"Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2015
- democracynow.org - A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60 Israeli officers and soldiers which it says illustrate a "broad ethical failure" that "comes from the top of the chain of command." More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the assault, the vast majority civilians. On Israel’s side, 73 people were killed, all but six of them soldiers. During the 50-day operation, more than 20,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced. We hear candid video testimonies from the soldiers and speak to former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, director of public outreach at Breaking the Silence.
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i hope people see this today, 2023.
May 2024 but nothing change.
2024 nothing has changed
You need to air these clips again.
IDF soldiers trying to escape war crime charges.
American tax payer 💰 to buy weapons n ammo?
How little things have changed 😢
At no point was anyone shooting at us he says, and they still do this to this day.
Free Palestine
Didn't the Nazi's have similar rules of engagement.
SHAMEFUL!
1 of The most bizarre things is the fact that American born Israeli's are openly allowed to go and join the masacre.
And Indians and brits and ....
Why this video doesn't have more views? oh god!!
The Group of IDF soilders, serving and ex-soilders of Breaking the silence are Brave with high morals, their contributions to humanity will not be forgotten and there are many decent people grateful to them. Great video thankyou.
Shameful! Truly Shameful!
They never learn… always doing the same crimes!!!
These are soldiers telling on themselves with hope to wake people up. They know what they did and want it to be known to the world. I am inspired by there courage but also angry that we watch and do nothing.
listening to this guy, total biased viewpoint. I trust common sense, history and experience over this guy's feelings. It's common knowledge that palestinian civilians launch surprise guerilla attacks via any means possible via knives, guns, suicide vests, etc. Why should the IDF soldiers put themselves at further risk? This video also fails to mention the warnings via leaflets written in arabic dropped on the area for the civilians to evacuate or risk harm.
Calling B.S. on this entire company, hence why it gets little to no media attention.
@@sarichmond79zionist shill calling BS 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you are an old joke, worn out until everyone sees through you😂😂😂😂
I hope people see this today, 2024. Please review this story again on Democracy Now!!
'Israeli patriot.' Code for colonial fascist.
What a shame and dark stain on our humanity. Sis Man.
If this catastrophic scenes are Not true. How can B. still denying Visas to Human Rights, UN inspectors or International Criminal Court to investigate???
Thank you Avnet Gvaryahu for your honesty and courage
so much for being the most moral army in the world, as if any one would believe that. I would also not expect to see this story or one like it on any US corporate media network. It is also not at all surprising that Israel act likes this when they know the US is going to cover for them in the UN and give them free money and weapons. If Americans truly care about Israel they need to call for some tough love; otherwise, Israel will not be a country worth saving, until then they need to be BDS.
listening to this guy, total biased viewpoint. I trust common sense, history and experience over this guy's feelings. It's common knowledge that palestinian civilians launch surprise guerilla attacks via any means possible via knives, guns, suicide vests, etc. Why should the IDF soldiers put themselves at further risk? This video also fails to mention the warnings via leaflets written in arabic dropped on the area for the civilians to evacuate or risk harm.
Calling B.S. on this entire company, hence why it gets little to no media attention.
@@sarichmond79u really are brainwashed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sarichmond79zionist shill spouting lies and propaganda .... No one BELIEVES a word you spout out of your evil bile filled mouth😂😂😂😂
OH MY GOD
8 YEARS AGO
This is prove and evident that this tragedy doesn't start on October 7th
This must be shared...denialism implies the death of innocents...and silence, complicity
This is so insane.
"...with friends like those, who needs enemies, eh. rhetorical. ;-(
There was never a ceasefire
👏
Stop
The Israeli soldiers probably thought they where US police coppers in Baltimore or Ferguson.
Arrest Fogh Rasmussen no however, Israel is the master of homeland of security, which come from over 50 years of an illegal occupation. The US and other nations train with Israel this is one of the reason why Ferguson, Baltimore, and many other places look like the middle east.
William Hudson Now I innerstand :
Same brutality but different
@@star80istthe knee hold used on George Floyd was taught by israeli coaches to the US police.
Gross war fog is so dehumanizing
So, is sorry good enough for these people. What is their endgame? Nothing short of return of Palestine.
