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• Soldier testimonies in new ITV documentary describe civilians killed without posing a clear threat, challenging official IDF narratives
• Critics say ‘Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War’ relies on selective statements, while filmmaker says accounts deserve scrutiny

DUBAI: Unarmed and unaware of their impending fate, two teenage boys pushed a handcart along a Gazan street when, without warning, a shot rang out. One of the boys fell to the ground, shot in the head by an Israeli soldier with no discernible provocation.

This is just one of dozens of examples of alleged war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza revealed in a new documentary, “Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War,” which features the accounts of active and former combatants turned whistleblowers.

“If they walk too fast, they’re suspicious. If they walk too slow, they’re suspicious, they’re plotting something,” one soldier, whose identity is hidden, tells the interviewer, as he describes the incident of the two teenage boys.

“If three men walk and one is lagging, then that is two-to-one military formation. You can incriminate everyone. I can incriminate the whole strip if I want.”

The hour-long film, produced by documentary filmmaker Benjamin Zand, recounts several instances of civilians being killed, wholesale destruction of infrastructure without justification, and acts of vandalism.

It raises questions about the morality and ultimate aims of the Israeli military at a time when it has come...

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