Israel-Hamas Thread II

Desk trauma said:

Electing a Muslim mayor is Islam conquering NYC?

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Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers have lifted the lid on the army’s disregard for laws and norms during the genocide in Gaza in a new documentary called Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast by ITV on Monday night.

Daniel, the commander of an IDF tank unit is quoted in the show as saying that if soldiers “want to shoot without restraint, you can”, according to The Guardian.

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All told how rules on targeting civilians were flouted and the soldiers revealed how the Israeli military used human shields and opened fire without provocation on people trying to access food at aid distribution points.

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He told of one incident where a senior officer ordered a building to be demolished in an area which had been designated as safe for civilians. “A man was standing on the roof, hanging laundry, and the officer decided that he was a spotter. He’s not a spotter. He’s hanging his laundry. You can see that he’s hanging laundry,” Eli said.

“Now, it’s not as if this man had binoculars or weapons. The closest military force was 600-700 metres away. So unless he had eagle eyes, how could he possibly be a spotter? And the tank fired a shell. The building half collapsed. And the result was many dead and wounded.”

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The makers of Breaking Ranks spoke to a contractor identified only as Sam who worked at food distribution sites run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, who says he witnessed the IDF killing unarmed civilians.

He describes an incident at one distribution site where two young men were running to get aid.

“You could just see two soldiers run after them,” said Sam.

“They drop onto their knees and they just take two shots, and you could just see […] two heads snap backwards and just drop.” He recalled another incident in which an IDF tank near one of the distribution sites destroyed “a normal car … just four normal people sat inside it”.

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