"Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire
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- democracynow.org - A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60 Israeli officers and soldiers which it says illustrate a "broad ethical failure" that "comes from the top of the chain of command." More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the assault, the vast majority civilians. On Israel’s side, 73 people were killed, all but six of them soldiers. During the 50-day operation, more than 20,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced. We hear candid video testimonies from the soldiers and speak to former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, director of public outreach at Breaking the Silence.
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Wow!! 9 years ago, and we’re still here
And they talk about why 1200 were killed by Hamas?
That was going to be my comment!
i thought everything started on october 7 - typical israeli
75 yrs and we are still here
And people think this started on Oct 7th, nine years later.
More like 76 years of land theft and oppression.
Could have started over 100 years ago?
- Hebron Massacre (1929): On August 23-24, 1929, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews and wounded many others in Hebron.
- Safed Massacre (1929): On August 29, 1929, Arab rioters killed 18 Jews in Safed.
- Haifa Massacre (1929): Occurred during the same period as the Hebron and Safed massacres, with several Jews killed in Haifa.
- Jaffa Riots (1921): Known as the 1921 Jaffa riots, Arab rioters attacked the Jewish population, resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and many wounded.
- Tel Aviv and Jaffa Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman authorities deported around 1,500 Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, with significant hardships and deaths during the process.
- Gaza Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported the majority of Gaza’s Jewish population, with a large number of deaths due to the harsh conditions.
@@radioactivewifi Revionist history! What about when zionists committed atrocities, are you gonna selectively ignore those facts? Typical racist appartheid ethno supremacy supporter!
They should have remained in Europe.
They know it didn't, but intellectual and institutionalized laziness, latent Islamaphobia, powerful lobbies and Zionist power are real factors.
I hope people see this today, 2024. Please review this story again on Democracy Now!!
Please do a story on these events:
- Hebron Massacre (1929): On August 23-24, 1929, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews and wounded many others in Hebron.
- Safed Massacre (1929): On August 29, 1929, Arab rioters killed 18 Jews in Safed.
- Haifa Massacre (1929): Occurred during the same period as the Hebron and Safed massacres, with several Jews killed in Haifa.
- Jaffa Riots (1921): Known as the 1921 Jaffa riots, Arab rioters attacked the Jewish population, resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and many wounded.
- Tel Aviv and Jaffa Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman authorities deported around 1,500 Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, with significant hardships and deaths during the process.
- Gaza Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported the majority of Gaza’s Jewish population, with a large number of deaths due to the harsh conditions.
I'm here in 2024. I had no idea this was happening. So awful and cruel. Allah bless the Palestinians ❤
The algorithm is going to send many ppl here even without review.
Now it is clear to US citizens....
@user, it's long been clear to quite a lot of US citizens and our government, but to them, Palestinians' lives don't matter that much, if at all. As for the rest, former POTUS, true, best Christian and Nobel Peace Prize winner James Earl Carter (and naval nuclear physics engineer, peanut farmer, and former governor of Georgia) says that Americans don't want to know. Besides, to them, just like black and brown Americans lives don't matter the same, Palestinians lives (and Muslim lives) don't matter that much.
i hope people see this today, 2023.
May 2024 but nothing change.
I am, and I am disgusted.
@@djentlegiant739 I have watched this terror play out for a long, long time. Yes. I am old. . While I am sorry that this time the atrocities are the worst yet, I am happy to now hear people talking about the Nakba, the Irgun, etc.
78 years of occupation and genocide with impunity 😢
@@djentlegiant739
Me too
Israel 🇮🇱 is attacking Lebanon for 20 year
People don’t know if they will be alive next day… I don’t understand why Israel 🇮🇱 like to attacks Palestinians and Líbano 🇱🇧 they send misiles everyday ! But if they attack Israeli back in self defame are terrorist! I don’t understand why USA protects Israel 🇮🇱 l just saw a video 😭
This is prove and evident that this tragedy doesn't start on October 7th
Yes. The same thing happened then as it is now, they only get more violent
78 years since occupation the Palestinian people are suffering oppression 😢they are victims of Israelis brutality 😢
The Nakba has been going on for more than 75 years, nothing new 😢
No it started when the armies of five Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948.
@@reemah5996 When the armies of five Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948 there were about 750,000 Jews made refugees across the Arab countries about the same number as Arabs in the mythical Nakba.
What a shame and dark stain on our humanity. Sis Man.
More like sissy man 🤣
1 of The most bizarre things is the fact that American born Israeli's are openly allowed to go and join the masacre.
