An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs.

The Haaretz report includes firsthand testimony from multiple Israeli soldiers, one of whom described his post as a “killing field,” where “between one and five people were killed every day.” Another said civilians are treated “like a hostile force,” even though “there’s no enemy, no weapons.”

The incident on June 24 was one of the single deadliest for Israeli soldiers since the war’s start, with a death toll larger than all but a handful from the war’s fiercest period in the first half