Amid outcry over Gaza tactics, videos of soldiers acting maliciously create new headache for Israel

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Amid outcry over Gaza tactics, videos of soldiers acting maliciously create new headache for Israel

BY MELANIE LIDMAN
Updated 12:47 AM EST, December 13, 2023

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store, or trying to burn food and water supplies in the back of an abandoned truck. Troops with their arms slung around each other, chanting racist slogans as they dance in a circle.

Several viral videos and photos of Israeli soldiers behaving in a derogatory manner in Gaza have emerged in recent days, creating a headache for the Israeli military as it faces an international outcry over its tactics and the rising civilian death toll in its punishing war against Hamas.

The Israeli army has pledged to take disciplinary action in what it says are a handful of isolated cases.

Such videos are not a new or unique phenomenon. Over the years, Israeli soldiers — and members of the U.S. and other militaries — have been caught on camera acting inappropriately or maliciously in conflict zones.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-soldiers-gaza-viral-videos-idf-072894147302535cc9632863888e53a4

[Eugene]

1. Israel-Hamas war: Israeli soldiers suspended for reading out Jewish prayers at Jenin mosque during West Bank raid

Source: Sky News

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli soldiers suspended for reading out Jewish prayers at Jenin mosque during West Bank raid

The Israeli military says the troops have been removed from duties after the incident in the West Bank city.

Friday 15 December 2023 13:14, UK

Israel has suspended a group of its soldiers after video emerged of Israeli troops reading out Jewish prayers at a mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

In video circulating on social media on Thursday, soldiers are seen inside the mosque, with one using a microphone to read a Jewish prayer in the style of an Islamic call to prayer.

A song about banishing darkness, associated with the current Jewish festival of Hanukkah, is heard sung in Hebrew through a loudspeaker in a minaret.

The person filming laughs and joins in with the song.

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Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/israel-hamas-war-israeli-soldiers-suspended-for-reading-out-jewish-prayers-at-jenin-mosque-during-west-bank-raid-13030762

[LymphocyteLover]

2. Hamas is hardly angels-- war is hell

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Israel Defense Forces
@IDF
In an attempt to ambush our troops, Hamas terrorists connected dolls to speakers playing crying sounds and set them up in an area rigged with explosives.

The dolls and children's backpacks were intentionally placed near a tunnel shaft connecting to a large tunnel network that extends under nearby civilian areas including a school and a medical clinic.

Our forces conducted thorough searches of the area and exposed the ambush as well as Hamas intelligence and anti-tank positions in the area.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Israeli soldiers regularly violate Muslim holy spaces in Jerusalem, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

They thus provoke Palestinians and then murder them when they protest, even the children. After this war and the revelations about Netanyahu ignoring warmings of the Hamas attack, the needlessly brutal attacks on Gaza with thousands of innocent Palestinians being murdered, as well as the decision to annex the West Bank and open it to rabid settlers, I have no respect left for Israel. I’m sad to say that.