'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000

archive link: https://archive.ph/lqF6G

Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month.

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Haaretz has learned that the Military Advocate General has instructed the IDF General Staff's Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism – a body tasked with reviewing incidents involving potential violations of the laws of war – to investigate suspected war crimes at these sites.

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"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."

The soldier added, "We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there's no danger to the forces." According to him, "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons." He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".

[Orrex]

1. What's really shocking is how unsurprising this is.

[enid602]

5. Sickening

I disagree. It’s sickening and ironic. And unforgivable.

[Orrex]

8. It's all of those

But it can hardly be called surprising, after a relentless, years-long campaign of deliberate civilian murder.

[claudette]

2. Yep

The supposedly chosen people choosing death to innocents.

[atreides1]

3. IDF are murderers

And yet there are still people that use the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack as a justification for the atrocities committed by the IDF.

[uponit7771]

4. Some sick shit

[riversedge]

14. And it continues hour after hour, day after day. The people of Gaza need Food, instead they get a BULLET!!:grr:

[Lonestarblue]

6. Netanyahu and his sick government have turned Israel into a terrorist state.

And we the US taxpayers are supporting their ongoing murders of innocent Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as their genocide continues. We taxpayers pay for their bombs they rain on southern Lebanon to protect land they stole from Lebanon decades ago. We are paying for Israeli forces and munitions to attack Syria to steal their land next to the Israeli border while their new government is trying to get underway, a government that has not threatened Israel. We paid for Israel to attack Iran and murder innocent civilians in a country that did not attack Israel. Bibi loves to claim that these attacks are needed for defense. Really?

Netanyahu doesn’t want peace. He wants constant war to keep himself out of jail and US money flowing. Unfortunately, I as a taxpayer gave no control over how my taxes are used to kill people. The US has mostly given Israel a blank check with no conditions. Trump will not change that so we can expect the death toll in Gaza to continue rising with 50 or so starving people to be executed every day, along with others murdered in the West Bank because settlers covet their lands.

Today historians recognize that the US Army and white settlers committed genocide of our native populations. The same is happening in Palestine.

[Irish_Dem]

7. War crimes. Shooting unarmed civilians, women and children.

The other night I saw a young boy they shot.
He had been in line to get food for his family.

[Nanjeanne]

9. US Doctor in Gaza - "One Mass Casualty After Another": U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at Aid Sites

Whole interview and transcript here. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/gaza_healthcare]

We’re seeing a very predictable pattern. Shortly after the so-called aid distribution centers open, we just get – we hear ambulances flying towards the hospital, private vehicles, donkey-drawn carts bringing in people, streams after streams of people. They often have isolated gunshot wounds to their head, to their neck, in the very center of their chest. There’s very high lethality, so a large percentage of the patients that come in are already dead. And then, we kind of move quickly, transition quickly to the next patient.

We’re seeing lots of children, adolescents, teenagers. We’re seeing some older people, but it’s really more execution-style than the typical blast injuries that we see, which tend to be more multi-system, like head, neck, chest and abdomen with shrapnel. And these are really isolated, targeted types of injuries that are much more consistent with the firsthand reports that we’re getting and a lot of the video that we’re watching from the so-called food distribution centers, where it’s kind of like a perverted Squid Games, where they’re given a certain period of time to get the aid, and if there’s any chaos, then they just start opening fire. And then, we see it in our facility 20, 30 minutes later.

[Gimpyknee]

10. Orrex should be posting Is Netanyahu dead yet?

[IronLionZion]

20. We could start a betting pool on who dies first

and add Putin in the mix

[RandomNumbers]

11. Sort of like Hamas ordered its thugs to rape and torture innocents

Yes, yes, I get that it is a matter of allegedly thousands on one side vs. hundreds on the other side.

But if Hamas had the power, they would certainly up their game to equal Bibi's numbers.

(Assuming for now that the article is even true and not bullshit like so much that comes from both sides there)

I don't support Hamas OR Bibi / Likkud. But I am sick of the destruction happening in THIS country. (Oh and it's not like I/P is the only place in the world where evil and cruelty are happening - they just have better marketing.)

[Martin Eden]

21. In other words, there is no moral distinction between Hamas and the government of Israel

Both sides want to wipe each other from the face of the earth -- or at least from the Holy Land, praise be to God/Allah!

There are of course other differences. Israel's military force is many orders of magnitude greater, backed by the world's mightiest superpower.

An argument can be made that Hamas would not hesitate, if they had overwhelming military superiority, to murder every Jew in Israel and the occupied territories.

However, this is not necessarily a moral distinction. The Israeli government must still maintain support from from both their own voters and the American people. They are a nation state with a functioning economy, and can't afford the consequences of becoming a total pariah by committing naked unmistakable genocide.

Then there would be no moral distinction between their actions and that of the Nazi regime which, ironically, led to international support for establishing the Jewish state in the former Palestine in the first place.

It remains to be seen whether the president of the United States will assist in the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza, so he can build luxury resorts there. Perhaps some Palestinians would be allowed back in as service workers.

[PatSeg]

23. Horrific crimes against innocent civilians

are horrific crimes regardless of the perpetrators and should be condemned. To be outraged at the IDF's slaughter of civilians in no way means support for Hamas. There can be monsters on both sides.

[cer7711]

12. These are savage, soul-sickening war crimes.

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Daily massacres of civilians.
Documented and attested to by the IDF--the very ones committing these crimes.
"The most moral army in the world", eh?
Not any longer.
The colonialist-settler state of Zionist Israel has been forever tarnished in the eyes of the world.
It didn't have to be this way...

[AllyCat]

13. They could refuse. Better to land in a military prison

Than commit such a heinous act.

[Oneironaut]

15. Totally not a genocide, though.

Those Hamas combatants must have all been trying to steal food! /s

[IronLionZion]

16. Hamas eats food

so anyone who eats food is Hamas.

[paleotn]

25. Yeah. Remake of the Get Some scene in Full Metal Jacket.

Anyone who runs is a VC. Anyone who stands still is a well disciplined VC.

What the fuck is wrong with those damn people?

[neohippie]

17. It's illegal to hunt animals using food for bait in most jurisdictions

Here we have starving refugees being killed for just trying to line up to get food when many of them haven't eaten anything for days
Its just savage the way that this whole food operation is being run

[malaise]

18. Human slaughter

with Western complicity

[Linda ladeewolf]

19. I agree that these are atrocities being committed. It never seems to matter to either side

How many of their people are killed. If they had a ceasefire, one side or the other would break it. Hamas doesn’t particularly care about its people, not really, Israel certainly doesn’t care. Bibi doesn’t care about other Israelis. The leadership on either side is perfectly willing to sacrifice their own just to kill more of the other side. How do you stop madness like this?

[David__77]

22. This is the logical expression of the underlying system.

[paleotn]

24. And they think this kind of treatment is going to improve the Gaza situation?

I know. "Improve" isn't used by the Nuttyyahoo regime in the normal sense. They simply want the Palestinians gone. Deported, dead, just as good. What these morons are actually doing is creating more terrorists. Industrial scale this time, on a freaking assembly line! You can't solve this problem with bullets and violence. Certainly not this level of violence. What's left will seek revenge. Guaranteed. And that revenge will be proportional to the violence dished out by the IDF. Eventually, Israel will pay for these crimes and it won't be pleasant.