Via Lisa Guliani EXCERPT from the IOF horses mouth for those in denial: ‘We fired a lot of rounds and killed a lot of people in order not to be injured or shot at.’ A third soldier said: ‘When we entered a house, we were supposed to bust down the door and start shooting inside and just go up storey by storey – I call that murder. If we identify a person, we shoot them. How is this reasonable?’ He also told of an old woman who was crossing a road when she was shot by soldiers. ‘I don’t know whether she was suspicious or not. I do know that my officer sent people to the roof to take her out. It was cold-blooded murder.’ The level of civilian casualties during the three-week operation caused an international outcry against Israel. Palestinians say more than half of the more than 1,300 Gazans who were killed were civilians, a figure disputed by Israel. The soldiers also told of large-scale destruction of Palestinian property. One said: ‘We would throw everything of the windows - refrigerators, furniture. The order was to throw all the contents out.’ Yaakov Amidror, former chief of Israel’s military academies, said: ‘If you see a woman and two children in the crosshairs, it’s pretty clear, there is almost no case in the world that would justify pulling the trigger.’ Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163259/Israeli-troops-admit-killed-innocent-civilians-Gaza-war.html#ixzz2lE99MYQ2
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:43:13 +0000
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