"Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire
democracynow.org - A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60 Israeli officers and soldiers which it says illustrate a "broad ethical failure" that "comes from the top of the chain of command." More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the assault, the vast majority civilians. On Israel’s side, 73 people were killed, all but six of them soldiers. During the 50-day operation, more than 20,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced. We hear candid video testimonies from the soldiers and speak to former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, director of public outreach at Breaking the Silence.
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Wow!! 9 years ago, and we’re still here
@clearvision07
23 күн бұрын
And they talk about why 1200 were killed by Hamas?
@Ashmooni
23 күн бұрын
That was going to be my comment!
@kodyscot9360
22 күн бұрын
i thought everything started on october 7 - typical israeli
@livebygodscommands7613
20 күн бұрын
75 yrs and we are still here
These ISRAEL EX Military are telling the TRUTH the ICC has to. STAND UP STOP NATHANYAHU NOW Thank you 🌹
Now it is clear to US citizens....
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
@user, it's long been clear to quite a lot of US citizens and our government, but to them, Palestinians' lives don't matter that much, if at all. As for the rest, former POTUS, true, best Christian and Nobel Peace Prize winner James Earl Carter (and naval nuclear physics engineer, peanut farmer, and former governor of Georgia) says that Americans don't want to know. Besides, to them, just like black and brown Americans lives don't matter the same, Palestinians lives (and Muslim lives) don't matter that much.
And people think this started on Oct 7th, nine years later.
@ashura3313
29 күн бұрын
More like 76 years of land theft and oppression.
@radioactivewifi
24 күн бұрын
Could have started over 100 years ago? - Hebron Massacre (1929): On August 23-24, 1929, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews and wounded many others in Hebron. - Safed Massacre (1929): On August 29, 1929, Arab rioters killed 18 Jews in Safed. - Haifa Massacre (1929): Occurred during the same period as the Hebron and Safed massacres, with several Jews killed in Haifa. - Jaffa Riots (1921): Known as the 1921 Jaffa riots, Arab rioters attacked the Jewish population, resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and many wounded. - Tel Aviv and Jaffa Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman authorities deported around 1,500 Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, with significant hardships and deaths during the process. - Gaza Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported the majority of Gaza’s Jewish population, with a large number of deaths due to the harsh conditions.
@ashura3313
23 күн бұрын
@@radioactivewifi Revionist history! What about when zionists committed atrocities, are you gonna selectively ignore those facts? Typical racist appartheid ethno supremacy supporter!
@KASalaam2U
23 күн бұрын
They should have remained in Europe.
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
They know it didn't, but intellectual and institutionalized laziness, latent Islamaphobia, powerful lobbies and Zionist power are real factors.
I hope people see this today, 2024. Please review this story again on Democracy Now!!
@radioactivewifi
24 күн бұрын
Please do a story on these events: - Hebron Massacre (1929): On August 23-24, 1929, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews and wounded many others in Hebron. - Safed Massacre (1929): On August 29, 1929, Arab rioters killed 18 Jews in Safed. - Haifa Massacre (1929): Occurred during the same period as the Hebron and Safed massacres, with several Jews killed in Haifa. - Jaffa Riots (1921): Known as the 1921 Jaffa riots, Arab rioters attacked the Jewish population, resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and many wounded. - Tel Aviv and Jaffa Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman authorities deported around 1,500 Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, with significant hardships and deaths during the process. - Gaza Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported the majority of Gaza’s Jewish population, with a large number of deaths due to the harsh conditions.
@Me-tb8rs
22 күн бұрын
I'm here in 2024. I had no idea this was happening. So awful and cruel. Allah bless the Palestinians ❤
@kamilhorvat8290
22 күн бұрын
The algorithm is going to send many ppl here even without review.
i hope people see this today, 2023.
@sholeha9003
Ай бұрын
May 2024 but nothing change.
@djentlegiant739
Ай бұрын
I am, and I am disgusted.
29 күн бұрын
@@djentlegiant739 I have watched this terror play out for a long, long time. Yes. I am old. . While I am sorry that this time the atrocities are the worst yet, I am happy to now hear people talking about the Nakba, the Irgun, etc.
