Breaking the Silence : abbiamo fatto uscire in una notte fredda i palestinesi scalzi e innocenti

Breaking the Silence

  

"Erano le 02:00 e siamo andati in diverse case dei palestinesi. non avevano fatto nulla. Tutte le persone che vi abitavano le abbiamo svegliate e fatte uscire scalze al gelo. Abbiamo controllato le camere e ogni angolo   cosi abbiamo agito in un'altra casa, Ciao, questo è tutto. "

 

"Once, for practice, we came down from our post on foot and started searching houses. It was 2 A.M. and we went into several homes of Palestinians. They had done nothing. Our company commander came down, looked at some house, and said: Search this one for practice. We went in, got all the people who lived there out of bed at 2 A.M. and made them go outside into the freezing cold. They went out barefoot. We pointed our guns at them, went into the house, checked the corners, entered rooms, searched. Our commander was watching and said, you should have secured that corner, gave us pointers, okay, moving on. We entered another house, same thing, got them all out, sent them back in, wrapped it up, went back up to our post. Bye, that’s it."

(A soldier talks about training on Palestinians: http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/database/39575)

Photo: Louiz Green