Gaza (QNN)- Israeli soldiers have described a complete breakdown of order and legal restraint in Gaza, where Palestinian civilians were killed during the genocide at the whim of individual officers. According to testimony in the TV documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening and reported by The Guardian, all Israeli soldiers pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians. “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israeli occupation forces tank unit, says. The soldiers confirmed the military’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians seeking food handouts at aid distribution centers run by the infamous US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There’s no such thing as ‘means, intent and ability’ in Gaza,” Yotam Vilk, an armoured corps officer, says. “No soldier ever mentions ‘means, intent, and ability’. It’s just: a suspicion of walking where it’s not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40.” Another soldier, Eli, says: “Life and death isn’t determined by procedures or opening fire regulations. It’s the conscience of the commander on the ground that decides.” In those circumstances, the designation of who is an enemy or terrorist becomes arbitrary, Eli says in the documentary. “If they’re walking too fast, they’re suspicious. If they’re walking too slow, they’re suspicious. They’re plotting something. If three men are walking and one of them lags behind, it’s a two-to-one infantry formation – it’s a military formation,” he says. Eli describes an incident in which a senior officer ordered a tank to demolish a building in an area designated as safe for civilians. “A man was standing on the roof, hanging laundry, and the officer decided that he was a spotter. He’s not a spotter. He’s hanging his laundry. You can see that he’s hanging laundry,” he says. “Now, it’s not as if this man had binoculars or weapons. The closest military force was 600-700 metres away. So unless he had eagle eyes, how could he possibly be a spotter? And the tank fired a shell. The building half collapsed. And the result was many dead and wounded.” Several investigations and reports by human rights organizations found that the majority of those killed during the genocide were civilians. More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war started and more continue to be killed by Israeli forces despite a ceasefire that began a month ago. Some of the soldiers interviewed in the Breaking Ranks programme said they were influenced by the language of Israeli politicians suggesting that every Palestinian was a legitimate target. A UN commission concluded in September that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. On the question of intent, it pointed to incitement from Israeli leaders such as the president, Isaac Herzog, who said: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true, this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, it’s absolutely not true.” Daniel says in the documentary that the rhetoric declaring there was no such thing as an innocent in Gaza seeped down into army ranks. “You hear that all the time, so you start to believe it,” he says. The programme also provides evidence that such views have been supported by some rabbis in the ranks. “One time, the brigade rabbi sat down next to me and spent half an hour explaining.. that we must take revenge on all of them, including civilians. That we shouldn’t discriminate, and that this is the only way,” says Maj Neta Caspin. Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, an extremist Jewish cleric who served more than 500 days in Gaza, says in the programme: “Everything there is one big terrorist infrastructure.” The soldiers giving their accounts in Breaking Ranks also confirm consistent reports throughout the two-year genocide of the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, a practice informally known as the “mosquito protocol”.