What I can say about the armored corps, is that anyone they saw acting as a lookout, they fired into that house until it burned up and collapsed. That’s what was on the two-way radio. Say someone was spotted in a building 200 meters from them, they would start firing at the nearby houses. A tank with more advanced equipment would be the first to make an identification, and it directed the other tanks as to where to fire. Every time it identified a target it directed the other tanks’ fire. What you could hear on the radio was “Fire,” the locating of targets, house number so and so, some [other soldier] shooting an HMG (heavy machine gun), “No, another one to the left... No, another one to the left… A bit more… perfect,” and then a shell.

Heavy machine gun fire was used to locate the house and then a shell would be fired? Yes. That’s the idea. When you identify a person looking out from a house, from a balcony or a window. Whether he was or wasn’t using any lookout aids, I wouldn’t know – but it doesn’t matter, one shoots in that direction, with intent to kill. When a shell is fired at it there is no expectation that anybody inside will stay alive.

Are we talking about a moment when tanks are coming under fire? No. This is for when [the Palestinian who was spotted] doesn’t constitute a direct threat, not for when there’s an anti-tank missile being fired at us.