“Stopped caring about people’s life,” is no excuse for what IDF soldiers did in Gaza, but it is still the government policy blamed for civilian deaths, former IDGF soldier and researcher at Breaking the Silence Nadav Bigelman, told RT’s In the Now.
NGO Breaking the Silence has interviewed more than 60 Israeli Defense Force soldiers and released a report which includes IDF soldiers’ testimonies about last summer’s Gaza war. According to some of these testimonies Israeli Forces violated international law which led to huge civilian casualties.
Nadav Bigelman: Maybe just a few words about Breaking the Silence. We are an NGO of veteran soldiers who all served in the occupied territories – Gaza and the West Bank. I also served there for a few years in the West Bank as a combat soldier. Last summer after the war in Gaza, soldiers started coming to us and telling us these stories about what happened, about the rules of engagement and the orders of how you open fire towards people, civilians, towards everyone there. And soldiers were starting to tell us “Listen this is something we have never been exposed to.” The orders they got were very simple – there are no such things as civilians in Gaza while you are fighting there. Maybe just a small example:
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