Israeli occupation officers and soldiers said they were instructed to shoot at unarmed Palestinians seeking aid at designated distribution zones in Gaza, despite the crowds posing no threat, Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday.
The paper quoted an Israeli soldier as saying that area where aid have been offered is a “killing field.”
In the report, the soldiers described how they fired on crowds of aid seekers to prevent them approaching or disperse them, rather than using non-lethal crowd control measures.
Israeli soldiers have deliberately opened fire at unarmed aid seekers near or at US-backed aid distribution sites in Gaza over the past month, acting under orders from their commanders.https://t.co/3Ed5BRzfgZ
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“It’s a killing field… where I was, between one and five people were killed every day,” one soldier said.
“They fire on them as if they were an attacking force: they don’t use riot control devices, they don’t shoot tear gas, they shoot everything you can think of – a heavy machine gun, a grenade launcher, mortars.”
He added: “We communicate with them through fire.”
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 549 people have been martyred near aid centers since they began operating in late May.
The US has just approved $30 million in funding for the group, despite the routine violence at its sites and warnings from human rights lawyers that its staff could be held criminally liable for complicity in war crimes.
Source: Israeli media
