Haaretz claims that soldiers are murdering Palestinians without cause.

Jerusalem: The Israeli military firmly rejected a prominent Israeli newspaper’s report on the random killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor on Friday, citing anonymous soldiers stationed in the region.

that has come under heavy fire from the right-wing administration of the nation, commanders were granted previously unheard-of powers to conduct operations in the Gaza Strip
According to soldiers, career officers, and reservists cited by Haaretz, a left-leaning Israeli daily,.

They said that along the Netzarim Corridor, a seven-kilometer-wide strip of land that runs through Gaza from Israel to the Mediterranean and has been designated as a military zone, commanders had ordered or permitted the murder of defenseless women, children, and adults.
According to the study, an officer recounted an instance where a commander claimed to have killed 200 militants, but in reality, “only 10 were confirmed as known Hamas operatives.”

Hamas requests that the UN and

ICJ records the testimonies of soldiers.

“All people are terrorists.”

Meanwhile, soldiers claimed Haaretz they were given dubious orders to shoot “anyone who enters” Netzarim. “There are no exceptions, no civilians—anyone who crosses the line is a terrorist. A soldier cited a battalion commander as saying, “Everyone is a terrorist.”

The troops also explained how division commanders were given “expanded powers” that allowed them to carry out airstrikes or attack structures without the previous need for permission from the highest levels of the army.

“Every strike in the area (of Netzarim) is carried out in compliance with the required procedures and protocols, including targets that are struck in an urgent time frame due to essential operational circumstances where ground forces face immediate threats,” the Israeli military asserted.

“Events that raise questions about potential violations of IDF directives or moral principles are carefully investigated and dealt with.” Brigadier General Yehuda Vach, who assumed leadership of Division 252, which had been located in Netzarim, was mentioned by numerous soldiers who talked to Haaretz as the commander in question.

Vach was born in the occupied West Bank community of Kiryat Arba, and according to one of the troops, “his worldview and political positions were clearly driving his operational decisions.”
Vach had stated that “there are no innocents in Gaza,” according to another soldier.

The “statements attributed to him… were not made by him,” according to the military.

“Any assertion to the contrary is completely unfounded.”

In order for the Israeli “people to know how this war really looks like and what serious acts some commanders and fighters are committing inside Gaza,” Israeli soldiers spoke to the newspaper, according to the Haaretz story.

“They must be aware of the inhumane situations we are seeing.”

Hamas, a Palestinian organization, also responded to the Haaretz story.

There was “new evidence of unprecedented war crimes and full-fledged ethnic cleansing operations, carried out in an organized manner,” according to the statement.

In order to “document these testimonies and take the necessary steps to stop the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas called on the UN and the International Court of Justice.

An Israeli minister criticizes the pope

Pope Francis came under fire from an Israeli government minister for recommending that the world community investigate if Israel’s military campaign in Gaza amounts to a genocide against the Palestinian people.

The pope’s comments, which were taken from passages of a future book that was released last month, amounted to a “trivialization” of the term “genocide,” according to Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli in an open letter published by the Italian newspaper Il Foglio.

“We are especially sensitive to the trivialization of the term ‘genocide’—a trivialization that comes dangerously close to Holocaust denial,” Chikli wrote, referring to the people who lost six million of their sons and daughters in the Holocaust.

Chikli urged the pope “to clarify your position regarding the new accusation of genocide against the Jewish state” before concluding the letter by referring to Francis as “a dear friend of the Jewish people.”

The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter. Authorities in the Gaza Strip claim more than 45,000 Palestinians have been dead and more than 107,000 injured in Israel’s onslaught, while most of the enclave’s more than two million people are homeless or displaced.