http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5939611.ece
The Israeli army has been forced to open an investigation into the
conduct of its troops in Gaza after damning testimony from its own
front line soldiers revealed the killing of civilians and rules of
engagement so lax that one combatant said that they amounted on
occasion to “cold-blooded murder”.
The revelations, compiled by the head of an Israel military academy
who declared that he was “shocked” at the findings, come as
international rights groups are calling for independent inquiries into
the conduct of both sides in the three-week Israeli offensive against
Palestinian Islamists.
The soldiers’ testimonies include accounts of an unarmed old woman
being shot at a distance of 100 yards, a woman and her two children
being killed after Israeli soldiers ordered them from their house into
the line of fire of a sniper and soldiers clearing houses by shooting
anyone they encountered on sight.
“That’s the beauty of Gaza. You see a man walking, he doesn’t have to
have a weapon, and you can shoot him,” one soldier told Danny Zamir,
the head of the Rabin pre-military academy, who asked him why a
company commander ordered an elderly woman to be shot._______________________________________________
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