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Israel's dirty secrets in Gaza

Army veterans reveal how they gunned down innocent = Palestinian=20 families and destroyed homes and farms

By Donald Macintyre in = Jerusalem

Friday, 20 March 2009

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Palestinians' lives were seen as 'very, very less = important=20 than our soldiers'

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Israel was last night confronting a major challenge over the conduct = of its=20 22-day military offensive in Gaza after testimonies by its own soldiers = revealed=20 that troops were allowed and, in some cases, even ordered to shoot = unarmed=20 Palestinian civilians.

The testimonies =96 the first of their kind to emerge from inside the = military=20 =96 are at marked variance with official claims that the military made = strenuous=20 efforts to avoid civilian casualties and tend to corroborate Palestinian = accusations that troops used indiscriminate and disproportionate = firepower in=20 civilian areas during the operation. In one of the testimonies shedding = harsh=20 new light on what the soldiers say were the permissive rules of = engagement for=20 Operation Cast Lead, one soldier describes how an officer ordered the = shooting=20 of an elderly woman 100 metres from a house commandeered by troops.

Another soldier, describing how a mother and her children were shot = dead by a=20 sniper after they turned the wrong way out of a house, says the = "atmosphere"=20 among troops was that the lives of Palestinians were "very, very less = important=20 than the lives of our soldiers".

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A squad leader said: "At the beginning the directive was to enter a = house=20 with an armoured vehicle, to break the door down, to start shooting = inside and =96=20 I call it murder =96 to shoot at everyone we identify. In the beginning = I asked=20 myself how could this make sense? Higher-ups said it is permissible = because=20 everyone left in the city [Gaza City] is culpable because they didn't = run=20 away."

The accounts, which also describe apparently indiscriminate = destruction of=20 property, were given at a post-operation discussion by graduates of the = Yitzhak=20 Rabin pre-military course at the Oranim Academic College in northern = Israel. The=20 transcript of the session in front of the head of the course =96 details = from=20 which were published by the newspaper Haaretz =96 prompted the Israel = Defence=20 Forces (IDF) military advocate general Avichai Mendelblit yesterday to = announce=20 a military police investigation into the claims. Haaretz said the airing = of the=20 "dirty secrets" would make it more difficult for Israelis to dismiss the = claims=20 as Palestinian propaganda. The course principal, Danny Zamir, told the = newspaper=20 that after being "shocked" by the testimonies on 13 February he told the = IDF=20 chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi he "feared a serious moral failure" in the = IDF.

In one account, an infantry squad leader describes how troops = released a=20 family who had been held in a room of their house for several days. He = said:=20 "The platoon commander let the family go and told them to go to the = right. One=20 mother and her two children didn't understand and went to the left, but = they=20 forgot to tell the sharpshooter on the roof they had let them go and it = was=20 okay... The sharpshooter saw a woman and children approaching him. He = shot them=20 straight away. I don't think he felt too bad about it, because, as far = as he was=20 concerned, he did his job according to the orders he was given. And the=20 atmosphere in general, from what I understood from most of my men who I = talked=20 to, the lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less = important=20 than the lives of our soldiers."

A second squad leader, who described the killing of the elderly = woman, says=20 he argued with his commander over loose rules of engagement that allowed = the=20 clearing out of houses by shooting without warning residents beforehand. = After=20 the orders were changed, soldiers had complained that "we should kill = everyone=20 there [in the centre of Gaza]. Everyone there is a terrorist." The squad = leader=20 said: "To write 'death to the Arabs' on walls, to take family pictures = and spit=20 on them, just because you can. I think this is the main thing: To = understand how=20 much the IDF has fallen in the realm of ethics."

Ehud Barak, Israel's Defence Minister, said: "I say to you that from = the=20 chief of staff down to the last soldier, the most moral army in the = world stands=20 ready to take orders from the government of Israel. I have no doubt that = every=20 incident will be individually examined."

But Israeli human rights organisations, including B'Tselem and the=20 Association for Civil Rights in Israel, called for an independent = investigation=20 and complained that the military police inquiry had only been announced = after=20 Haaretz published the story, "three weeks after the relevant materials = reached=20 the Chief of the General Staff. This tardiness follows a pattern of = failures to=20 investigate suspicions of serious crimes".

Amos Harel, the paper's respected military correspondent who broke = the story,=20 wrote that Mr Zamir was sentenced in 1990 for refusing to guard a = settlers'=20 ceremony at Joseph's tomb in the West Bank. But he added that a reading = of the=20 transcript shows that Mr Zamir "acts out of a deep concern for the = spirit of the=20 IDF".

In their own words: Soldiers' stories

Squad leader Aviv

"At the beginning the directive was to enter a house with an armoured = vehicle, to break the door down, to start shooting inside and to ascend = floor by=20 floor and =96 I call it murder =96 to go from floor to floor and to = shoot at=20 everyone we identify. In the beginning I asked myself how could this = make sense?=20 Higher-ups said it is permissible because everyone left in the city = [Gaza City]=20 is culpable because they didn't run away. This frightened me a bit. I = tried to=20 influence it as much as possible, despite my low rank, to change it. In = the end=20 the directive was to go into a house, switch on loudspeakers and tell = them 'you=20 have five minutes to run away and whoever doesn't will be killed'."

Soldier Ram

"There was an order to free the [confined] families. The platoon = commander=20 set free the family and told them to turn right. A mother and two = children=20 didn't understand and turned left. [Officers] had forgotten to tell the = sniper=20 on the roof that they were being set free and that everything was okay = and he=20 should hold fire. You can say that he acted as he was supposed to, in = accordance=20 with the orders. The sniper saw a woman and children approaching him, = past lines=20 that no one was to be allowed to cross. He fired directly at them. I = don't know=20 if he fired at their legs but in the end he killed them."

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