Seeing lots of "outrage" regarding the IDF shooting a Palestinian molotov-cocktail thrower.
"Excessive use of force" is often repeated, especially by people from the UK (with military security training).
What's the IDF's ROE regarding responses to rock/molotov throwers?
thats an attack with a deadly weapon
i wouldnt prohibit any of my soldiers to defend themselves from a slow death by burning
as far as ROE goes, atleast on my deployments, molotows werent specified.
but
there is, however, this go to example when beeing trained for guard duty:
a demonstrating crowd in front of the barracks main gate, and they are mostly peaceful
-one individual throws a molotow cocktail, what are you allowed to do?
youre allowed to open fire on the crowd to prevent that from happening
(they used molotow cocktails and guns interchangeably in this scenario)
i always thought it was kinda wild that youre allowed to do so, but it underlines the severity of such an attack
rocks are a different story i think