A report from +972 Magazine published on Thursday detailed how Israel is intentionally targeting civilians in Gaza as part of its war strategy even when Israeli forces know strikes will kill young children.
The report, which cited current and former Israeli intelligence officials, said the massive civilian casualties in Gaza since October 7 are due to Israel expanding its authorizations to bomb non-military targets and the loosening of restrictions related to civilian deaths. Israel’s operations in Gaza have had a very high civilian casualty rate, but never at the scale of the current conflict.
Sources told +972 that the Israeli military has files on many potential targets that give them a good idea of the likely civilian casualties their strikes will cause. In one case discussed by the sources, Israel’s military command approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to kill one Hamas commander.
One source said: “Nothing happens by accident. When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”
The report also explains Israel’s targeting “power targets,” which include civilian infrastructure, such as high-rise apartment buildings, banks, universities, and other public buildings. Three sources who’ve been involved in hitting power targets told +972 that the purpose is that a deliberate attack on Palestinian society will exert “civil pressure” on Hamas. Israel used to often warn people to evacuate power targets before they were hit, but that practice has become much less common. In the current war, apartment buildings full of civilians have been leveled with no warning.
Sources told +972 that target files for high-rise buildings and other civilian infrastructure always contain some sort of alleged association with Hamas, the real purpose is to hurt civilians. “The sources understood, some explicitly and some implicitly, that damage to civilians is the real purpose of these attacks,” the report says.
Another category of targets that Israel strikes is known as “family homes,” where Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives live. In many cases, Israel has destroyed private residences to kill one Hamas member. The +972 report notes that in the current war, “Palestinian testimonies assert that some of the families that were killed did not include any operatives from these organizations.”
The report said that because most senior Hamas operatives are deep in tunnels underground in Gaza, many of the attacks on family homes target alleged junior Hamas operatives. The Israeli military is able to carry out such attacks at an incredibly fast pace thanks to an Artificial Intelligence program called the Habsora system.
Detailing what the AI program does, the report says, “Habsora generates, among other things, automatic recommendations for attacking private residences where people suspected of being Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives live. Israel then carries out large-scale assassination operations through the heavy shelling of these residential homes.”
One source said the Habsora system allows the Israeli military to run a “mass assassination factory” that focuses on “quantity, not quality.”
Since Israel unleashed its brutal campaign against civilians in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack, it’s estimated over 15,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 6,000 children and 4,000 women. Shortly after the bombardment began, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the emphasis of the campaign “is on damage and not on accuracy.”
Another Report Also Details How Hamas Intentionally Targeted 1,400 Civilians in Israel on 7 Oct.
Yeah because the Gaza Division of the IDF was entirely comprised of Civilians
Correct.
Capitalising words does not make them a source, Donald.
Link to your source or cite by name & date.
Yeah and those hospitals were all hit by misfired
Palestinian rockets. Riiiight!
Yeah, with a little help from IDF troops shooting wildly, IDF tanks lobbing shells into building containing Israelis as well as Hamas (killing the little girl, Liel I think was her name, the poster girl put out by Israel propaganda), IDF Apache helicopters lighting up Israeli civilians who had been at the rave. Real straight shooters, they are. Here is a little video for you to absorb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gECjlpXF8
Israel has lowered the death count to 1200, 350 of which were combatants. Of the remaining 850 many were killed by “friendly fire” due to Israel’s Hannibal directive.
So 400-500 civilian skilled by Hamas on 10-7 is a far more accurate number.
Stop lying!
He cannot help it… It is in his blood…!
Where did you get the 400-500 estimation?
The Hannibal directive is (a non official) directive regarding soldiers during combat.
Where did you get that it was used on civilians?
The testimonies are of one hostage saying that the IDF and Hamas both fired above her head and that some hostages may have been hit by friendly fire, another testimony that a girl was yelling and fell silent after two explosions and a testimony that an Apache helicopter was firing on a truck heading to Gaza without realizing that there were hostages inside.
Extrapolating that hundreds of Israeli civilians died from friendly fire is wishful thinking without actual evidence.
Hamas body cams and security footage on the other hand are plentiful, online and were proudly presented on “official” Hamas website and Telegram channels before realizing that the “West” does not look kindly on massacres and took it down.
You’re really trying to downplay the actual friendly fire casualties. Try reading something that doesn’t whitewash what the IDF did on October 7th.
Israel’s military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been “burned alive” were actually killed by friendly fire?
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
Each and every commentator, trying to pin the blame for the October 7 massacre on the IDF keep going to a single Russian psy-op conspiracy site (The Grayzone) and one blogger (Max Blumenthal).
I know it’s important for you to believe the IDF so evil that it’ll kill its own for an excuse to kill Palestinians but the facts (as proven by Hamas bodycams) tell a different story.