There's one thing I don't understand : what's the reason explaining no military tribunal has yet ordered to seize all Breaking-The-Silence records, in an hyper-militarized country where such a tribunal can (and does regularly) censor any information it deems sensitive ? There were a few trials of conscientious objectors already, and apparently the arguments these people produced led parts of the Israeli society to question certain aspects of the predominance of the military. Are the joint chiefs / Is the government afraid suing all these whistleblowers might create too much of a backlash ?...
I think most of the break the silence soldiers were those who had been living in other countries esp USA and had come to Israel as 18 /19 year old to work in IDF. Then they left. But you are right, as many are still in Israel. Apart from Break the silence soldiers, there are a few other voices - much older men, like Ex- Mossad or a retired army general who have made quite shocking descriptions of what they did and spoke to give Palestinians rights. But I guess these people are very few esp in the loud pro Israel voices of the west it does not matter. As long as the general public view of Americans is in their favour Israel is safe.
all who were with the perimeters and confronted the soldiers were enemies and all of those who were far away and fleeing to other place were neutral and civilian.
Indiscriminately shooting civilian structures and infrastructure is a war crime. On the idea of Intent, just a loophole , semantics designed to cover war crimes.
"You fired at a school"
"Had no intent to kill civilians "
But you still fired at a school and if you knew it was being used and still fired that is terrible but because of technicality, in wording of laws you can deflect being accused of a war crime. Shows you how broken international law is. I am guessing the lying about civilians was a way for IDF to feign ignorance and undermine the idea of intent. But in reality, outside the court it does not excuse you.
Your "enemy immoral" . Dude still suckling on the teat of The IDF , Israel propaganda.
They won't show Palestinian civilians that aren't supporting humas even about the hostages taken..
The citizens of gaza are helping humans .
They won't show the humas warfare either.
Can we show this to Biden?
My heart boils. The idf are like playing toy guns.
Older report.....
2024…..
Have they personally talked to biden or any world leaders? Theyre exactly who needs to meet with workd leaders and tell them the whole truth.
K em A metallica
Why is your image so bad ?!
"so many spoke out" but only TWO are published? the way this is reported is very repetitive and descriptive on what the soldiers are about to repeat first hand anyway: "and this is an Israeli soldier expressing his feelings", "and this is an Israeli soldier describing how they would shoot freely to make their presence felt", etc.. Overall this sounds more like an extra layer of protection from possible backfire because "Oh they're not all the same.." but oh yes they all just shot without the need of orders anyway so now that they grew a conscience they're forgiven everything? That is not enough, you have to do something productive to make it better. Rebuild their city for one. Get slapped by mothers who lost sons, daughters and husbands for second. Creating debate is not enough.
No matter what, they all know what theyre doing is wrong and that ita a sin. Especially if you are a religious person, you know its wrong in the eyes of God.
Israeli Based
cringe
what about the rockets being launched from civilian areas from schools in Gaza ?
It was retiliation of shooting by israel to fill their free time just for fun. Wat if instead the hamas rocketed tel aviv as such. Wud tel aviv retialiate the same?. This commander took orders from crazy netanyahu, and news saying rocket from school in gaza is just cover up of misbehave of israel
What if I told you: those people were paid to say such things.
I have a friend in the IDF who was in Gaza, he said they didn't allow him to shoot even one bullet without clearance.
The story about the tank destroying random buildings is bullshit for at least two reasons:
1) The tanks are used to cover infantry, you can't just fire any house you want without clearance because it may have friendly forces inside. the guy clearly said he didn't get any clearance from high command, just his tank commander.
2) After every operation they count all the wasted shells and the tank commander must explain where each shell went, there aren't that many shells to just shoot them freely. This isn't the US army who have unlimited resources and can waste ammunition freely.
Also, the guy said it was really hot in the tanks, the Israeli tanks have air conditioning units so it's not hot in them, another inconsistency in his story.
Then how did 500k people become homeless after this according to the un sounds like everyone's houses was destroyed
Yet the world bear witnesses hundreds of children death times after times.
Zionist lying shill. NO-ONE BELIEVES YOU ANYMORE!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Do you know how pathetic your comment is !!! Shame on you trying to justify what's happening in Gaza