According to the information, commanders have ordered soldiers to shoot at crowds. The purpose is to drive them away even if they have not posed any threat.
A soldier calls it a deadly field.
Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They are treated as a hostile force – no measures to control the crowds, no tear gas – just live fire with everything you can think of: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers. When the center opens, the shooting stops and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.
"Collapse"
A soldier describes the situation as a collapse of the Israeli military's ethical rules in Gaza.
549 people have been killed in the last month near places where aid is being distributed and in areas where people have been waiting for food deliveries, according to the Hamas-controlled health department in Gaza.
Thousands of people come to the distribution centers, which are usually open for one hour every morning. People who arrive early are shot at to prevent them from approaching, according to the soldiers' testimonies.
19 shootings
The aid organization Doctors Without Borders demanded on Friday that the aid from the Israeli-American organization Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) be stopped and branded it as "slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid", reports AFP.
GHF began distributing aid in Gaza at the end of May. This happened after Israel's blockade in the spring and after the UN and other established organizations were shut out.
Since the distribution centers opened, Haaretz has counted 19 shootings in their vicinity.