And Indians and brits and ....
They won't even try to get American hostages back, let alone their own!!!
May 2024 : Americans have joined the settlers.
😢😢😢no justice only complicity
@abshir9677
Your observation of eight years ago requires an update for 2024… the US is now looking to offer any Americans who go to fight with Israeli full American veteran benefits for their service in the IDF. The US has made itself a fully bought subsidiary of Israel, totally subservient to its will.
2024 nothing has changed
Well, No AND Yes.
Its "Full On" Genocide of The Rest of Palestinian Population.
And We watched it.
You are correct:
- Hebron Massacre (1929): On August 23-24, 1929, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews and wounded many others in Hebron.
- Safed Massacre (1929): On August 29, 1929, Arab rioters killed 18 Jews in Safed.
- Haifa Massacre (1929): Occurred during the same period as the Hebron and Safed massacres, with several Jews killed in Haifa.
- Jaffa Riots (1921): Known as the 1921 Jaffa riots, Arab rioters attacked the Jewish population, resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and many wounded.
- Tel Aviv and Jaffa Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman authorities deported around 1,500 Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, with significant hardships and deaths during the process.
- Gaza Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported the majority of Gaza’s Jewish population, with a large number of deaths due to the harsh conditions.
Actually, a lot has changed and social media is driving that change.
You need to air these clips again.
They have been aired many times. Sadly, no one paid attention until now. Look up Sheikh Jarrah from a few years ago. It will make your blood boil. It never stops, but now the whole world knows.
Free Palestine
This is so insane.
At no point was anyone shooting at us he says, and they still do this to this day.
Wow this video is 9 years old and yet this is the same thing happening in Palestine today.
Always like this from the first Nakba 1948..
If people say what's going on in Gaza now (2023-2024) is a second nakba,they've mistaken..cos the first Nakba still on going..until today,sadly..
Over 75 years old, but no 1 cared
It's been happening for over 100 years now.
@@reemah5996 they want you to think that. Look around the world, people are waking up to deliberate global, genocidal hegemony.
The Group of IDF soilders, serving and ex-soilders of Breaking the silence are Brave with high morals, their contributions to humanity will not be forgotten and there are many decent people grateful to them. Great video thankyou.
IDF soldiers trying to escape war crime charges.
These “break the silence” people (I mean, please note the name) are actively sought out by crazy extremists who want to kill them all. And they're a lot there to be extremists so no, they're particularly ballsy in my book and not trying to escape any charges.
Their heart's been brutally broken, in this mess where they been involved.
War crimes were/are being committed by Hamas!!!
These people are truly sick. Where are they now?
9 years ago? Wtf and it's gotten worse
Its truly tragic ...such horrors were committed...but good to see soldiers breaking the silence.
Thank you Avnet Gvaryahu for your honesty and courage
2024...Evil got worse.
of course you're speaking of hamas.
You don’t actually believe that
they started calling it "mowing the lawn"........................
I understand ❤
There was never a ceasefire
American tax payer 💰 to buy weapons n ammo?
Didn't the Nazi's have similar rules of engagement.
Looks like the Nazis still do!
Yes
It's an open secret that the Israeli elite are Ashkenazi white European Zionist Jews and are all from Central and Eastern Europe and have the same exact, white eurosupremacist imperialist, colonial mindset. Check out their real names and where they're from.
"Zionazis", if you will
Justice must be done
9 years ago! There policy has not changed!
Will somebody introduce this video to Piers Morgan?
Please? Anyone..?
Piers and so many of his ilk already know about this. They're paid to obfuscate and misdirect.
SHAMEFUL!
DAMAGED MALES SHOULD NOT RULE
These ISRAEL EX Military are telling the TRUTH the ICC has to. STAND UP STOP NATHANYAHU NOW Thank you 🌹
And this was long before 7 oktober
Yes, it started 75 years ago when the armies of five Arab nations attacked Israel.
To UNITED NATIONS this VIDEO IS YOUR REASON to STOP NATHANYAHU NOW Thank you 🌹
United nations.
Jesus another scam.
They talk. How so nice. ❤
It would be nice. But since the founding of the UN, the US has squelched any all voices critical of Israel. We also consistently vote against a Palestinian state.
Why this video doesn't have more views? oh god!!
2024 and the israelies are saying and doing the same thing
'Israeli patriot.' Code for colonial fascist.
They are not colonials they are immigrants hust like in every country on the planet.
