Overview
- Haaretz reported Monday that Maj Gen Avi Bluth told a closed forum the army is “killing like we haven’t killed since 1967” and claimed 1,500 Palestinians were killed in three years, with no immediate military rebuttal.
- According to the report, Bluth said troops do not shoot Jewish Israelis who throw stones but do fire on Palestinians who do so, adding that forces killed 42 alleged stone-throwers in 2025.
- Bluth described looser rules that let soldiers shoot Palestinians “from the knee down” at the West Bank barrier and spoke of many wounded people he called “limping memorials” in Palestinian villages.
- United Nations data cited in the coverage says Israeli forces have killed 1,081 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, 2023, including at least 235 children.
- In Nablus the same day, Palestinian media said 26-year-old Nayef Feras Samaro died after a head wound from Israeli fire, while the army said a violent confrontation involved Palestinians throwing stones at troops.