While shocking video evidence of undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrating a group of stone-throwers before shooting a Palestinian at point blank range must be seen to be believed, footage of death-chanting Israeli mobs rarely see the light of day. Witness footage of Israeli forces shooting 30-year-old mother Israa Abed would be deemed to graphic for mainstream.
But graphic is exactly what Palestine is, and the reason for the deadly increase in attacks by Israel’s trigger-happy army was revealed earlier today in a chilling allegation by ex-Israeli soldier Eran Efrati:
“In recent days I am getting reports from soldiers in the Israeli army who tell me that their rules of engagement were changed entirely and that procedures that were true to a certain extent only in Gaza and parts of the West Bank are now being implemented all across Palestine and Israel.”
Efrati claims “free permits” to open fire on any Palestinian citizen who seems suspicious are now being distributed. He says soldiers are discussing orders they have received that eliminate the apprehension of a suspect and the “suspect arrest procedure,” as well as any attempt to stop or talk with “a suspect.”
