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[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There’s a witness account where an Israeli citizen from one of the kibbutzim, locked in his safe room, describes getting a phone call from an IDF helicopter operator who asks, “Are there terrorists in your home? If so, I’m blowing up the house.”

In footage published by the biggest Israeli news site Ynet (Yediot) as well as by Israeli Channel 12, you can see Israeli helicopter operators opening fire on what they estimate as “300 targets” that day, including on people fleeing from the dance party, while they admit being unable to differentiate partygoers from Palestinian militants, saying Hamas operatives were instructed “to walk, in order to confuse” the Israeli Air Force, and that they were “in a dilemma, not knowing who to shoot, because there were so many.”

still the most complete report on oct 7th,

https://brooklynrail.org/2024/05/field-notes/The-Gaza-Ghetto-Uprising

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and that they [the Israeli Air Force] were “in a dilemma, not knowing who to shoot, because there were so many."

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 4 months ago

I had been wondering how so many cars got charred when Hamas was only armed with light weapons. I guess the answer is the Israeli Air Force.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hamas wanted hostages. Corpses are worthless at best and counterproductive at worst.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 4 months ago

Let's wait and see, Israel had said that it will not investigate incidents of friendly fire on Oct 7.