Middle East: Reports: Looting by Israeli troopers in Lebanon | EUROtoday

Despite a robust warning from the Chief of General Staff, the Israeli military is having issue stopping suspected looting by troopers in southern Lebanon, in response to media studies. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot quoted an unnamed reservist as saying he had witnessed a number of circumstances of looting in Lebanon.

“We met a lot of reserve units at the border, they took everything with them – weapons, souvenirs, jewelry, blankets, pictures,” reported the soldier. In one other case, nonetheless, he skilled how an Israeli commander prevented troopers from taking looted property into Israel. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz additionally reported that troopers had looted personal homes and companies in Lebanon whose residents or homeowners had fled the preventing. There had already been related studies in the course of the Gaza warfare.

Military chief known as looting “reprehensible”

Almost per week in the past, Israeli Chief of General Staff Ejal Zamir warned sharply about attainable looting by troopers in a speech to senior army officers. “The phenomenon of looting, if it exists, is reprehensible and can bring the entire army into disrepute,” he stated, in response to media studies. “If there have been such incidents, we will investigate them. We will not move on to business as usual.”

Zamir subsequently instructed the accountable commanders to submit an in depth report on the difficulty inside per week. If there are any indications of wrongdoing, they need to be handed over to the army police for legal prosecution.