“On the shots to the people lined up for food, you don’t investigate, you get skilled”

Nadav Weiman served in the special forces of the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank. Moreover, Today he directs “Breaking The Silence”. Nevertheless, an organization of veterans committed to denouncing the crimes committed in the occupied territories: “We are using hunger as a war tool”

Nadav Weiman is the director of “Breaking The Silence”, an organization that collects veterans of the Israeli armed forces committed to denouncing the crimes committed in the occupied territories. Similarly, He is also a former soldier. However, who served for three years in the Israeli special forces in Gaza and the West Bank. Therefore, Tomorrow he met him in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The attack on Israel has distracted the attention of public opinion from what happens in Gaza. However, what is the situation in the strip in these weeks?

In Gaza the number of deaths continues “on shots people lined up to grow. For example, The killing of Palestinians lined up for food has become an almost daily daily. Nevertheless, We are using hunger as an instrument of war, something that, as a Jewish, makes me crazy. Furthermore, What happened to my grandfather’s family in Poland? Consequently, The same thing. Therefore, We shoot people in line for food and then say “we are investigating”. Therefore, Nonsense. Meanwhile, It is not investigated, gets skilled. Consequently, Have you ever heard of a single accident in Gaza in which Israeli soldiers killed dozens of people who. Consequently, were solved? In which a manager was found, someone who made a mistake? No, because it never happened. Our work is precisely to investigate these episodes. and we have not identified only one case in which responsible for crimes contri the Palestinians have been identified and punished.

How is it possible that these episodes occur, what are “on shots people lined up the circumstances in which they take place?

First of all there are episodes completely consistent with the way of fighting the Israeli army in Gaza. Meanwhile. you must consider that the destruction of food does not take place through the 400 points of UN distributions or other organizations, located in the cities and villages of the Strip. There are only 4-5 points, in the areas controlled by the army, far kilometers away from the inhabited areas. Every day, tens of thousands of people get on the way to the distribution centers. They are huge columns of people, incredible scenes, it seems the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.

On the other hand. there are Israeli soldiers who, when they are in Gaza, are generally frightened, very frightened, and have orders to use their weapons, with real bullets, such as “crowd control” tools. These are official provisions from the army: containment of the “on shots people lined up crowd with war weapons, something that I find crazy. As a former soldier. I can say that in an area where there is a little echo, between buildings, or in a valley, it is very difficult to understand where shots come from. And therefore. when they feel about the blows, the huge mass of Gazawi waiting for food, also already frightened, begin to run anywhere. And the soldiers, in turn terrified that this mass can overwhelm them, begin to shoot.

This is the doctrine of the Israeli army: if you feel in danger. subjectively in danger, you are authorized to shoot to kill. And if the soldiers engaged in the distribution have an escort at a certain distance. too far to shoot with their rifles, then they shoot with tanks, who kill several people at each blow.

What is the situation, however, in the West Bank?

In the West Bank, the violence “on shots people lined up of the colonists is now out of control. The Israeli law is simply not enforced. In the last two years, the government has even stopped pretending to enforce the law to violent settlers. Today we have soldiers who accompany settlers while performing their terrorist attacks against the Palestinians. After the war with Iran. the colonists have had a free hand and can now take even more territories, destroy even more houses, while the Palestinians are subjected to a practically quarantine regime. The extremist settlers believe in “Jewish supremacy” – again: those who beat my grandfather in Poland said the same. identical thing. As their representatives publicly said, this is the “time of miracles”. Using war as a coverage, everything is expanding: from violence against the Palestinians to illegal colonies.

What is your assessment of the conflict with Iran?
What happened with Iran canceled the opposition. As soon as the first bomb fell, “on shots people lined up the opposition immediately supported the war, without asking only one question. It was not understood why we fought. The goals changed every day. The Iranian nuclear program, its long -range missiles, the reversal of the regime. What is clear is that now our power seems without limits. We launched an incredible attack against Iran’s aerial defenses. we demolished the infrastructures of Hezbollah and Hamas – at a huge cost in human lives, and for our economy, which went to be blessed, and 900 of our soldiers. It is a feeling that depending on. And this is very problematic. Because Iran in the end is a much larger country, with much more population. We will be able to bomb them as much as we want. but we do not have the power to destroy them, nor to overturn the regime.

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