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Breaking the Silence is a group which collects secret testimonies from former soldiers to try to enlighten the Israeli public as to the true nature of the army’s activities in the West Bank and Gaza.
This week it took testimonies from soldiers who served in previous Israeli operations in the region.
They do not include anything from the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Staff Sgt Shai Davidovich
Field intelligence, 2012, Northern Gaza Strip
We were positioned east of Beit Hanoun. People are walking around in the streets with lots of children hanging about.
I see kids on bicycles in a street where shells are falling and the children run around free.
Our mission was to shoot at sources of fire. You see houses but it’s very difficult to detect a target. You can’t be precise – you can’t really aim.
Captain Oded Kimron
Shaldag airforce commandos, 2004, Rafah
On the first day we shot no one; we actually did nothing, while from time to time – every one or two hours – a message from the commander arrived:
‘What’s going on guys? Why have you not started killing yet? What’s going on there?’
All around us there was destruction on a scale I had not seen before – of houses, greenhouses, and roads.
Everything there just became a bunch of sand dunes. All the while, I am repeatedly asked by the force commander:
‘Why aren’t you shooting? What is going on? Why aren’t you killing anybody?’ Non-stop pressure.
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