Israel has been creating “kill zones” in the Gaza Strip in areas where the Israeli military is operating, and anyone who enters will get shot even if they’re unarmed civilians, Haaretz reported on Sunday.
The report said anyone killed in a designated kill zone is labeled a “terrorist” even if they “never held a gun in their lives,” and they are “often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF.”
One Israeli reservist who was recently in north Gaza said the “feeling we had was that there weren’t really rules of engagement there.”
Other sources in the IDF told Haaretz that Israel’s claim that 9,000 out of the 32,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza are “terrorists” is not valid. “In practice, a terrorist is anyone the IDF has killed in the areas in which its forces operate,” an Israeli reserve officer said.
A senior officer in Israel’s Southern Command said it was “astonishing to hear the reports after every operation regarding how many terrorists were killed.” He added that Hamas fighters don’t operate in large groups, saying, “You don’t need to be a genius to realize that you don’t have hundreds or dozens of armed men running through the streets of Khan Yunis or Jabaliya, fighting the IDF.”
Another reserve officer who spoke with Haaretz said he was tasked with telling senior IDF officers how many “terrorists” were killed in operations his men carried out and said no one “can determine with certainty who is a terrorist and who was hit after entering the combat zone of an IDF force.”
The world got a glimpse of the indiscriminate policy when Al Jazeera published a video of an Israeli drone killing four unarmed men. The video shows the men walking in an open area of Khan Younis when a drone strike hits them. Two of the men instantly died, and the other two were finished off with a third and fourth missile strike. The last man who was killed was limping, then crawling away in a desperate attempt to flee.
A senior IDF officer confirmed to Haaretz that the four men were “unarmed” and that they “didn’t endanger our forces in the area in which they were walking.”
The Haaretz report said that the December incident where three Israeli hostages were killed by IDF troops in northern Gaza while waving a white flag was also the result of the kill zone policy.
UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording
Chair of foreign affairs select committee Alicia Kearns said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all arms sales to Israel without delay
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/30/uk-government-lawyers-say-israel-is-breaking-international-law-claims-top-tory-in-leaked-recording
thanks, here too:
“Israeli War Crimes COVERED UP By UK Government,” Owen Jones, (Youtube title)
Since Hamas terrorists do not have uniforms, if they lay down their guns they become instants civilians. That is the nature of this urban warfare. If a terrorists is killed and another terrorists grabs his gun, is that dead counted as a terrorists or a civilian? So younger men walking into protected zones of control will be killed. And the terrorists supported will chant “genocide” because they don’t understand the nature of this conflict.
That’s right, come up with even more excuses for indiscriminate mass murder.
You’re making up scenarios to justify murder. Now it’s just the chance that someone will pick up a gun that makes them fair game for getting killed. Urban warfare my ass. First degree murder in its truest sense.
War is hell. It would please me greatly to see all hostages returned,and all Israelis out of Gaza.
That would require some good will on the side of the Zionists. Where is that good will, on the WB maybe? It is nowhere to be seen.
Israel is Uncle Sam’s Muslim killin’ sidekick.
Uncle Sam and Zio-Man, the genocide guys!
Zio-man has a long way to go to catch up to Uncle Sam’s Muslim death count, but he’s tryin’ his damnedest.
Genocide is a choice. A choice you have backed. Don’t try to pretend otherwise.
War is hell-I hope for a just peace-two nations living side by side in peace and prosperity.How about you?
What are you willing to give the Palestinians in return, their human rights maybe? Are you willing to compromise, an honest deal?
The illegal settlements created after the 1967 war pose the greatest obstacle to that hope.
Also Israel’s policy of secretly promoting Hamas, motivated, in part, by a desire to claim that Israel has no legitimate negotiating partner in Gaza.
That does require compromise which Zionists are not willing to do. They are extremists, they want all of Palestine.
Genocide leaves no room for compromise.
You are full of shit. You’ve been cheerleading Israel’s genocidal attack from the very beginning. You’ve repeated Israeli propaganda verbatim even after it has been debunked. You’ve called the genocide just. Now, you’re pretending like you give a rat’s ass about those human beings being starved to death. Go away asshole.
It would please me to see all the Zionists out of Palestine!
Zionism = genocide!
End all US aid to Israel! No more support for genocide.
Dream on!
https://media0.giphy.com/media/131clO2wmYId8Y/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Zionists are murderous scum.
“The nature of this conflict” is “kill them all and let God sort them out.”
Touché!
Tim,
Open your heart, so that you can see and understand, the nature of this un-godly war.
Tim is obviously a heartless Zionist monster!
Zionism gooooood!!!!.
Gooood at genocide.
What is good about Zionists? They are criminals, bloodthirsty monsters.
Are you a Zionist?
Make a case why you think Zionists are good?
Eat shit & die Timmy.
You are a foul immoral human being.
I hope you die of a painful case of cancer. You deserve it!
End all US aid to Israel!
Zionism = mass murder!
Zionism = genocide.
Zero tolerance for genocide supporters!
Thanks for agreeing that the IOF soldiers who were not in uniform on Oct 7 deserved to be slaughtered along with their families.
