Israel killing Palestinians ‘like we haven't since 1967’, top commander says

Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli army's Central Command in the occupied West Bank, stated in a closed forum that Israeli forces are killing Palestinians at levels "not seen since 1967," according to Haaretz, and defended looser rules of engagement permitting troops to fire at unarmed Palestinians. Bluth acknowledged a discriminatory approach in which Jewish Israeli stone-throwers are not targeted while Palestinians engaged in similar acts are fired upon, and cited 1,500 Palestinian deaths over three years while questioning why no uprising has occurred.