“Is he a Jew? Then you defend him. “
I will wait for the investigation to determine what the facts are here, but if the allegations are correct, then what happened is murder and there is no defense. Numerous poskim have been speaking out on this, that it is asur to harm a terrorist who has been neutralized.
You wouldn’t defend Bugsy Siegel or Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, would you?
“If you are on the fence about following protocol with terrorists”
If you are on the fence about following protocol if you are in the military you should not be in the military and if you violate protocol you should expect a court-martial. The IDF is the most moral army in the world — anti-Semites have even blasted it for refusing to rape anyone — and we should support efforts to keep it that way.