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Sexta-feira, dia 22 de agosto de 2014  
Members of Hamas shot dead 18 Palestinian collaborators of Israel and warned that others would follow. Meanwhile the IDF carried out about 30 strikes.
One Israeli child is killed by a rocket fire, the first and only minor to be killed in Israel. The four-year-old's death made the headlines. Only the day before, the IDF had killed four Palestinian children about the same age.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Friday, August 22. Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 22 de agosto.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
  1. Mahmoud Nasser Qashlan, 24, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
  2. Yassin Hamed Abu Hamad, 22, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
  3. Ismael Mosallam Abu Bteihan, 75, Nusseirat – Central Gaza
  4. Ahmad Qassem Al-‘Abadla, 59, Khan Younis
  5. Mousa Ahmad Al-‘Abadla, 23, Khan Younis
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
77 The lives of our soldiers come before the lives of enemy civilians
Rank Staff Sergeant.   Unit: Mechanized infantry.   Area: Gaza strip:
[Combat engineering forces] blew up a lot of houses, even while we were there [in the Gaza Strip]. Here, too, the question arises about the operational benefit versus the cost. There are all kinds of considerations about why to blow up a house. One of them, for example, is when you want to defend some other house. If there’s a house blocking your field of vision, [and you want to] expose the area so that it’s easier to defend. 
Did you do that?
We didn’t blow up the houses but yeah, the company did it, the battalion commander and company commander decide on it. Sometimes we blew up a house when we suspected there was an explosive device in it, but I think ultimately we blew up pretty much the entire neighborhood. There are other considerations as well: “Hamas could set up a lookout post there, so let’s blow up the house” or stuff like that. I think there was operational justification for blowing up houses – but the policy was a bit trigger-happy. There was this bumper sticker during the operation that said, ‘The lives of our soldiers come before the lives of enemy civilians.’ This was sort of the policy because all these things really help protect the lives of IDF soldiers, and so the question becomes, where is the line? Or in which cases do we risk the lives of IDF soldiers because of certain values, because of ethics? That’s a big question. If I, as a commander, need to take over house number 22 and on the way there there’s this little house number 21, and the D9 (armored bulldozer) can raze it so that it poses no risk to me… This wasn’t the choice I made, but that’s the way the scales were balanced. Either I don’t take it down and it keeps posing a risk, or
63"There was no electricity or water. The electrical poles were leveled too"
Rank: Staff Sergeant.   Unit: Mechanized infantry:
I don’t know how much [what I saw] was similar to what was going on in the areas around us, but there was no electricity or water. The electrical poles were leveled too, but I think the electricity was down before that already. The D9 (armored bulldozer) passed through and the electrical poles were in its way. I don’t know if it was a clear order, or just collateral. From the first day we entered Gaza there was no electricity – or water, either. There was a house that had a bathroom that for some reason a Puma (a type of APC) or Merkava tank tore down a wall and broke its only functioning bathroom. We (the forces positioned in the house) were in there and it was dirty, the rugs, and the whole mess we made there. And in another house we broke a window when we entered and there were lots of holes from heavy machine gun fire. The refrigerator got shot. There were ‘suspicious points,’ so they fired at refrigerators.
Because they thought someone could hide inside a refrigerator? 
Or put explosives inside. Piles of blankets were fired at, too, and the closets had bullet holes in them. And broken windows, things like that, mostly. We didn’t have camouflage netting because they were on the APC that left, so we took all kinds of curtains and stuck them up and stretched them, and that was our lookout post

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