@bridgetsaenz2774
28 күн бұрын
78 years of occupation and genocide with impunity 😢
@bridgetsaenz2774
26 күн бұрын
@@djentlegiant739 Me too Israel 🇮🇱 is attacking Lebanon for 20 year People don’t know if they will be alive next day… I don’t understand why Israel 🇮🇱 like to attacks Palestinians and Líbano 🇱🇧 they send misiles everyday ! But if they attack Israeli back in self defame are terrorist! I don’t understand why USA protects Israel 🇮🇱 l just saw a video 😭
What a shame and dark stain on our humanity. Sis Man.
@juliemckenzie5960
22 күн бұрын
More like sissy man 🤣
1 of The most bizarre things is the fact that American born Israeli's are openly allowed to go and join the masacre.
@ap2868
4 ай бұрын
And Indians and brits and ....
@quickcurechef5373
Ай бұрын
They won't even try to get American hostages back, let alone their own!!!
@keyfiender799
Ай бұрын
May 2024 : Americans have joined the settlers.
@bridgetsaenz2774
28 күн бұрын
😢😢😢no justice only complicity
@ak22gml85
22 күн бұрын
@abshir9677 Your observation of eight years ago requires an update for 2024… the US is now looking to offer any Americans who go to fight with Israeli full American veteran benefits for their service in the IDF. The US has made itself a fully bought subsidiary of Israel, totally subservient to its will.
This is so insane.
Free Palestine
American tax payer 💰 to buy weapons n ammo?
2024 nothing has changed
@karincarl4535
Ай бұрын
Well, No AND Yes. Its "Full On" Genocide of The Rest of Palestinian Population. And We watched it.
@radioactivewifi
23 күн бұрын
You are correct: - Hebron Massacre (1929): On August 23-24, 1929, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews and wounded many others in Hebron. - Safed Massacre (1929): On August 29, 1929, Arab rioters killed 18 Jews in Safed. - Haifa Massacre (1929): Occurred during the same period as the Hebron and Safed massacres, with several Jews killed in Haifa. - Jaffa Riots (1921): Known as the 1921 Jaffa riots, Arab rioters attacked the Jewish population, resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and many wounded. - Tel Aviv and Jaffa Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman authorities deported around 1,500 Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, with significant hardships and deaths during the process. - Gaza Deportation and Massacre (1918): During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported the majority of Gaza’s Jewish population, with a large number of deaths due to the harsh conditions.
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
Actually, a lot has changed and social media is driving that change.
This is prove and evident that this tragedy doesn't start on October 7th
@charshill2978
Ай бұрын
Yes. The same thing happened then as it is now, they only get more violent
@bridgetsaenz2774
28 күн бұрын
78 years since occupation the Palestinian people are suffering oppression 😢they are victims of Israelis brutality 😢
@reemah5996
26 күн бұрын
The Nakba has been going on for more than 75 years, nothing new 😢
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
No it started when the armies of five Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948.
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
@@reemah5996 When the armies of five Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948 there were about 750,000 Jews made refugees across the Arab countries about the same number as Arabs in the mythical Nakba.
The Group of IDF soilders, serving and ex-soilders of Breaking the silence are Brave with high morals, their contributions to humanity will not be forgotten and there are many decent people grateful to them. Great video thankyou.
At no point was anyone shooting at us he says, and they still do this to this day.
Its truly tragic ...such horrors were committed...but good to see soldiers breaking the silence.
9 years ago? Wtf and it's gotten worse
IDF soldiers trying to escape war crime charges.
@melbla3609
29 күн бұрын
These “break the silence” people (I mean, please note the name) are actively sought out by crazy extremists who want to kill them all. And they're a lot there to be extremists so no, they're particularly ballsy in my book and not trying to escape any charges. Their heart's been brutally broken, in this mess where they been involved.
@juliemckenzie5960
22 күн бұрын
War crimes were/are being committed by Hamas!!!
You need to air these clips again.