Israel is a small and relatively homogeneous society, almost all Israelis served in the IDF, know a hostage or a dead civilian by first or second degree. It’s next to impossible to cover up a story like the one you choose to believe for more than an hour.
You’re right. The people responsible for the deaths are the Israeli government, which took no action to prevent the attack, in spite of the fact that they knew the attack was coming.
I trust what I know about the bastard in charge of the Israeli government, a government now guilty of ethnic cleansing and its own little replay of the holocaust via bunker busters.
Keep your eyes shut to the violence of the Israeli state. Keep your eyes shut to the violence visited upon Palestinians living in the west bank by Settlers.
You post “proof” based on a NY times article but stop reading pass the part that conflict with your beliefs.
According to the NY times (as well as Israeli media), the plan was known to IDF intelligence for more than a year. However, they dismissed it as ludicrous in its scale and reported it as such.
Hamas, on their part help reinforce this idea by making training as public and pompous as possible to lower suspicion as well as giving the appearance they are more interested in Palestinian well being than in attacking Israel by negotiating about funding and infrastructure.
Ironically, this is the exact reason that led to Israel’s initial defeat in the 73′ October war, exactly 50 years ago.
The Haaretz also had a piece on it that Israeli officials condemned. But the fact that Israel would bomb the living shit out of Gaza while hundreds of hostages are being held leaves little doubt about their lack of concern for their own people. And I suppose it’s only Russian psy-op conspiracy sites that write about the Hannibal Doctrine.
On Friday, the New York Times published a report establishing conclusively that Israel was fully informed, in detail, of plans by Hamas to attack its border that were executed on October 7. These revelations make clear that Israeli officials, knowing full well where and how Hamas would strike, made a deliberate decision to stand down in order to facilitate the attack.
These revelations mean that the Israeli government allowed and abetted the killing of their own citizens and that the Israeli government is responsible for the deaths that took place that day. This criminal conspiracy was aimed at establishing a pretext for a long-planned genocide against the people of Gaza.
The finding should come as little surprise to the liberal Israeli publication. On November 9, Haaretz released an audio interview with Israeli reserve pilot Col. Nof Erez, who said the Netanyahu administration likely invoked the notorious Hannibal Directive, which dictates that Israelis taken captive should be killed by the military rather than left in the hands of Palestinian militants.
“Hannibal Directive was probably deployed because once you detect a hostage situation, this is Hannibal,” Erez told the outlet in a recording published November 9.
“What we saw here was a mass Hannibal,” the pilot concludes.
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ot only did an Israeli police investigation find that “military helicopter that fired at terrorists apparently also hit some revelers,” there is also “a growing assessment in the security establishment that the terrorists who carried out the massacre on October 7 did not know in advance about the Nova festival held near Kibbutz Ra’im.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/21/haaretz-grayzone-conspiracy-israeli-festivalgoers/
See also https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
By 10:30 AM, according to an account the military gave to the Israeli news outlet Mako, “most of the [Palestinian] forces from the original invasion wave had already left the area for Gaza.” But with the rapid collapse of the Israeli military’s Gaza Division, looters, common onlookers and low-level guerrillas not necessarily under the command of Hamas flowed freely into Israel.
By this point, Israel’s two Apache helicopter squadrons had 8 choppers in the air, “and there was almost no intelligence to help make fateful decisions,” Mako reported. The squadrons did not reach full strength until noon.
As the wave of infiltrations from Gaza drove chaos on the ground, discombobulated Israeli pilots unleashed a frenzy of missile and machine gun salvos: “The Apache pilots testify that they fired a huge amount of munitions, emptied the ‘belly of the helicopter’ in minutes, flew to re-arm and returned to the air, again and again. But it didn’t help and they understand it,” Mako reported.
The Apache helicopters appear to have focused on vehicles streaming back into Gaza from the Nova electronic music festival and nearby kibbutzes, attacked cars with apparent knowledge that Israeli captives could be inside. They also fired on unarmed people exiting cars or walking on foot through the fields on the periphery of Gaza.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
Didn’t I tell you already? Israel is so so nice. “Israel Intentionally Targets Civilians in Gaza.”
And the US Federal Government continues to send weapons and targeting information to them https://news.antiwar.com/2023/11/21/us-shared-location-of-aid-groups-with-israel-israel-bombed-them-anyway/
The day the Federal Government collapses will be the day America is saved; the founders of this country were right to fear an all powerful national government.
From now on I’m only voting for Democrats or Republicans the mainstream media considers “extreme.” They may not shatter the Union themselves, but they’ll push us in the right direction.
Yes. You do that. Vote for Trump while at it.
