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Another:
"We'd often provoke riots (in Hebron). We'd be on patrol, walking in the village, bored, so we'd trash shops, find a detonator, beat someone to a pulp, you know how it is. Search, mess it all up. Say we'd want a riot? We'd go up to the windows of a mosque, smash the panes, throw in a stun grenade, make a big boom, then we'd get a riot."
"Every time we'd catch Arab kids. You catch him, push the gun against his body. He can't make a move - he's totally petrified. He only goes: 'No, no, army.' You can tell he's petrified. He sees you're mad, that you couldn't care less about him and you're hitting him really hard the whole time."
"And all those stones flying around. You grab him like this, you see? We were mean, really. Only later did I begin to think about these things, that we'd lost all sense of mercy."
Over 700 other testimonies read like these. If made public, thousands of others could replicate them. These are serious, unprovoked crimes. Prosecutions rarely happen. Punishments are no more than wrist slaps. Commanders have total absolution.
Israeli rule of law says Palestinians don't matter. They're kicked around like rag dolls. Stray dogs wouldn't be treated as abusively. Israeli soldiers have virtual carte blanche to do what they please.
Impunity protects them. Commanders order them to be tougher. So do extremist rabbis. BTS soldiers bear witness to Israel's dark side. It's the only side Palestinians endure daily.
Read the entire BTS report and know why.
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