Israeli explosives kill military’s own ‘platoon commander’ in southern Gaza: Report
A platoon commander enlisted with the Israeli military’s largest infantry brigade has reportedly been killed after explosives belonging to the force, itself, went off near him during an assault in southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli media outlets reported the development on Saturday, identifying the commander as 20-year-old Lt. Ori Gerlic in the Shimshon Battalion of the military’s Kfir Brigade.
According to the military, Gerlic was killed in the city of Khan Younis, when Israeli ordnance detonated in his vicinity during an assault on a target reportedly belonging to Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement.
The death was reportedly announced after permission was granted by the military’s strict censorship apparatus, which is widely reported to have been trying hard to conceal the regime’s wartime fatalities.
The military has opened an investigation into the incident that added one fatality to the 73-strong deaths occurred as a result of, what the regime calls, “operational accidents.”
Such developments, however, have outraged the regime’s settlers, who have already lost around 20 captives held in Gaza as a result of indiscriminate and ill-considered Israeli attacks.
The military says as many as 899 troops have been killed since October 2023, when the regime began taking the entire Gaza under a war of genocide.
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Numerous estimates, though, describe the figure as a sheer understatement, citing verified reports about the regime’s feverish censorship drive.
Israeli officials have criminalized documentation and circulation of proof of the deaths and destruction that has been afflicted on the regime as a result of concerted regional retaliatory operations.
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They have also ratified such controversial directives as the “Hannibal Protocol” that urges Israeli forces to fire on their own if they were taken captive, claiming that a dead solider is better than a one that is still living, but is in captivity.
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