{"id":326717,"date":"2026-05-05T06:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326717"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:25:25","slug":"killing-like-we-havent-since-1967-top-israeli-general-brags-about-shooting-palestinians-in-occupied-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326717","title":{"rendered":"‘Killing like we haven’t since 1967’: Top Israeli general brags about shooting Palestinians in occupied West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cradle \u2013 May 4, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Israeli military is killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank \u201clike we haven’t killed since 1967,\u201d including deliberately firing live ammunition at Palestinians trying to cross to Israel to find work and at Palestinian stone throwers, while refusing to do the same against Jewish settlers, Haaretz<\/em> reported<\/a> on 4 May.<\/p>\n

The Israeli army’s top commander in the occupied West Bank, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth recently bragged about killing such large numbers of Palestinians while speaking during a closed forum.<\/p>\n

The general \u201cexpressed pride\u201d that he had relaxed the rules of engagement for firing at Palestinians from the occupied West Bank trying to cross the massive barrier, or separation wall, to enter Israel in search of work.<\/p>\n

Bluth said the current rules of engagement permit soldiers to shoot Palestinians at or below the knee, creating a deterrent effect which he calls a \u201cbarrier consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA plasterer in [the West Bank city of] Ramallah earns 1,500 shekels ($510) a month and a plasterer in [the Israeli town of] Ramle earns 7,000 shekels a month, so of course he’s willing to risk being shot in the knee or a week of detention, if he succeeded in crossing over and can work in a bakery,\u201d Bluth explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of \u2018limping monuments\u2019 in Palestinian villages, of those who tried to [cross the barrier], so there is a price being paid,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n

The Israeli general also said Palestinians throwing rocks were engaged in \u201cterrorism,\u201d while bragging about how many his troops had killed last year.<\/p>\n

Bluth stated the the army discriminates between Jews and Palestinians in its enforcement policy against stone throwers, explaining that when \u201csoldiers fire on Jews,\u201d it has \u201cprofound sociological consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2025, we killed 42 stone-throwers on the roads,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

While the army has a \u201cshoot to kill\u201d policy for Palestinian stone throwers, the policy does not extend to Jewish settlers illegally living in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

Bluth admitted that he did not support troops shooting at Jewish settlers throwing rocks, Haaretz<\/em> noted, even though the danger is the same. He cited one incident in which his troops shot two people throwing rocks at cars before realizing they were Jewish settlers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit, for example, two masked Jews. I don’t know if you remember what a ruckus it made,\u201d Bluth said.<\/p>\n

The general noted another case in which a soldier shot a 15-year-old rock thrower in the shoulder before he heard him and the group of young men with him speaking Hebrew.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily, the Jews were not killed,\u201d Bluth commented.<\/p>\n

While Palestinians must be shot, Jews should be detained, Bluth argued. \u201cI’m not sure we need to go there, we don’t have to engage in shooting, and yes, it involves discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

The general also acknowledged discrimination against Palestinians regarding detentions. Palestinians are subject to administrative detention, which involves detaining a suspect for six months without trial. The six-month period can be renewed indefinitely, imprisoning Palestinians for years without a trial or charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know how many Arab administrative detainees there are? More than 4,000. There’s no administrative detention against Israelis, but there are 4,000 Palestinians in administrative detention,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Torture and rape of Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centers are rife. \u201cThe documented practices involved direct sexual assault, assaults with instruments, and torture focused on the genitals,\u201d Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bluth also told attendees at the forum that the army was using \u201cprecise aggression\u201d to prevent an uprising or intifada in the occupied West Bank since the start of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza in 2023.<\/p>\n

At the time, many expected mass Palestinian protests to erupt in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in support of Gaza, similar to those that erupted in 1987 and 2000 to oppose the occupation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is my advantage? It’s that I’m constantly engaging with [the Palestinians], I’m constantly turning villages into conflict zones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo how come there is no intifada? Why don’t they take to the streets? Why is the Palestinian public indifferent? Why are there no riots?\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He also boasted about killing Palestinian resistance fighters protecting their towns and refugee camps, such as in Jenin and Nablus, claiming they were involved in \u201cterrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf those 1,500 who were killed, 70 percent were carrying arms. The Arabs understand that \u2018If someone comes to kill you, kill them first\u2019 is the norm in the Middle East, so we’re killing like we haven’t killed since 1967.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2018, the Israeli High Court ruled<\/a> that the Israeli military’s firing of live ammunition at Palestinian protesters was lawful. The decision came in response to a petition filed by two Israeli human rights groups, Adalah and Al Mezan. The petition demanded that the court order the Israeli military to stop using snipers and live ammunition in order to disperse Palestinian protests in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

At the time, unarmed Palestinian refugees were demonstrating near the Gaza border fence to demand a return to the homes and lands inside what is now Israel.<\/p>\n

Following the protests, Israeli snipers speaking to Haaretz <\/em>bragged<\/a> about the number of Palestinians they had crippled by deliberately shooting them in the knees.<\/p>\n

One sniper said he had the most hits in his battalion: \u201cWhen I came back from the field, they would ask, \u2018Well, how many today?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to understand that before we showed up, knees were the hardest thing to rack up. There was a story about one sniper who had 11 knees all told, and people thought no one could outdo him. And then I brought in seven, eight knees in one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Israeli army’s top commander in the occupied West Bank, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, isn\u2019t bragging about the number of armed Palestinian resistance fighters shot. He\u2019s boasting about the number Palestinian protesters and stone throwers crippled or killed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":203672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326718,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326717\/revisions\/326718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}