I literally was talking to a friend comparing Israels crimes to Imperial Japan. This is the message I sent her yesterday:

I read somewhere that the reason this incident happened is because commanders in the chain have absolutely no oversight, and they essentially do whatever they want with no repercussions. So while there was an order given in the middle level of command, it wasn’t given by a higher level command. At the same time, they are not reprimanded, and if anything, there is probably a culture of tacit encouragement. This has echoes to the Rape of Nanking by Imperial Japan, when Japan was asked to explain themselves they said the generals didn’t give the orders but rather they ‘lost control of the troops’. So while there is not a bureaucracy making explicit decisions at the highest level of authority to commit these atrocities, there seems to be an unwritten rule that the IDF follows, very similar to the crimes against humanity carried out by Imperial Japan.