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How Israel is ‘bombing Gaza blind’ with old intelligence
Exclusive: Israeli servicemen say ‘serious structural problems’ mean ‘masses of targets’ are attacked and killed without thorough intelligence evaluations, writes Bel Trew
Artikel is van 2020 maar gaat in meer detail over de werkwijze van het IDF bij bombardementen.
The Israeli military regularly strikes sites in Gaza using out-of-date intelligence that can be well over a year old, bombing “blind” with no real-time check for civilians causing unnecessary deaths, Air Force personnel have revealed.
Instead, Israeli air force members told The Independent “serious structural problems” and a culture of “destroy, destroy, destroy” rewards military personnel for identifying fresh targets on the 25-mile long strip rather than checking the validity of thousands already in the database, known as the “bank”.
The same air force intelligence member said that at “a systematic level, masses of targets are being bombed without visual check as there are not enough drones.”
“The atmosphere is not encouraging people to take [verification of targets] seriously. There is less discipline. It is a price that civilians pay,” “A” added.
A second member of the air force (“B”), told The Independent this becomes a major issue during longer operations, like 2014 when for a lack of targets, the orders were to “simply keep dropping bombs” anywhere in order to “make noise”.
“There was a lot of focus on, I can say with certainty, making noise. Those were the words that were said too, ‘to make noise’, to create a sense of fear on the other side, a sense that [the conflict] was continuing,” “B” added.
These allegations were corroborated by other testimonies from personnel collected by Israeli organisation Breaking the Silence (BtS)and handed to The Independent.
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