Posted on 03/28/2025 9:49:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tel Aviv — The war is back in Gaza. Since abandoning a ceasefire on March 17, the Israel Defense Forces have pounded the Palestinian territory with waves of deadly strikes it says are targeting Hamas terrorists. Those strikes have brought the overall death toll in Gaza to well over 50,000 since the beginning of the war, according to the enclave's Hamas-run Health Ministry.
CBS News spoke recently with an Israeli soldier who has questioned the military's tactics. Tommy — not his real name, as he agreed to speak with CBS News on the condition of anonymity — fought in Gaza for the IDF, and his account of the tactics used raises some serious questions.
"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection."
Tommy said his commander ordered his unit to use Gazan civilians to search buildings for explosives instead of dogs.
"They were Palestinian," he said. "We sent them in first to see if the building was clear and check for booby traps…They were trembling and shaking."
"We talked to our commander, and we asked him to stop doing it," Tommy said, but they were ordered to continue. He told CBS News it was policy.
The practice even has a name — the "mosquito protocol" — according to Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who say they're working to expose military abuses. The group told CBS News that several IDF whistleblowers had confirmed the protocol was widespread in Gaza.
Breaking the Silence has acted as a watchdog body over the Israeli military for more than 20 years. It said it had corroborated Tommy's account with other soldiers.
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I’d wager that “Tommy” is not an Israeli Soldier, and that there is a 50-50 chance he is not even Israeli.
His story’s so touching, but it sounds just like a lie.
CBS : enemy of God’s people : you fool, the day will come, maybe tomorrow, when the God of Israel will bring terrible judgment upon you. God is NOT mocked...
No sympathy here. There is no distinction between Gaza civilians and terrorists. Gaza citizens participated in holding Israeli hostages. It is unfortunate but Gaza citizens have aligned with the terrorists and therefore need to be treated a terrorists.
Yes some are maybe innocent, but more likely they knew of terrorist activities and ignored it. If you aren’t against it you are for it in war.
Typical propaganda.
You’re right.
FAFO
Considering the value that Palestinians put on human life, how could their kids serve as human shields for The Jew?
Story is BS.
I will assume he is a delusional, mentally ill, “self-loathing Jew” (a category for a long time) who is like the people who want to kill themselves to help the environment buy being one less mouth to feed for Mother Nature. Screwball——and a traitor.
Also like the 1950s American Communists who were secretly working to undermine the US while pretending to be normal people. In Masters of Deceit, J. Edgar Hoover described their secret group meetings and how they sabotaged America and gave away corporate and military information. Often said “The US is much too dominant in the world and it is better for world peace to cut it down a few pegs.”
BS lie.
This sounds like something right out of the Islamic terrorist Hamas/Hasbulla propaganda playbook. Figures that CBS would report it.
Relax :)
If it’s being done, it’s wrong..
Remember that stuff about all of God’s creatures? :)
Israel had every right to go ballistic after the HORRIFIC attacks.
And I wont lose sleep if they are using palestinians to check for bombs.
But it is wrong.
That being said, it’s WAR...rules for war are kinds of silly as the point of a war is to win...and palestians brought down the thunder.
Few are impartial..the vast majority hate Israel.
So it is what it is. They become human bomb detectors.
That dont make it right, but it makes it understandable.
The Palestinians use their own civilians as shields all the time. They’re used to it. If they mean that little to their own side why should anyone expect the Israelis to take the high road?
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CBS airing such anonymous nonsense is yet more proof that it is the enemy of all that is good.
Probably bs but I hope it’s true
TAQIYYA. Not a single political word said by a Muslim can be trusted.
NOT. A. SINGLE. WORD.
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