The Israeli army ordered its troops to kill any males they encountered in Gaza, including the unarmed and the elderly, during the genocide of Palestinians that began in 2023, according to a 7 May investigative report aired on Israel’s Channel 13.
“A man, no matter what age, don’t play games with it; kill immediately,” one soldier said he was told by his commanders.
“They even told us that if it’s a woman or a child, use your judgment, because things happen,” he added, speaking anonymously.
His testimony was given to Iris Haim, the mother of an Israeli soldier taken captive by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
Yotam Haim was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza after approaching their positions during an attempt to escape alongside two other captives in December 2023.
The three Israeli captives were shirtless and waving white flags to indicate they were not a threat to the soldiers.
However, the soldiers opened fire and killed them anyway, apparently thinking they were Palestinian civilians.
The incident suggested that Israeli troops were implementing a “shoot to kill” policy against Palestinian males, including unarmed civilians.
The soldier speaking anonymously to Channel 13 revealed that he was one of the soldiers who shot and killed Yotam Haim and the other two Israeli captives during the incident.
“I fire 500 bullets a minute. I blow things up. I don’t care. I’m here to kill terrorists,” he stated, describing his state of mind during his tour in Gaza.
“There are three terrorists, I’ll kill them. Then I realized two had already been killed, and one had escaped.”
Haim’s mother said that the soldiers had effectively been ordered to “kill every person walking on two legs.”
“If a terrorist moves toward me, I try to kill him. I do not try to arrest him,” the commander of the brigade that killed her son told her.
“Of course, we need to kill him – yes, even if he is completely unarmed.”
Another soldier told Channel 13 that troops were instructed to view any Palestinian as a threat.
“Even an old man can blow himself up with an explosive device. The protocol was to shoot them,” he said, adding that “there was a situation where a person came out with a white flag and was shot on the spot.”
Israeli snipers in Gaza have regularly targeted Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in a deliberate manner.
ICYMI: Netanyahu continues to use genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians in Gaza🇵🇸, de-facto commanding the IDF to kill all and spare no one:
"You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible."
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— Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV) October 29, 2023
The first major case to break headlines in western media was the murder of two Christian women at Gaza City’s Holy Family Church on 16 December 2023. A Palestinian Catholic mother and her daughter were killed by an Israeli sniper while seeking refuge inside the church compound, resulting in condemnation from the pope.
In January 2024, British broadcaster ITV captured the moment when 51-year-old Ramzi Abu Sahloul was shot through the chest, only moments after he had spoken on air. Sahloul was part of a group of civilians who were fleeing to Rafah in Gaza’s south while holding white flags on the orders of the Israeli military.
A British surgeon who traveled to Gaza to volunteer reported that Israeli snipers regularly targeted Palestinian women and children.
“Looking back, it is the images of injured children that will never leave me. One evening, I operated on seven-year-old Amer, who had been shot by one of the drones that descend immediately after a bombing to pick off those who are running away, all civilians,” stated British surgeon Nizam Mamode to The Guardian after his return to London in February 2025.
“He had sustained injuries to his liver, spleen, and bowel, and had part of his stomach protruding through his chest. I was so glad to see him survive. But we saw patients like him every day, and most were not so lucky,” Mamode explained.
Particularly disturbing were the cases in which the children were killed with a “bullet to the head, which was clearly the result of deliberate sniper fire,” he added.
Israeli forces have killed more than 72,700 Palestinians in Gaza during the two-year genocide, the majority of whom were women and children. Thousands more remain missing and are believed to be buried beneath the rubble.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are expected to die from the indirect effects of the war, including from Israel’s destruction of the strip’s medical, water, and electricity infrastructure.
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