Former IDF Chief of Intel to CNN: We are doing MORE to protect civilians than America did in Fallujah or WWII

The Pentagon is now weighing in on the civilian casualties in Gaza saying that Israel needs to do more to protect civilians. But the former IDF Chief of Intelligence, Retired Major General Amos Yadlin, says Israel is already doing more than even America did in Fallujah and in Germany in World War II, and he’d gladly debate any American journalist or spokesperson on this.

He also says that Israel has killed hundreds of Hamas terrorists, but that Hamas is only reporting the deaths of civilians, not their own members.

Watch:

BLITZER: When the State Department and the White House and now the Pentagon itself — a briefer at the Pentagon told reporters today, according to our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, civilian casualties in Gaza have been too high. It is clear the Israelis need to do more. We want them to do more. That’s from a spokesman, U.S. Department of Defense. What else should Israel be doing to prevent those images, those horrible pictures, that we’ve been seeing, the unusually high number of civilian deaths and injuries?

YADLIN: First of all, you have to understand that Hamas military terrorists are killed in hundreds, and they are not reporting it. They, of course, are putting all the cameras on the civilians.

BLITZER: So you say Israel has killed hundreds of Hamas –

YADLIN: Hundreds of Hamas militants in the tunnels, in the fighting on the ground, in the air. But they will show you only the civilians. And the civilians is heated because of the tactics of the terrorists. They shield behind the civilians. Where are Hamas leaders? They are in the bunkers. But they put outside near the rockets that they are launch to Israel—

BLITZER: Should Israel, the IDF, be doing more to prevent civilian casualties?

YADLIN: The IDF are doing more than the Americans have done in Fallujah and more than the Americans have done in Germany in the second world war. We are the moralist army in the world. We have a code of conduct that we are allowed to attack only terrorists. But the terrorists will not be immune if there are only civilians. And we called off a lot of attacks because there are too many civilians. So we are doing it to prevent the terrorists from firing into our country. And we will continue to do it. And i am really willing to have any debate with American journalists, spokesmen about how Israel is doing it compared to how America has done it.


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