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January 23, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057962.html

IDF Officers Say Troops Behaved Morally in Gaza

[Ha'aretz] Amos Harel - Lt. Col. Avi, a battalion commander in the Paratrooper Brigade, insists that his men did everything possible to conduct themselves morally and limit civilian casualties. "At Atatra, a neighborhood in northern Gaza, we saw a light in a house and heard screams, and we let the families walk out with a white flag. I was very concerned about harming civilians. When we went into Gaza I told the soldiers: 'We are not like the Russians in Chechnya.' I was glad to see that the guys knew how to hold their fire."

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