Arabs have a very peculuar notion about immigrantion and about emaining on the dole as refugees for generations.
Grifters.
This is ATROUTIOUS !!!!!😢😢
Shameful! Truly Shameful!
How little things have changed 😢
It's good that the algorithms are bringing back these videos. It was relevant and important to know who and what exactly Izrael was then, and it is even more relevant now.
For all who are still doubting, whether it started 7th Oct 2023, it did not!
No, it started 75 years ago when the armies of five Arab nations attacked Israel.
All those nations have since stopped attacking Israel except for the stateless arabs of Palestine.
@@jeffspicolli593 it started end 1800s when the first European Jews arrived there, showing aggressive behaviour and violence towards the Palestinians who were living there.
This must be shared...denialism implies the death of innocents...and silence, complicity
This video was from 9 years ago. Look at what is happening today 2024 at an exponential worst level
10 years later, the same story is playing out
These are soldiers telling on themselves with hope to wake people up. They know what they did and want it to be known to the world. I am inspired by there courage but also angry that we watch and do nothing.
listening to this guy, total biased viewpoint. I trust common sense, history and experience over this guy's feelings. It's common knowledge that palestinian civilians launch surprise guerilla attacks via any means possible via knives, guns, suicide vests, etc. Why should the IDF soldiers put themselves at further risk? This video also fails to mention the warnings via leaflets written in arabic dropped on the area for the civilians to evacuate or risk harm.
Calling B.S. on this entire company, hence why it gets little to no media attention.
@@sarichmond79zionist shill calling BS 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you are an old joke, worn out until everyone sees through you😂😂😂😂
OH MY GOD
8 YEARS AGO
And they are still saying and doing the same thing 😢
It's horrific
and they're telling the world that Hamas started the war...
Israel has been committing atrocities against the Palestinian people - massacres, forced displacements, etc. - since at least 1948.
75 plus years ago.😢
SEND your VIDEO to UNITED NATIONS NOW Thank you 🌹
They never learn… always doing the same crimes!!!
Because this is only to push blame to other people
Justice has to be done
Yep they keep nattacking the Israelis.
Palestina 🇵🇸 ❤live palestina
People that think there was no blockade and occupation in gazza and westbank must watch this
There definitely are blockades, no ooccupation though as Israel left Gaza in 2005.
Every country, including yours, restricts the mobility of people that try to kill them.....hence the blockades.
I'm not sure what Egypts blockades are about.
@@jeffspicolli593 Egypte doesnt blockade and i agree 💯
May the TRUTH continues to come out. Fight thr destruction of mankind by exposing the TRUTH.
I sat watching this video assuming it was about the current offensive. Obviously Israel has been getting away with war crimes for far, far too long.
And they say that it started in October 2023.
They are so so shameless
Stop
Watching this in 2024. Unbelievable.but now it's no longer a question of "if" but "when" they will be stopped.
And this is 9 years ago.
This is prove and evident that started way before October 7th. Free Free Free Palestine
It definitely started before Oct 7th.
It started 75 years ago when the armies of five Arab cointries attacked Israel.
All those countries have since quit their attacks except your squatter lads in Palestine.
The IDF is supposed to be the most moral army in the world??
so much for being the most moral army in the world, as if any one would believe that. I would also not expect to see this story or one like it on any US corporate media network. It is also not at all surprising that Israel act likes this when they know the US is going to cover for them in the UN and give them free money and weapons. If Americans truly care about Israel they need to call for some tough love; otherwise, Israel will not be a country worth saving, until then they need to be BDS.
listening to this guy, total biased viewpoint. I trust common sense, history and experience over this guy's feelings. It's common knowledge that palestinian civilians launch surprise guerilla attacks via any means possible via knives, guns, suicide vests, etc. Why should the IDF soldiers put themselves at further risk? This video also fails to mention the warnings via leaflets written in arabic dropped on the area for the civilians to evacuate or risk harm.
Calling B.S. on this entire company, hence why it gets little to no media attention.
@@sarichmond79u really are brainwashed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sarichmond79zionist shill spouting lies and propaganda .... No one BELIEVES a word you spout out of your evil bile filled mouth😂😂😂😂
Sounds very like Schindler's List doesn't it!
Not only has nothing changed but it’s become worse.
9 years later and it's even more diabolical! It's tik toks to celebrate...
Seekening😢😢😢😢
I would be ashamed to be an ‘Israeli’, or an American.
