NOVANEWS
by 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 with “free permits” to open live fire on any Palestinian citizen whoseems suspicious.
All of the soldiers were talking about the orders they received that completely eliminate the apprehension of a suspect or even the “suspect arrest procedure” the infamous IDF practice as well as any attempt to stop or talk with “a suspect”.
One of the soldiers stationed in Hebron said that a senior officer who arrived to brief them over the weekend told them “it will not look good if the settlers (most of whom have more upgraded weapons than some of the soldiers themselves which they received from the army) would murder suspects on the streets and that if any event to happen we need to react faster and neutralize them (the Palestinians) before the settlers will. “
If these things are true then senior officers in the Israeli army are briefing soldiers to assassinate Palestinians to prevent settler violence and reassure them, the number of Palestinians killed in this uprising could very well be only the number that will satisfy the Israeli public and settlers and if that is indeed the case then we very might be at the start of a bloodbath. The Israeli public in its current state will not be content and will not settle as usual for the current situation to calm down. The images and sounds from Jerusalem and Afula make it clear they want to see blood.