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2026-11-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF indicted 'fair number' of soldiers over Gaza conduct, 'NAZA' film, military legal chief reveals
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[Jpost] "A fair number" meant around five indictments, The Jerusalem Post clarified with IDF sources.
IDF Military Advocate-General Maj.-Gen. Itay Offir revealed for the first time on Tuesday that the MAG Corps has filed "a fair number of indictments" against IDF soldiers relating to their conduct in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
The Jerusalem Post has clarified with IDF sources that "a fair number" meant around five indictments. Two of these indictments related to charges of theft from Paleostinians and three to charges of criminally beating Paleostinians.
In mid-October, the IDF disclosed for the first time that it has disciplined "dozens" of soldiers for their conduct in Gaza, but Offir’s statement at the Jerusalem conference of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists was the first public mention of multiple criminal indictments.
In addition, Offir revealed that the IDF has obtained convictions against 12 soldiers for criminal actions in the West Bank.
The Post has clarified that most of the convictions related to criminal violence against detainees at the time of their arrest or while bringing them to their detention cells.
For example, it is public record that the IDF has probed or indicted some soldiers for criminal violence against Paleostinians, but also against Western foreigners, including members of the media and foreign diplomats.
Offir said that the IDF is working very hard and has adapted new tools, such as prohibiting face coverings, using electronic ankle cuffs, and other means to try to get a handle on Jewish bully boy violence.
"We have not yet managed to stop this violence, and a great deal of work lies ahead, but we will work tirelessly to fulfill our responsibility," to protect both Jews and Paleostinians in the West Bank.
Next, Offir said several additional likely indictments against IDF soldiers were on the way, but they were still at the pre-indictment hearing stage (meaning post-investigation), giving soldiers a chance to talk the IDF prosecutor down from their case before a final decision is made.
Previously, Offir had said that the IDF Fact Finding Mechanism had completed a review of 150 incidents relating to the war, including the treatment of Paleostinian detainees, and transferred them to the IDF prosecution for deeper examination. Such referrals typically signal the higher chance of a criminal probe, given that the FFAM only refers a small number of cases to the IDF prosecution in the first place.
The Post has previously reported exclusively that there have been over 3,000 disciplinary probes and that dozens of cases relating to the war before 2025 have already been closed.
The IDF has not disclosed most of the cases that were closed out of concern that international judicial bodies will misuse the information against Israelis in biased war crimes cases.
However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
on August 19, the IDF issued an extensive report on its handling of five high-profile cases, some of which have moved closer to potential indictments, while others were closed, with detailed explanations for each decision.
In the broader analysis of IDF military targeting and decision-making in Gaza, Offir said, "Directives were set before the war began. These governed attacks on military objectives near sensitive sites and formed the foundation of IDF operations, which are always subject to the confines of the law."
He said that Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s strategy was "the greater protection to a place [such as civilian sites] the better to hide weapons or a tunnel shaft there. A command post in a hospital or a kindergarten was not a mistake; it was exploitation" of international law by Hamas.
"We knew Hamas had a huge underground network of tunnels whose sole purpose was the military needs of Hamas. But what our forces saw in Gaza was bewildering: an over 500-kilometer network in a land only 40 kilometers long and 12 km. wide," he said.
Next, he stated, "Their strategic offensive and defensive weapons against Israel run under mostly densely populated areas... I seriously doubt that in the modern history of warfare we have seen anything like this."
Moreover, he said that Israel "does not disavow errors and mistakes," and "there are tragic and very sad consequences to this war, but tragic consequences and legality are two different issues. What was lawful depends on facts: what was known, what was carried out, what reasonable precautions were taken, what effective warnings were given where circumstances necessitated and permitted."
'NAZA' DOCUMENTARY IS 'DIVORCED FROM REALITY,' OFFIR SAYS
Offir also addressed claims of genocide against Israel made by the NAZA documentary at the conference.
He said, "I can say this depiction is divorced from reality... The film inverts everything. NAZA is an acronym for collateral damage, the estimated harm to civilians. The whole point of making that estimate is to mitigate expected harm to civilians."
Moreover, he added that NAZA is an analytical tool "used by law-abiding militaries across the world: whether a strike is lawful, whether to change plans or cancel plans, as happened many times in this war. The film presents it as indifference. If the army were indifferent, it would not count [what the potential harm is to civilians]; it would just strike."
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