Iran Press/Middle East: Official Israeli sources now admit that they were well aware that Palestinians were being killed when even the Tel Aviv regime did not claim that this is justified. Despite the fact, no one is taking action to amend the open-fire policy of the Israeli army. Instead, the army continued with its trial-and-error approach, ignoring the fact that human lives were at stake; people whose lives have been taken, and families who have been permanently devastated.
Carmela Menashe, a reporter for Kan News, reported that the Israeli army has now decided to change the open-fire regulations for snipers "after it emerged that firing at the lower limbs above the knee led, in most cases, to death, despite the fact that this was not the objective."
Moreover, Israeli armed forces have been briefed to shoot below the knee and then at the ankle.
A senior officer at the Israeli army’s so-called Counter-Terrorism School stated that the snipers’ objective “is not to kill but to injure, and accordingly one of the lessons learned related to the direction toward which they fire… At first, we told them to shoot at the leg. We saw that this can result in fatalities, so we told them to shoot below the knee, then we fine-tuned the regulations to shooting at the ankle.”
The decision to change the regulations only now, after more than a year during which they led to the deaths of at least 206 Palestinians, including 37 minors, and the injury of thousands, in no way suggests that the Israeli army attaches great value to human life.
On the contrary, it shows that the Israeli army consciously chose not to regard those standing on the other side of the fence as humans. In its naivety, Israel's High Court also approved this practice. Thus both the army and courts of law bear responsibility for this criminal policy.
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