Soldier's Account of Combat Experience

We went in.

And we didn't stop fighting for two weeks. For two weeks, that was all we did.

Incidents.

Uh, after two weeks, we went in and looked for a shaft. We knew they were going

to launch an attack on us.

We found the shaft inside a building.

The building was booby-trapped, and they detonated an explosive device on us.

It was a powerful explosive device. It killed four

very good

friends, and five guys were seriously wounded.

Did you lose consciousness?

I didn't lose consciousness. I was conscious the whole time,

but I don't remember the incident.

Yes, well, tremendous shock, I understand.

Mr. Prime Minister, I want to tell you that we're hap— I

am happy. I don't regret going into Gaza at all, even though I'm already at the age of

exemption, and I was proud to fight alongside

the friends who fell.

But also the friends who fell, who are very, very good friends, my best friends,

and my injury,

um,

it's important for us to know it wasn't for nothing, that they're going to crush them, defeat them, not

let them off the hook,

and not go back to October seventh. Not go back in any way.

No, neither from a security standpoint nor in terms of what happened

to us

as a people.

We don't want to go back there. We want to… I'll do everything I

can so we don't go back there.

This…

Good for you.

Good job.