NEW YORK, (PIC)– A report issued by human rights watch (HRW) revealed that IOF troops killed 11 Palestinian civilians as they were waving white flags during the barbaric military aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The report entitled “White flag deaths” documented seven incidents in which Israeli soldiers fired on civilians during Israel’s major military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009.

It said that the soldiers deliberately killed 11 civilians including five women and four children and wounded at least eight others despite they were carrying white flags to avoid being targeted.

The report explained that those civilians were in groups and waved white headscarves or shirts, adding that Palestinian fighters were not hiding among the civilians who were shot.

In the killings documented in this report, HRW found no evidence that the civilian victims were used by Palestinian fighters as human shields or were shot in the crossfire between warring parties.

According to the report, Israeli soldiers, in each of the incidents, appeared in control over the areas they invaded, and Palestinian fighters had already withdrawn from those areas in question, while the civilian victims were in plain view and posed no apparent security threat