israeli troops were given orders to raze agricultural land, destroy residential blocks and open fire on anyone who came near them to make way for deadly buffer zones in Gaza, a report by Israeli veterans’ group Breaking the Silence (BtS) has revealed.

According to israeli soldiers interviewed for the report, titled “The Perimeter”, the army created a perimeter, between 800 and 1500 metres in breadth and 1.5km inside the Gaza Strip, where “large swathes of the land were turned into massive kill zones”.

The soldiers said that the borders of such areas were invisible, constantly changing and were not communicated to Palestinians.