The printed t-shirts were discovered by an Israeli newspaper (Pic: courtesy of Yanai Yechiel)
T-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children. The t-shirts were printed for Israeli soldiers at the end of deployment or training courses.
According to Sky News, t-shirts printed for a platoon of Israeli snipers show a Palestinian pregnant women caught in the crosshairs of a rifle, with an English caption that reads "1 shot 2 kills". Another depicts a child in the center of a target with the words "The smaller, the harder", across it.
A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) says the t-shirts were printed by soldiers and "are not in accordance with IDF values and are simply tasteless. This type of humor is unacceptable and should be condemned".
Ex-soldier and campaigner with Breaking the Silence (website that posts stories from Israeli soldiers) , Michael Maniken, says that the shirts are an example of immoral conduct in the army. "The army keeps on saying we're talking about a few rotten apples but it seems the army doesn't understand there's a norm in this kind of action," he explained. "We're hearing about this time and time again and the army seems disconnected from reality."
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