Written orders carried by Hamas fighters sent to attack Israeli towns and settlements last weekend contained the same chilling command: Kill as many people as possible.
Documents recovered from the bodies of dead militants at the sites of attacks that killed more than 1,300 Israelis point to a deliberate strategy to massacre civilians, Israeli officials said.
The similarity of the orders given to attack teams, along with videos posted by the attackers themselves, eyewitness testimony, and the scale of civilian killings in multiple locations—at least 1,000 in total—suggest that the massacre wasn’t a byproduct of the attack but a central objective.
Israel has been deliberately killing civilians for a while now. Like full on bombing open-roof trucks full of women and children (including babies, like the ones who were supposedly beheaded at the start of the attack) evacuating along the supposed safe route. Calling what’s going on in Gaza collateral damage only helps Israel whitewash its war crimes.