# I Pit Babale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 484
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/484 "2025-06-27T15:30:41Z")
In response to a Haaretz article in which IDF soldiers report they’ve been ordered to shoot unarmed civilians who posed no threat, while waiting for food, and using “Squid Games”-like instructions to those civilians, resulting in death for those that “break the rules”, Babale waves it all away: > [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/4594): > > Because the area surrounding the food site is not open to the public when the site isn’t distributing food. And after soldiers signal that this is a combat zone not open to civilians by firing warning shots, and people keep approaching them anyways, I have no idea how you or the article can determine that the soldiers or aid workers are not under threat in that situation. roll_eyes The fact that (an anonymous source claims that) some 18 year olds employ some gallows humor when under incred… Just gallows humor. No big deal to Babale! There’s always an excuse for why the latest incident of mass murder is okay… even if an IDF soldier involved specifically says it was wrong! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738)._