29 күн бұрын
They have been aired many times. Sadly, no one paid attention until now. Look up Sheikh Jarrah from a few years ago. It will make your blood boil. It never stops, but now the whole world knows.
Will somebody introduce this video to Piers Morgan?
@molly9518
25 күн бұрын
Please? Anyone..?
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
Piers and so many of his ilk already know about this. They're paid to obfuscate and misdirect.
2024...Evil got worse.
@jerrylyons9279
22 күн бұрын
of course you're speaking of hamas.
@weeshirley5934
19 күн бұрын
You don’t actually believe that
To UNITED NATIONS this VIDEO IS YOUR REASON to STOP NATHANYAHU NOW Thank you 🌹
@eileenahern-ku9nx
23 күн бұрын
United nations. Jesus another scam. They talk. How so nice. ❤
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
It would be nice. But since the founding of the UN, the US has squelched any all voices critical of Israel. We also consistently vote against a Palestinian state.
Wow this video is 9 years old and yet this is the same thing happening in Palestine today.
@neikusumah8357
29 күн бұрын
Always like this from the first Nakba 1948.. If people say what's going on in Gaza now (2023-2024) is a second nakba,they've mistaken..cos the first Nakba still on going..until today,sadly..
@reemah5996
26 күн бұрын
Over 75 years old, but no 1 cared
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
It's been happening for over 100 years now.
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
@@reemah5996 they want you to think that. Look around the world, people are waking up to deliberate global, genocidal hegemony.
SHAMEFUL!
Thank you Avnet Gvaryahu for your honesty and courage
And they say that it started in October 2023. They are so so shameless
These people are truly sick. Where are they now?
Justice must be done
DAMAGED MALES SHOULD NOT RULE
2024 and the israelies are saying and doing the same thing
they started calling it "mowing the lawn"........................
@eileenahern-ku9nx
23 күн бұрын
I understand ❤
9 years ago! There policy has not changed!
And this was long before 7 oktober
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
Yes, it started 75 years ago when the armies of five Arab nations attacked Israel.
Didn't the Nazi's have similar rules of engagement.
@mikeprice5838
Ай бұрын
Looks like the Nazis still do!
@ashura3313
29 күн бұрын
Yes
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
It's an open secret that the Israeli elite are Ashkenazi white European Zionist Jews and are all from Central and Eastern Europe and have the same exact, white eurosupremacist imperialist, colonial mindset. Check out their real names and where they're from.
@aabrightlove
21 күн бұрын
"Zionazis", if you will
There was never a ceasefire
This must be shared...denialism implies the death of innocents...and silence, complicity
This is ATROUTIOUS !!!!!😢😢
Why this video doesn't have more views? oh god!!
'Israeli patriot.' Code for colonial fascist.
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
They are not colonials they are immigrants hust like in every country on the planet. Arabs have a very peculuar notion about immigrantion and about emaining on the dole as refugees for generations. Grifters.
It's good that the algorithms are bringing back these videos. It was relevant and important to know who and what exactly Izrael was then, and it is even more relevant now.
Shameful! Truly Shameful!
For all who are still doubting, whether it started 7th Oct 2023, it did not!
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
No, it started 75 years ago when the armies of five Arab nations attacked Israel. All those nations have since stopped attacking Israel except for the stateless arabs of Palestine.
@moniquederksen1902
15 күн бұрын
@@jeffspicolli593 it started end 1800s when the first European Jews arrived there, showing aggressive behaviour and violence towards the Palestinians who were living there.
How little things have changed 😢
And this is 9 years ago.
Watching this in 2024. Unbelievable.but now it's no longer a question of "if" but "when" they will be stopped.
I sat watching this video assuming it was about the current offensive. Obviously Israel has been getting away with war crimes for far, far too long.
This video was from 9 years ago. Look at what is happening today 2024 at an exponential worst level
These are soldiers telling on themselves with hope to wake people up. They know what they did and want it to be known to the world. I am inspired by there courage but also angry that we watch and do nothing.