Relax…! you’re thinking too hard to come up with these stupid ideas…!
You are too nice!
Younger men? Their snipers are shooting children in the head, their artillery is shelling the drop zones where the US is dumping our pitiful food contribution (and the US is telling them ahead of time where the drop zones will be), they’re rounding up and executing medical professionals both male and female, they’ve eliminated fire trucks with US-supplied missiles, they preferentially target first responders. Worst of all, they’re deliberately starving 2 1/2 million civilians to death in the worst crime against humanity since Rwanda.
It’s you who pretends not to understand the nature of this conflict.
Hamas resistance are fighting armed to the teeth undisciplined IDF terrorists, the IDF uses bombs, white phosphor, clusterbombs, helicopters, airplanes, tanks and drones and missiles and you cry foul because HAMAS fighters wear no uniforms and use guns?
Cry me a river, IDF scum kills infants and toddlers, you should be ashamed to call foul at Hamas. You justify killing young unarmed men, shooting them in the back from a drone being guided by some men or women in Ramstein Germany? What is wrong with you? Do you have a moral compass, some human decency?
Genocide is a euphemism for mass- murder of a groups of people, including women, children, infants and toddlers, monumental war crimes committed by vile and sadistic people.
The Zionists are brutalizing their own young people, their nations future and leaders.
“you cry foul because HAMAS fighters wear no uniforms”
When did they stop wearing uniforms?
Resistance, Partisans have no uniforms, they are not an army, they are brutalized civilians fighting their illegal occupier who does have a trained heavy armed military in uniforms.
Resistance use the weapons they can lay their hands on to protect their families and their properties. You do know that.
You are told they are terrorists and you never question that, why not?
We’re talking about the real world, not your fantasy “Resistance, partisans” world.
Hamas’s army, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has tens of thousands of members, who wear uniforms.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81kgdy
You have your own fantasies. Hamas is part of the Palestinian resistance which includes other groups, with or without uniform it is a resistance movement, not a regular army.
Yes, I do have my own fantasies. Many of them involve Jennifer Lawrence and whipped cream.
But when it comes to Hamas, I live in the real world. Hamas is 1) a political party; 2) the (once elected, since have not allowed elections) government of Gaza; with 3) a uniformed army.
Those are just facts. You don’t have to like the fact that they’re facts, and you’re free to fantasize otherwise. But they remain facts no matter how much you fantasize otherwise.
Thomas, are you a Zionist?
No.
But even if I was, that wouldn’t change the FACT that Hamas has a conventional uniformed army.
Our nation is governed by creeps.
“Creeps” is not the term I would use to describe the scum that rules over us and works so hard to benefit “poor little Israel.”
The creeps who are traitors to benefit Israel…!
The MIC, Big Banking, AIPAC.
Who are we kidding? In practice, the whole of Gaza is a “kill zone.”
Really? I thought the entire Gaza Strip was a kill zone?
A grand turkey shoot.
civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF
and too bad if the invisible line is between your house and the food store
And a visible line must have been out of question…!
i guess the lines are wherever they imagine them to be.
i wonder if the invisible lines are adjustable = every day the line gets 10 feet closer to your house.
If only there were a such thing as a food store in Gaza.
A senior IDF officer confirmed to Haaretz that the four men were “unarmed” and that they “didn’t endanger our forces in the area in which they were walking.”
How isn’t that an admittance to war crimes?
It is, but … what are you gonna do about it is the mindset …
To them it’s not a war crime… rather war Re-War-Ds…!
It’s “defending Israel”. To say otherwise is antisemitic, you know.
Lol…! As if the entire Gaza was up to now a “Peace Zone”…!
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli army ‘executed’ civilians at al-Shifa
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/1/israels-war-on-gaza-live-twenty-one-al-shifa-patients-have-died-amid-siege-who
What military rules could there be when an undisciplined sadistic armed to the teeth IDF army fight unarmed civilians, some 70% of them women and children, including new born infants? Such insanity.
Nothing Hamas did, even if all the allegations were true, justifies the war crimes committed by the vile Zionist scum committed against the occupied Palestinians. NOTHING can justify that.
Entire Gaza is the Kill Zone. WB is the Jail Kill Zone. Surrounding countries are the graeter Kill Zone.
Entire world except the self -imposed shettle ,ghettos and the armed syngaogues are the Kill Zones .
Is Israel saying to the father: Piss on your Peace, on Earth?!
Lol… Ahem… Really?… Is the father, questioning his own wisdom, in having created such a bloody mess?
Of course, he might but he really has all the answers to everything and everyone and he needn’t question himself either because he already has the answers and so do the mothers, including me. Because Peace on Earth, is the promise he made to all of us, here on earth and in heaven, eternally.
WTF can you or I say or do that will help the Palestinians? When their “valuable Waterfront property” can be gotten without PAYING FOR IT??
“GOD GIFTED IT YO US”. You SOL….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh look, Joe Biden just slaughtered 400 zip tied people in Al Shifa. When they say “Vote Blue” they mean that flag on the Uzi.