HeavenlyPossum
It would be much easier to believe that these were aberrations rather than the general rule if so much of the reporting out of Gaza wasn’t about just the basest, pettiest abuses by the IDF.
This is what they feel comfortable filming themselves doing.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/15/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-burningfood-gaza-intl/index.html
gnutelephony
@HeavenlyPossum in other words, acting much like Nazi's raising the Warsaw ghetto did. If the scene fits, I'm calling it.
HeavenlyPossum
Israeli soldiers similarly killed Yuval Castleman, an Israeli Jewish civilian who stopped Hamas terrorists during an attack in Jerusalem. Castleman had disarmed and surrendered but was still shot to death by reservists who thought he was one of the attackers.
Is this a general policy in the IDF—to shoot and kill anyone who might possibly be Hamas? Has discipline simply broken down his thoroughly?
HeavenlyPossum
Israeli forces killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Friday.
The hostages were apparently *trying to surrender* while displaying a *white flag.* The IDF shot and killed two immediately, then hunted down and killed the third while he begged for his life in Hebrew.
Now, we could imagine that this was a singular and unique tragedy. Maybe these soldiers were *particularly murderous.*
But it seems more likely that this incident offers a window into a more general approach by the IDF to killing men in Gaza, including men who are surrendering, and that we only found out about *this* instance because the victims in this case happened to be Israeli hostages, prompting a public investigation.
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