@sarichmond79
7 жыл бұрын
listening to this guy, total biased viewpoint. I trust common sense, history and experience over this guy's feelings. It's common knowledge that palestinian civilians launch surprise guerilla attacks via any means possible via knives, guns, suicide vests, etc. Why should the IDF soldiers put themselves at further risk? This video also fails to mention the warnings via leaflets written in arabic dropped on the area for the civilians to evacuate or risk harm. Calling B.S. on this entire company, hence why it gets little to no media attention.
@ap2868
4 ай бұрын
@@sarichmond79zionist shill calling BS 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you are an old joke, worn out until everyone sees through you😂😂😂😂
2300 US citizens fighting in the IDF. Congress to grant the IDF the privilages of IS veterens. Vote no.
Palestina 🇵🇸 ❤live palestina
They never learn… always doing the same crimes!!!
@qadeerakhabir5768
Ай бұрын
Because this is only to push blame to other people
@junegoddarddevon8306
18 күн бұрын
Justice has to be done
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
Yep they keep nattacking the Israelis.
Those orders came from evil men. That kind of people claim to be part of God’s chosen people. No way!!
10 years later, the same story is playing out
People that think there was no blockade and occupation in gazza and westbank must watch this
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
There definitely are blockades, no ooccupation though as Israel left Gaza in 2005. Every country, including yours, restricts the mobility of people that try to kill them.....hence the blockades. I'm not sure what Egypts blockades are about.
@naymatunc-rc6vs
15 күн бұрын
@@jeffspicolli593 Egypte doesnt blockade and i agree 💯
SEND your VIDEO to UNITED NATIONS NOW Thank you 🌹
May the TRUTH continues to come out. Fight thr destruction of mankind by exposing the TRUTH.
9 years ago! So this doesn’t happen on October 7,2023
This army is really rotten from inside
If you think 9 years ago their conduct was horrible, how much more now when all restrictions are lifted.
OH MY GOD 8 YEARS AGO
@charshill2978
Ай бұрын
And they are still saying and doing the same thing 😢 It's horrific
@phoekman8750
Ай бұрын
and they're telling the world that Hamas started the war...
@russnrach8
28 күн бұрын
Israel has been committing atrocities against the Palestinian people - massacres, forced displacements, etc. - since at least 1948.
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
75 plus years ago.😢
Lets make this video viral for all those who stll think this started on the 7th of October.
I got listed this so I clicked on it thinking it was from this or last year. And now I saw the comment, 2023 and I was thinking like What? And then I saw this is from 9 years ago. What the fuck?! They have been doing that genocide for years!
My heart boils. The idf are like playing toy guns.
I would be ashamed to be an ‘Israeli’, or an American.
so much for being the most moral army in the world, as if any one would believe that. I would also not expect to see this story or one like it on any US corporate media network. It is also not at all surprising that Israel act likes this when they know the US is going to cover for them in the UN and give them free money and weapons. If Americans truly care about Israel they need to call for some tough love; otherwise, Israel will not be a country worth saving, until then they need to be BDS.
@sarichmond79
7 жыл бұрын
listening to this guy, total biased viewpoint. I trust common sense, history and experience over this guy's feelings. It's common knowledge that palestinian civilians launch surprise guerilla attacks via any means possible via knives, guns, suicide vests, etc. Why should the IDF soldiers put themselves at further risk? This video also fails to mention the warnings via leaflets written in arabic dropped on the area for the civilians to evacuate or risk harm. Calling B.S. on this entire company, hence why it gets little to no media attention.
@phoenixrising8640
7 ай бұрын
@@sarichmond79u really are brainwashed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ap2868
4 ай бұрын
@@sarichmond79zionist shill spouting lies and propaganda .... No one BELIEVES a word you spout out of your evil bile filled mouth😂😂😂😂
@alicecunningham3837
25 күн бұрын
Sounds very like Schindler's List doesn't it!
9 years later and it's even more diabolical! It's tik toks to celebrate...
This is prove and evident that started way before October 7th. Free Free Free Palestine
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
It definitely started before Oct 7th. It started 75 years ago when the armies of five Arab cointries attacked Israel. All those countries have since quit their attacks except your squatter lads in Palestine.