Vote for friends and pets during the largest turnout in US history.
Forget Trump; He cheats contractors, I’ve worked for his type.
So have I. But do not cheat drywall hangers. True story. One drywall sub I worked for cheated his drywall hangers constantly, and, didn’t have the cash in the bank when the gang went to cash their checks. So, his Corvette was set fire to. The contractor rushed out of his house, grabbed the hose, turn on the water, only to find that the hangers had CUT THE HOSE! So, Monday he rounds up the hangers at the job site, demanding who did it. ALL of the hangers surrounded him and told him WE DID IT, SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, AND, WHEN ARE WE GETTING OUR MONEY. Turns out he had another bank account. He goes there, comes back and cashed out the hangers. Then they left. Word got out to hangers far and wide not to work for him. Finishers too.
Yep, I can’t see why any working person would sign on with Trump, or any other big city hustler.
But they do in large numbers. I don’t get how they think a guy like Trump cares about them. They only way they would get inside Mar-a-lago if they were pushing a lawn mower in front of them.
Let me get this straight. These guys committed felony arson and admitted it??? That is up to 20 years in prison in most states. Plus because the vett contains 20 gallons of gas which could explode they could also be charged with use of mass destruction weapon. These guys are really stupid if they did this and lucky the guy cheating them was equally dumb.
Cyprus is the “secret” base of operations for the U.S. and Israel war against the 2.3 million (and dwindling) Palestinians civilians.
“”I’m only voting for Democrats or Republicans the mainstream media considers “extreme.”””
LOL so far that would be Bernie Sanders or Trump.
It’s a start
son of bitch i will find you and then we will drink a beer together
Both Israel and US need regime changes….!
Netman, You da man! I’m a fan. You’re a think tank all by yourself!
90% of the time, you’re right 100% of the time.
Better than never and forever.
The cited piece is long, detailed, carefully and meticulously reported, horrifying (but not particularly surprising) and a searing indictment of Israel.
Read it and share it. Please.
The IDF has been deliberately targeting civilians for decades – one IDF soldiers testimony.
In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine’s Hebron City. Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid.
Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalized,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1382&v=FkxJd88xkBU&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
Amazing testimony. Just amazing. This man is morally head and shoulders above the Israeli leaders. A righteous man. Bless him.
Indeed righteous is a good description of his courageous stance
Israeli government targeting innocent civilians? Say it isn’t so.
A common sense update on Global-Communism versus Sovereign Nations (senior editor at Ronin’s Revelations). Podcasts coming soon:
https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
The most moral Army since the Waffen SS
It seems to me that self training AI targeting is suicidal.
Fantastic article and a searing indictment of IDF-Qaeda.
I’m not Arab or Muslim and I’m sickened and outraged by this senseless slaughter of innocent Palestinian and Muslim civilians using US bombs and missiles. I can imagine how the Arab and Muslim world must feel. WHY do they HATE US?
Well, President George W. Bush said it was because of our freedom. That’s it , isn’t it??? /s
Dumbya said a lot of asinine things.
Just in case there are any doubters “out there” (not likely) as to the Israeli intention to completely erase the Palestinians forever, the racist team of nitenyaaahoo/Ben Gvir plans to introduce depleted uranium into Gaza. Why, as hamas has no tanks and other armored vehicles.
The most common explanation is to poison the Palestinians for generations with birth defects and other radiation poison. It is indeed diabolical and criminal. But this is zionist hatred and arrogance in dc and israel (they are one and the same).
https://johnhelmer.net/biochemical-weapon-for-race-war-uranium-warhead-poisoning-is-the-specialty-of-us-against-russians-israel-against-palestinians/#more-88908
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This is pure nonsense. There is no way one could poison generations with the use of DU shells. The person who wrote this has a fundamental lacking of chemistry. He sound good, but does not know what h he is talking about.
I’m not sure if you disagree that DU will have harmful effects for generations (where is the lack of understanding chemistry in that) or whether the Israelis are intent on committing genocide on the Palestine population.
Perhaps this article will give you more information as to the Israeli intent:
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/03/caitlin-johnstone-if-i-were-going-to-commit-genocide/
A report .. detailed how Israel is intentionally targeting civilians in Gaza as part of its war strategy even when Israeli forces know strikes will kill young children. … as part of a strategy to put pressure on Hamas.
children are leverage
Surprise Surprise ..not. The degree of evil that lies at the very core of the illegal settlers and Zionism as a whole is remarkable. Israel has fallen into the abyss, and there is no way out. Not now. Let’s hope that what few rational minds exist in the US government that they pull away from this forever monster problem.
Exactly what the yanks did kill dozens of civilians to kill one ALLEGED freedom fighter in Iraq .
Israel is run by criminals.