Israeli soldier testimony from Gaza: ‘we should kill everyone there [in the center of Gaza]. Everyone there is a terrorist.’

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(Graffiti left by Israeli soldiers in a house in Al-Zeytoun from the recent war in Gaza. Photo: Rose Mishaan)

Ha'aretz continues to share testimonies of Israeli soldiers from the war in Gaza:

Another squad leader from the same brigade told of an incident where the company commander ordered that an elderly Palestinian woman be shot and killed; she was walking on a road about 100 meters from a house the company had commandeered.

The squad leader said he argued with his commander over the permissive rules of engagement that allowed the clearing out of houses by shooting without warning the residents beforehand. After the orders were changed, the squad leader's soldiers complained that "we should kill everyone there [in the center of Gaza]. Everyone there is a terrorist."

The squad leader said: "You do not get the impression from the officers that there is any logic to it, but they won't say anything. To write 'death to the Arabs' on the walls, to take family pictures and spit on them, just because you can. I think this is the main thing: To understand how much the IDF has fallen in the realm of ethics, really. It's what I'll remember the most."

About Adam Horowitz

Adam Horowitz is Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine

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  1. Mark Regev says:

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    Those soldiers are obvious anti-semites. It is well known all of that footage of dead children is doctored imagery and Pallywood production.

  2. Me says:

    And still you have idiots proclaiming them to be "the most moral army in the world".

    Thank you Haaretz for publishing these testimonies, and for the soldiers making them.

  3. Susie Kneedler says:

    http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29291/26/

    War On Terror Within: The End of Jewish History
    By Gilad Atzmon

  4. Citizen says:

    Has anyone ever read an article in the USA MSM discussing the IDF refuseknicks? Just wondering since
    we are the IDF's piggy bank. Same question regarding our political leaders' awareness or lack of it on this issue, especially in light of the current bankruptcy of the USA.

  5. LanceThruster says:

    I've read many inspiring pieces about IDF refuseniks, but *never* in any USA MSM publication as far as I can remember.

  6. Suzanne says:

    There goes that English graffiti again.

    Looks like it was written for English speakers.

    Pallywood?

  7. 5 dancing shlomos says:

    IDF?

    JTT(jewish terrorist thugs) or JHS(jewish hatefilled savages) or JM(jewish murderers)

  8. MM says:

    Suzanne, Pallywood is the enormous creative media enterprise centered in Occupied Palestine and is COMPLETELY controlled by the Palestinians.

    Israeli customs have intercepted shipments of fake blood, fake appendages, burnt-out-vehicle props, wheelchair props, and even the most lifelife rubber burnt babies–they look so real you swear you hear 'em crying.

    Don't believe the news reports and personal testimony suggesting Zionist thugs recently murdered hundreds of unarmed Gazans for political purposes. That's just a meme Pallywood is trying to drop in your head. "Terrorist" is your word, and it applies to them.

    When naive terrorist-coddlers like me suggest Zionism just might be bad for Humans, just hold your head high and cackle.

  9. Duscany says:

    Suzanne: "There goes that English graffiti again.

    "Looks like it was written for English speakers."

    It does. Many Jewish Americans serve in the IDF. Maybe it was written by a former Brooklyn neighbor of Baruch Goldstein.

  10. Suzanne's logic mentor says:

    Well you don't have to be American to speak English. English is actually taught in Israeli schools, Suzanne, as indeed it is in Palestinian schools. And English would frequently be a more obvious choice for commmunication between Israelis who don't speak Arabic and Palestinians who don't speak Hebrew.

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