More proof of Israel’s genocidal intent and actions comes from an investigation conducted by the New York Times, which discovered that since 7 October 2023, the Israeli military issued an order that allowed the killing of up to 20 Palestinian civilians with each strike. In terms of an order, the report states, the official leniency of killing Palestinian civilians was unprecedented. An anonymous Israeli senior military officer who spoke anonymously attributed the order to Israel allegedly facing an existential threat.

The following paragraph stands out amid the report:

On a few occasions, senior commanders approved strikes on Hamas leaders that they knew would each endanger more than 100 noncombatants — crossing an extraordinary threshold for a contemporary Western military.

A hundred Palestinian civilians is also considerably higher than the limit of 20 stipulated by the military order. Also notably and giving........

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