A series of video clips showing the disgraceful behavior of Israeli occupation army soldiers in the Gaza Strip, which were widely disseminated on social media platforms, has caused international criticism towards Israel due to its handling of the war and the high number of civilian casualties.
In the face of what it described as a small number of isolated cases committed by some of its soldiers, the Israeli army pledged to take disciplinary measures, according to a report published by the British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph”.
The newspaper quoted critics of these actions as saying that the video clips reflect a general mood in Israel that strongly supports the war, with little sympathy for the plight of civilians in Gaza.
A clip posted on the X platform shows soldiers trying to set fire to food aid and water containers loaded in the back of an abandoned truck in Gaza.
Other clips also showed soldiers riding bicycles – left by Gazan children – roaming, laughing, among the rubble of buildings destroyed by the bombing.
In another scene, a soldier was shown taking prayer rugs to the bathroom, and another depicted boxes of underwear found in a house.
If lions are absent, hyenas appear
Occupation soldiers riding the bicycles of the children they bombed.#Mecca_now #Gaza now pic.twitter.com/0gLuNNdW1c– Noura Al-Harbi (@n_alharbi112) December 4, 2023
They sing and dance
A video clip posted on the “X” platform by Yinon Magal, a “conservative Israeli media personality,” showed dozens of soldiers dancing and chanting a song that included the phrase, “We came to invade Gaza. We know, and our slogan is: No uninvolved people,” in an apparent reference to the lack of Their distinction between resistance fighters and civilians.
Magal said he did not know the soldiers involved, but the Associated Press checked the backgrounds, uniforms of the soldiers and the language heard in the videos and found them consistent with independent reports.
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Magal said that the video struck a chord with the Israelis, because of the popular melody of the song, and because the Israelis needed to see images of the mighty army, which was taken from the “fight chant” of the Beitar Jerusalem football team, whose fanatical fans have a history of racist chants against Arabs.
Magal condemned some other clips, including the looting of a toy store in which a soldier smashed the toys and beheaded a plastic statue, considering this behavior unnecessary and contrary to Israel’s goals of war, as he put it.