have demolished
virtually every building and established military outposts. The
Haaretz report says the IDF has designated the area a “kill zone,”
meaning any Palestinians who try to cross a certain line are shot and
killed even if they’re unarmed.
“The forces in the field call it ‘the line of dead bodies,'” a
commander in the IDF’s Division 252 told Haaretz. “After shootings,
bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat
them. In Gaza, people know that wherever you see these dogs, that’s
where you must not go.”
A recently discharged Division 252 officer said, “For the division,
the kill zone extends as far as a sniper can see. We’re killing
civilians there who are then counted as terrorists.”
The officer said Israeli units compete to see how many people they can
kill. “The IDF spokesperson’s announcements about casualty numbers
have turned this into a competition between units. If Division 99
kills 150 [people], the next unit aims for 200,” he said.
In one instance, Israeli troops massacred 200 Palestinians, and only
10 were confirmed as being “known Hamas operatives.” But the IDF
announced they were all militants. “No one questioned the public
announcement about killing hundreds of militants,” a Division 252
officer said.
One soldier, described as a veteran of Division 252, recounted a time
when the unit killed a boy he estimated was only 16 years old. “One
time, guards spotted someone approaching from the south. We responded
as if it was a large militant raid. We took positions and just opened
fire. I’m talking about dozens of bullets, maybe more. For about a
minute or two, we just kept shooting at the body. People around me
were shooting and laughing,” he said.
The soldier said when it became clear the boy was not a Hamas
militant, the battalion commander still congratulated them for
“killing a terrorist” and said he hoped they would kill more. “When
someone pointed out he was unarmed and looked like a civilian,
everyone shouted him down. The commander said: ‘Anyone crossing the
line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone’s a
terrorist.’ This deeply troubled me,” the soldier said.
In another instance, a soldier described witnessing four unarmed
Palestinians being shot at by an Israeli tank, and only one survived.
“We put him in a cage set up near our position, stripped off his
clothes, and left him there. Soldiers passing by spat on him. It was disgusting. Finally, a military interrogator came, questioned him
briefly while holding a gun to his head, then ordered his release,”
the soldier said.
The soldier said the three unarmed Palestinians who were killed were
buried by IDF bulldozers. “I don’t know if anyone remembers they’re
there,” he said.
The report is just the latest piece of evidence that Israeli soldiers
on the ground in Gaza are purposely killing civilians in Gaza. Earlier
this year, a report from 972 Magazine cited Israeli soldiers who
detailed how “Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian
civilians simply because they entered an area that the military
defined as a ‘no-go zone.'”
American doctors and nurses who have volunteered in Gaza have reported
seeing many children with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. “Every
one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical
setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest
on a regular or even a daily basis,” 99 American healthcare workers
said in an open letter to President Biden released in October.
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