Israeli forces admit to killing civilians in Gaza, labeling them as ‘terrorists’

Israeli officers and soldiers have admitted to killing unarmed Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip while labeling them as “terrorists.”

“The Israeli army says 9,000 terrorists have been killed since the Gaza war began,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said in a report.

The newspaper, however, cited officers and soldiers who have taken part in the ongoing war, as saying that “these are often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the Israeli army.”

“We were explicitly told that even if a suspect runs into a building with people in it, we should fire at the building and kill the terrorist, even if other people are hurt,” one soldier said.

According to testimonies by Israeli officers and soldiers, the regime’s troops open fire at anyone entering the “kill zone” that the regime’s army has defined.

“In practice, a terrorist is anyone the army has killed in the areas in which its forces operate,” a reserve officer said.

“They ask you how many, and I give a number based on what we see and understand on the ground, and we move on. It’s not that we invent bodies, but no one can determine with certainty who is a terrorist and who was hit after entering the combat zone of an Israeli force,” he added.