UK Channel 4 Covers IDF Soldiers' Claims of Civilian Killings

[reprehensor]

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Haaretz coverage;

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html

During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive.

The soldiers are graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin pre-military preparatory course at Oranim Academic College in Tivon. Some of their statements made on Feb. 13 will appear Thursday and Friday in Haaretz. Dozens of graduates of the course who took part in the discussion fought in the Gaza operation.

The speakers included combat pilots and infantry soldiers. Their testimony runs counter to the Israel Defense Forces' claims that Israeli troops observed a high level of moral behavior during the operation. The session's transcript was published this week in the newsletter for the course's graduates.

The testimonies include a description by an infantry squad leader of an incident where an IDF sharpshooter mistakenly shot a Palestinian mother and her two children. "There was a house with a family inside .... We put them in a room. Later we left the house and another platoon entered it, and a few days after that there was an order to release the family. They had set up positions upstairs. There was a sniper position on the roof," the soldier said...

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html

[defendandprotect]

1. Was just reading that story ---

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5939611.ece

Pretty much what we've thought has been going on ---

[EFerrari]

2. There was a heartbreaking interview on DemocracyNow! today

with the Palestinian doctor whose daughters were all killed while in their room at home. He's the one that works in Israel but lives in Gaza and who was on the phone with a TV anchor as the tragedy developed.

[vinylsolution]

3. And all financed....

... by our precious tax dollars.

So when will you condemn this, and cut off Israel's feeding tube, President Obama?

Tumbleweed rolls by....

[JohnyCanuck]

5. In anser to your question, how about.....

when Hell freezes over, or when the US is broke - whichever comes first.

[Smith_3]

4. Amazing that the anti-semitism howling squad hasn't arrived yet

and claimed that these Israeli soldiers are jew-hating anti-semites.

[classysassy]

6. "send in the clowns"

they are on their way.