Fast forward to 2024 & this worked out well, really well. STOP THE PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST!
I remember watching the video live, seeing a young man desperately trying to reach another man, from a very small distance, it was impossible, that dying man was talking; ..'Is that you God?' I cried like a baby
The IDF is supposed to be the most moral army in the world??
Stop
9 years ago 😮😮😮 and now it's all over again
Not only has nothing changed but it’s become worse.
Truly evil regime like Nazi
9 years ago!
Yes that’s why the truth hurts too see for israhelllis supporters, and yet they say , khamas, khamas, khamas, October the 7, October the 7, October the 7 …. Piers Morgan where are you ???
Thank you! For speaking out. It will all come out sooner or later.
This video was from 9 years ago. This happens until today.
This is what mainstream media won't show...its in the making more than 9yrs!!
Every other day has been a oct 7 for Palestinians for decades
@HM-rz8nv
23 күн бұрын
yep exactly
No matter what, they all know what theyre doing is wrong and that it's a sin. Especially if you are a religious person, you know its wrong in the eyes of God.
Holy shit these people are and have been completely out of control
The intent has been crystal clear since the beginning. Remember what Galant said, the how he lifted all controlling measures on the soldiers.
@user-er4jm1ln8c
19 күн бұрын
This was 9 years ago
“I felt there was something morally wrong in this army”
Cher soldat israélien qui dénoncez les horreurs que commet votre armée, vous honorez votre pays, votre peuple et votre religion,… Puissent d’autres suivre votre exemple !!!
This is soooo sickening! It leaves one thinking: How can CUFI and the US congress support all this?
@bg8807
20 күн бұрын
Aipac has bought out all the politicians. They are on the payroll. Corruption through and through. How can you defend this slaughter.
To think it's only gotten worse.
If this catastrophic scenes are Not true. How can B. still denying Visas to Human Rights, UN inspectors or International Criminal Court to investigate???
@kouklepartali
29 күн бұрын
Because Netanyahu is Criminal!
@jeffspicolli593
15 күн бұрын
Why blame the Israelis Egypt has a border.
Seekening😢😢😢😢
Imagine this 9 yrs ago and people be like oct 7
Have they personally talked to biden or any world leaders? Theyre exactly who needs to meet with world leaders and tell them the whole truth.
@AlejandraRodriguez-gx7gb
28 күн бұрын
They know. They have been complicit. The only righteous president is ex-president Carter.
What about the word leaders and governments who backed up Israel in this shameful war by supporting and supplying weapons? Are they watching this video ? How they will face the history?
@russnrach8
28 күн бұрын
In a just world, they would be facing sanctions, or possibly criminal indictments from the ICC for their enabling of Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinian people.
@AlejandraRodriguez-gx7gb
28 күн бұрын
They have been complicit.
@staciasmith5162
23 күн бұрын
From the moment they promised and gave someone else's land to another group to form a new country out of it, they've been complicit.
🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
I am jewish And I will stand For truth and good God bless those soldiers standing up. And say the truth I'm not too happy with What's it's going on?They put in more heat Is against Jewish people With that action Against palestinian people That is very very bad
This is 2024, May and this interview happened 9 years ago. How come Israel is only indicated now? What they are doing now is exactly the same thing they were doing back then! Why the long wait??? Evil I tell you, eveil! (Evil)
@eileenahern-ku9nx
23 күн бұрын
Evil. Not eveil ❤
@phayuring
22 күн бұрын
@@eileenahern-ku9nx 🙏🏾 thanks, I made the correction (I shall do a better job proofreading 😊)
Also is other military who said he quit because he saw October 7 the same militares were shooting their own civilians peoples to blame Hamas
Absolutely disgusting and horrific
9 years ago. Wow.
This video could be from today. People forget so fast there was terror before 7 October towards the Natives of Palestine.
My goodness that was few summers ago! No wonder why we had the 7th October. And how idf is acting now! What a morale army in the world!