"The Israeli military protocols have skipped, in Gaza civilians killed en masse"
Only in the last hours of today were Dozens of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip . The Destruction of two houses and an apartment in Rafah they caused the death of 14 people including children . Yesterday, among the victims in the buildings of the area of the Al-Shifa hospital attacked by the army, there were 9 members of the Erbi family .
Two days ago, on March 17, a Nusseirat 36 members of the Tabitibi family They were killed by a bombing. The same fate was touched on November 22 to 52 members of the Qadoura family , in Jabalia: swept away three generations, by grandparents to grandchildren.
I am only some of the last and most well -known civil massacres of these 5 months of war in the Gaza strip that caused about 31,800 dead and 74,000 injured, for the vast majority of women and children .
Yet Israel continues to ensure that The incessant bombings are managed in such a way as to minimize civil victims and that the procedures ensure "proportionate" attacks.
He first Netanyahu repeated the legendary concept that IDF would be " The most moral
Army in the word ", The most moral army in the world. The declarations of the government and the military leaders Can they be tried?
According to some Israeli veterans, these are lies : Military protocols are blown , the attacks have changed mode and are producing a huge number of victims among the civilian civilians.
In March the Israeli Association Breaking the Silence posted a report by title " The Israeli myth of the Moral army. The Failure of the IDF's Targeting Protocols Is Producing Massive Civilian Casualties ”.
Breaking The Silence takes care of collecting the experiences of Israeli soldiers who are in manage and control every aspect of the daily life of the entire Palestinian population . NGO established by Idf veterans (the Israeli Armed Forces), for almost 20 years he has given his disseminated soldiers the opportunity to share their experiences Keeping anonymity, with the aim of raising public awareness on the consequences of a prolonged military occupation.
In the file published a few days ago, the Association compares some of Israel's bloodiest attacks on Gaza of recent years (2008-09; 2012; 2014; 2021).
The procedures used in previous bombings followed some directives designed to limit the number of civil victims. They were fallacious and often useless , explains Avner Gvaryahu , the director of Breaking the Silence, but they were there.
The reference is, for example, to the tactic of " Business to the roof (Roof Knocking) "Before breaking down a civilian home. In practice it translated into Launching a warning rocket on the stable that would have been destroyed, with the theoretical purpose of giving the time (a few minutes) to people inside to get out of it.
This procedure was used only when the objective of the army It was not a military building and he pointed to Destroy the house And Don't kill who was inside there. When, that is, intelligence believed that one of the apartments could be the house of a member or a supporter of Hamas who at that moment, however, was not located there or that Maybe he had already been killed previously.
The Israeli Association B’Tselem did note in 2014, not unique among the NGOs who deal with human rights, that destroying the houses of the militants represents a violation of international law as it is civil and non -military buildings .
But The Israeli army judges any building in which a person lives suspected of being a supporter of Hamas or other armed groups Palestinians, even in the absence of weapons and equipment, and " neighborhood general " of the movement .
The warning missile procedure remained, however, when used, Very dangerous, inaccurate, unsafe : Not everyone can leave their home in the middle of the night Maybe, in a few minutes and move away enough not to be affected by the debris of the destroyed building. Elderly people, children, sick, I can get stuck .
Sometimes other buildings in the area, and therefore other families, have been heavily involved in the culling .
In any case, unlike in the past, in the attack that began in October, After the raid of Hamas which caused about 1,200 victims in Israel , this procedure is not used.
It takes time and manual intervention, and this time the IDF is relying on automated procedures that speed up attacks and hit a large number of targets in a short time.
Breaking the Silence fa presente that the structural information (presence human, housing density) which were first used to calculate the power of attacks and estimate "collateral damage" (also in This case inadequate to protect civilians), are become old .
The number of human beings present in a residential neighborhood, for example, was completely changed by mass transfers ordered by the same army. If before Cell phone interception It was used to map people inside the strip and know who is inside a structure, today it takes time and is not among Israel's priorities .
The information thus obtained served, for example, ad Notify Foreign NGOs by telephone , members of the United Nations or other humanitarian organizations, journalists, to leave the building in which they were located because he was about to be attacked.
This methodology was also absolutely inaccurate . Suffice it to say that representatives of Associations with projects in the strip they have received the aircraft phone call that ordered him to leave the building in which they were located even if at that moment they were, in reality, in another country and even in another continent .
The impressive frequency of attacks is made possible today, explains the NGO, even by a new artificial intelligence system that generates new potential targets .
“ A system designed to produce series objectives compromises inevitably precision and increases damage to civilians, such as highlighted by Rebursement budget of the victims in Gaza in the last months ”.
All this happens when " manage conflict "Becomes the only goal in the absence of an overall and realistic plan that leads towards the end and beyond the war.