{"id":269924,"date":"2024-07-22T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=269924"},"modified":"2024-12-15T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:19:12","slug":"israeli-soldiers-tell-story-of-savage-cruelty-in-gaza-hidden-from-western-publics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/07\/israeli-soldiers-tell-story-of-savage-cruelty-in-gaza-hidden-from-western-publics\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Soldiers Tell Story of Savage Cruelty in Gaza Hidden from Western Publics"},"content":{"rendered":"

19 Jul 2024 – Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They just keep coming. On the weekend, Israel launched another devastating air strike<\/a> on Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding hundreds more, including women, children and rescue workers.<\/p>\n

Once again, Israel targeted refugees displaced by its earlier bombs, turning an area it had formally declared a \u201csafe zone\u201d into a killing field.<\/p>\n

And once more, western powers shrugged their shoulders. They were too busy accusing Russia of war crimes to have time to worry about the far worse war crimes being inflicted on Gaza by their Israeli ally \u2013 with weapons they supplied.<\/p>\n

The atrocity committed at al-Mawasi camp, packed with 80,000 civilians<\/a>, had the usual Israeli cover story \u2013 one rolled out to reassure western publics that their leaders are not the utter hypocrites they appear to be for supporting what the World Court has described as a \u201cplausible genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israel said it was trying to hit two Hamas leaders \u2013 one of them Mohammed Deif, head of the group\u2019s military wing \u2013 although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed uncertain<\/a> as to whether the strike was successful.<\/p>\n

No one in the western media appeared to wonder why the pair preferred to make themselves a target in an overcrowded, makeshift refugee camp, where they were at huge risk of being betrayed by an Israeli informant, rather than sheltering in Hamas\u2019s extensive tunnel network.<\/p>\n

Or why Israel deemed it necessary to fire a multitude of massive bombs and missiles to take out two individuals. Is that Israel\u2019s new, expansive redefinition<\/a> of a \u201ctargeted assassination\u201d?<\/p>\n

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This is NOT a "precision" attack. Then again, Palestinian lives don't matter (to the Israeli military). https:\/\/t.co\/d8UYCs4jwf<\/a><\/p>\n

— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n