Yes that’s why the truth hurts too see for israhelllis supporters, and yet they say , khamas, khamas, khamas, October the 7, October the 7, October the 7 …. Piers Morgan where are you ???
This video was from 9 years ago. This happens until today.
My heart boils. The idf are like playing toy guns.
2300 US citizens fighting in the IDF. Congress to grant the IDF the privilages of IS veterens. Vote no.
If you think 9 years ago their conduct was horrible, how much more now when all restrictions are lifted.
Holy shit these people are and have been completely out of control
This army is really rotten from inside
I remember watching the video live, seeing a young man desperately trying to reach another man, from a very small distance, it was impossible, that dying man was talking; ..'Is that you God?' I cried like a baby
Truly evil regime like Nazi
If this catastrophic scenes are Not true. How can B. still denying Visas to Human Rights, UN inspectors or International Criminal Court to investigate???
Because Netanyahu is Criminal!
Why blame the Israelis Egypt has a border.
No matter what, they all know what theyre doing is wrong and that it's a sin. Especially if you are a religious person, you know its wrong in the eyes of God.
Those orders came from evil men. That kind of people claim to be part of God’s chosen people. No way!!
9 years ago! So this doesn’t happen on October 7,2023
“I felt there was something morally wrong in this army”
The intent has been crystal clear since the beginning. Remember what Galant said, the how he lifted all controlling measures on the soldiers.
This was 9 years ago
I got listed this so I clicked on it thinking it was from this or last year. And now I saw the comment, 2023 and I was thinking like What? And then I saw this is from 9 years ago. What the fuck?! They have been doing that genocide for years!
Have they personally talked to biden or any world leaders? Theyre exactly who needs to meet with world leaders and tell them the whole truth.
They know. They have been complicit. The only righteous president is ex-president Carter.
Thank you! For speaking out. It will all come out sooner or later.
Imagine this 9 yrs ago and people be like oct 7
Fast forward to 2024 & this worked out well, really well.
STOP THE PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST!
9 years ago!
Lets make this video viral for all those who stll think this started on the 7th of October.
9 years ago 😮😮😮 and now it's all over again
9 years ago. Wow.
I am jewish And I will stand For truth and good God bless those soldiers standing up.
And say the truth I'm not too happy with What's it's going on?They put in more heat Is against Jewish people With that action Against palestinian people That is very very bad
This is what mainstream media won't show...its in the making more than 9yrs!!
How this could happen. ,
This is soooo sickening! It leaves one thinking: How can CUFI and the US congress support all this?
Aipac has bought out all the politicians. They are on the payroll. Corruption through and through. How can you defend this slaughter.
This video could be from today. People forget so fast there was terror before 7 October towards the Natives of Palestine.
Absolutely disgusting and horrific
To all that finally waking up...thank you..
First time i knew about the on going Genocide in Palestine was when the song from Michael Heart played on my TV..about 15years ago...
You all should seek out the music video..
We Will Not Go Down (In Gaza Tonight)..from Michael Heart
I first found out about with Juicemedia
specifically...
"RAP NEWS | Israel v Palestine - feat. DAM & Norman Finkelstein" 👈put that in the CZcams search bar.
They also did another one after Oct 7th
"Honest Government Ad | Israel & Gaza 🇮🇱 🇵🇸"
@@dennisheyes4561 because of you,i check that video...
Gooshhh... 10 years ago.. and still related to the On Going Genocide right now...sadly...😔
"...with friends like those, who needs enemies, eh. rhetorical. ;-(
There's one thing I don't understand : what's the reason explaining no military tribunal has yet ordered to seize all Breaking-The-Silence records, in an hyper-militarized country where such a tribunal can (and does regularly) censor any information it deems sensitive ? There were a few trials of conscientious objectors already, and apparently the arguments these people produced led parts of the Israeli society to question certain aspects of the predominance of the military. Are the joint chiefs / Is the government afraid suing all these whistleblowers might create too much of a backlash ?...
I think most of the break the silence soldiers were those who had been living in other countries esp USA and had come to Israel as 18 /19 year old to work in IDF. Then they left. But you are right, as many are still in Israel. Apart from Break the silence soldiers, there are a few other voices - much older men, like Ex- Mossad or a retired army general who have made quite shocking descriptions of what they did and spoke to give Palestinians rights. But I guess these people are very few esp in the loud pro Israel voices of the west it does not matter. As long as the general public view of Americans is in their favour Israel is safe.
To think it's only gotten worse.
Every other day has been a oct 7 for Palestinians for decades
yep exactly
SMH. :
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