{"id":11877,"date":"2025-06-27T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11877"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:04:06","slug":"netanyahu-denies-military-ordered-troops-to-fire-on-gaza-aid-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11877","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu denies military ordered troops to fire on Gaza aid seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected a report that the country\u2019s military commanders ordered their soldiers to fire at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Left-leaning daily Haaretz earlier quoted unnamed soldiers as saying commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds near aid distribution centres to disperse them even when they posed no threat.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations followed repeated reports by eyewitnesses and local authorities over recent weeks of deadly incidents around aid distribution centres in the territory, where Israeli forces are battling Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Haaretz said the military advocate general, the force\u2019s top legal authority, had instructed the force to investigate \u201csuspected war crimes\u201d at aid sites.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by AFP, the Israeli military declined to comment on that particular claim<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel \u201cabsolutely rejects the contemptible blood libels\u201d and \u201cmalicious falsehoods\u201d in the Haaretz article.<\/p>\n<p>The military said in a separate statement that it \u201cdid not instruct the forces to deliberately shoot at civilians, including those approaching the distribution centres\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Israeli military \u201cdirectives prohibit deliberate attacks on civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After more than 20 months of devastating conflict, rights groups say Gaza\u2019s population of more than two million faces famine-like conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza says more than 500 people have been killed near aid centres since late May, when a new US- and Israeli-backed foundation began distributing aid.<\/p>\n<p>The privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation denies that deadly incidents have occurred in the immediate vicinity of its aid points.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu and Katz added in their statement: \u201cThe soldiers of the (Israeli military) receive clear orders to avoid harming innocents \u2013 and operate accordingly.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected a report that the country\u2019s military commanders ordered their soldiers to fire at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza. Left-leaning daily Haaretz earlier quoted unnamed soldiers as saying commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds near aid distribution centres to disperse them even when they posed no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}