‘These kids need to be killed’: Shocking details of Israeli brutalities in Gaza

An Israeli professor says the regime's soldiers are increasingly engaged in war crimes in the besieged Gaza Strip.  

A detailed analysis published in Haaretz by Professor Yoel Elizur documents disturbing incidents, including one commander’s unprovoked attack on a 4-year-old child in the blockaded Palestinian territory.

“The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left,” the article quotes soldiers as saying.

“These kids need to be killed from the day they are born,” the commander shouted while responding to an objection. 

Elizur, an emeritus professor at the Hebrew University in occupied al-Quds, further revealed that soldiers who oppose such actions face severe consequences.

Max Kresh, a reserve fighter who declared opposition to “flattening Gaza” and other crimes against humanity, was subjected to intense social ostracism.

“They kicked me out of my team. They made it clear they didn’t want me,” he reported, returning from duty feeling “mentally crushed.”

The report also highlights particularly disturbing practices at Sde Teiman detention facility, where at least three dozen investigations are ongoing regarding detainee deaths since October 2023.

One reserve soldier described the normalization of cruelty at the notorious camp.

“I saw sadistic people there. People who enjoy causing suffering to others… What was most disturbing was to see how easily and quickly ordinary people can detach themselves.”

“There is total dehumanization here… It bothers me that it didn’t bother me. There is normalization of the process, and at some point, it just stops bothering,” another soldier admitted. 

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In a related development, Haaretz last week in an investigative report cited evidence of “unbridled lawlessness” by Israeli soldiers, particularly in the Netzarim corridor, which was set up in the Palestinian territory during its ongoing genocidal war in Gaza.

Israeli soldiers revealed appalling accounts of a “kill zone” in the Netzarim corridor where a shoot-to-kill policy is exercised against Palestinian civilians.

Soldiers reported that civilians who entered these zones are killed and often labeled as terrorists, inflating casualty statistics. According to one veteran, unit commanders turn these numbers into competitions, seeking to surpass each other in reported killings. 

The testimonies also reveal incidents of moral and ethical breakdown.

In one case soldiers opened fire on a boy suspected of being a 'militant.' After the shooting, they discovered he was unarmed and only 16 years old. However, the battalion commander praised the soldiers for killing a “terrorist” and dismissed concerns over his civilian status.

The report details the existence of an unofficial “line of dead bodies,” where, according to a division commander, “bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them.”

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