Insights on Gaza Conflict and Military Actions
This war zone is a wild west, no rules,
absolute apocalypse.
What kind of mentality were your commanders trying to get you
into
before you went into Khan Yunis?
When you look at the atmosphere of the, of Israel after December
October, everything went nuts. People have
been apathetic towards the suffering of Palestinians for so long.
They had no idea what was going on in Gaza,
and the way people spoke
after this was just insane. And they're speaking about
killing all of the Gazians. Some of the people just really
are driven by crazy, insane religious ideas.
They are extremists who believe that Jews should live
everywhere around the ancient Israel, and this was just an opportunity for them
to kill as many Gazians as they can and
kick them out and get their lands. They're saying this quite clearly.
Yuval served in the 66th Battalion as a medic.
I sent Yuval the pictures of Jonathan Berman outside the school
and asked how he felt seeing these images.
Felt awful, really. Takes me back to one of the worst times of
my
life.
This destruction,
it just,
it's just, it's so difficult to see.
These videos, believed to have come from the 66th
Battalion,
show them blowing up this mosque and numerous residential
buildings in Khan Yunis in late 2023.
Damaging schools and houses for no military purpose would be
a war crime under the Geneva Convention.
50 days after we went into Gaza,
they're telling us to burn down the houses we were at.
And I go to my commander and I ask him, "Why are we burning down
those houses?"
And he has no good answer.
Absolutely no good answer. If you were to destroy a house in London,
you, you live in a country of law. You live in an organized country.
No one can just go and burn down a house.
But this war zone is a wild west, no
rules, absolute apocalypse.
So you could just go and do whatever you want.
You can go and
steal whatever you want from those houses. Look at their smiles. They're just...
That's the first time they're burning down a building.
For them, it's some type of a crazy experience,
and they don't
think about the consequences 'cause it's a place without
rules.
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