By: Middle East Eye | Date: November 12, 2025 | Youtube.com
In a new ITV documentary, Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, former Israeli soldiers describe how Gaza civilians were killed, often without warning, in an environment where “anything that moves” became a target. In the hour-long film, soldiers reveal how young and unarmed Palestinians were used as human shields in what they called the “mosquito protocol.” Testimonies describe indiscriminate fire, flattened neighbourhoods, and orders that left many questioning their own roles in the violence.
In the two years of genocide against Gaza, 83 per cent of those killed have been civilians, a figure calculated from Israel’s own estimates. While Israel continues to deny any wrongdoing, these accounts expose what director Ben Zand describes as “actions and decisions that the world was never meant to see”. Support stories that matter.
