"One of the soldiers who provided testimony to Breaking the Silence on
condition of anonymity said their unit was told to shoot anyone in the
perimeter area on sight. The mentality in their unit, they said, was
that there was no such thing as a “civilian” and everyone who walked
into the perimeter would be considered a “terrorist”..."
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| Smoke rises over a ruined building in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli bombardment last week, as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border. Photograph: Amir Levy/Getty Images |
Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan.
Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima.
The testimonies are some of the first accounts by Israeli soldiers to be published since the latest war started in October 2023 after Hamas’s attack on Israel. They were collected by Breaking the Silence, a group founded in 2004 by Israeli veterans who aim to expose the reality of the military’s grip over Palestinians. The Guardian interviewed four of the soldiers who corroborated the accounts.
Titled “The Perimeter” and published on Monday,
the report said the stated purpose of the plan was to create a thick
strip of land that provided a clear line of sight for the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) to identify and kill... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/israel-military-gaza-perimeter-land-testimony-report
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