‘Controlling the crowd by fire’ at Israeli aid sites: Haaretz journalist

Killings of Palestinians at US, Israeli aid distribution sites in Gaza are part of an Israeli military directive to “control” crowds, according to Nir Hasson, a journalist at Israeli outlet Haaretz, who revealed this finding today in a report alongside his colleagues. “It’s actually a practice of … controlling the crowd by fire, like if you wanted the crowd to run off [from] a place, you shoot them at them, even though you know they are unarmed … You use fire to move people from one point to another,” Hasson told Al Jazeera, speaking from West Jerusalem. While the journalist and his colleagues do not know the name of the commander who might have issued such a directive, Hasson said that he would likely hold a position high up in the army. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Gaza #Palestine #HumanitarianCrisis #GazaUnderAttack #Displacement #gazahumanitariancrisis #MiddleEastNews #idf #israel #AlJazeeraEnglish