So much for the worlds most moral army.
The details emerging from Israels brutalizing of Gaza clearly paint the way Gazan civilians were treated subhumanly.
Reprehensible.
The Israeli military attacked civilians and medics and delayed - sometimes for hours - the evacuation of the injured during the January war in Gaza , according to an independent fact-finding mission commissioned by Israeli and Palestinian medical human rights groups.Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society yesterday said their findings showed Israel’s military committed serious violations of international humanitarian law. In their 92-page report, compiled by five senior health experts from across the world, they documented several specific attacks, with interviews from 44 separate witnesses. In one incident, the researchers found a Palestinian, Muhammad Shurrab, 64, and his sons Qassab, 28, and Ibrahim, 18, were shot by Israeli troops at close range without warning on 16 January during a ceasefire. Qassab was hit in the face and died soon after. Ibrahim was hit in the leg. The soldiers refused to give medical aid, and only after 23 hours was an ambulance allowed to approach, by which time Ibrahim was also dead.
Israel created ‘terror without mercy’ in Gaza, according to human rights report | World news | The Guardian
This comes days after reports by some soldiders (who were afraid to give real names) that Israeli rabbis in the army urged the soldiers to kill as many gentiles (non-jews) as possible.
Literature passed out to soldiers by the army’s rabbinate “had a clear message — we are the people of Israel, we came by a miracle to the land of Israel, God returned us to the land, now we need to struggle to get rid of the gentiles that are interfering with our conquest of the land, ” the soldier told a forum of Gaza veterans in mid-February, just weeks after the conflict ended.
A transcript of the testimony given at an Israeli military academy at the Oranim college on Feb. 13 was obtained on Friday by McClatchy and also published in Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading dailies. The soldier, identified as “Ram,” a pseudonym to protect his identity, gave a scathing description of the atmosphere as the Israeli army went to war.“The general atmosphere among people I spoke to was . . . the lives of Palestinians are . . . let’s say far, far less important from the lives of our soldiers,” Ram said. The religious literature gave “the feeling of almost a religious mission,” he said.
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“We were supposed to go in with an armored vehicle called an Ahzarit, break into the door and start to shoot inside and simply go up floor by floor. . . . I call this murder . . . to go up floor by floor and every person that we see we were to shoot,” he said. “Aviv” served as a squad leader with the Givati unit in the Gaza neighborhood of Zeitoun.
Israeli soldiers say army rabbis framed Gaza as religious war | McClatchy
Re: Israel created 'terror without mercy' in Gaza - independent report
Good...I am glad this report is coming out
Israel brutalized the people of Gaza....I hope the world holds Israel to account and this forces a change in Israeli tactics
khoji
April 8, 2009, 2:43am
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Israeli soldiers say army rabbis framed Gaza as religious war
Israelis are very much like their Taliban cousins. They are both fasadis and enemies of peace.
Hundreds of thousands civilians killed during the brief history of Israel’s existence with the support of the champions of freedom and democracy. And if you retaliate, you are terrorists.
Israel was not held accountable in 70s or 80s or 90s or 2000s! Why now?
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/ariel-sharon-by-robert-fisk-521809.html