Soldiers were told to stop vehicles potentially carrying Israeli soldiers or civilians at all costs.
Israeli officials instructed Israel Defense Forces soldiers to target fellow soldiers and potentially civilians in the chaos of the October 7, 2023 attack that Israeli officials have used as a springboard for their genocide in Gaza, a prominent Israeli outlet has reported.
“Everyone knew by then that such vehicles could be carrying kidnapped civilians or soldiers,” one source familiar with the attack told the outlet. “There was no case in which a vehicle carrying kidnapped people was knowingly attacked, but you couldn’t really know if there were any such people in a vehicle. I can’t say there was a clear instruction, but everyone knew what it meant to not let any vehicles return to Gaza.
“They report it as ‘normal fire,’ which is a codename for ‘I’m bored, so I shoot,’” one soldier deployed in northern Gaza toldAt one point in December, one soldier testified, a battalion all opened fire at the same time, creating lights and colors “like fireworks” in order to celebrate Hanukkah. They also testified that, despite international laws requiring militaries to do everything possible to distinguish between civilians and combatants, Israeli forces are essentially told to assume every boy or man between 16 and 50 is a legitimate target.
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