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Testimony: "I just saw the violence"

[2018] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how no action was taken against a settler child who punched a Palestinian child. "A settler kid suddenly punched Yusuf in the face"

Testimony: "We go back to them every so often, all the time, because nobody writes it down"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how soldiers repeatedly conduct night raids on the same Palestinian homes. "We go back to them every so often, all the time, because nobody writes it down"

Testimony: "An actual Jewish riot starts"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how Israeli soldiers have limited authority over Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. "Why is a Jew who acts violently treated differently from a Palestinian?"

Testimony: "We'll hurt the whole family"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes a policy of collective punishment of extended families and whole villages. "If a terrorist attack is carried out now, we’ll hurt the whole family"

Testimony: "It causes moral damage to us, it causes real damage to them"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which considers how occupation damages everyone who comes in contact with it - Israelis and Palestinians. "It causes moral damage to us, it causes real damage to them"

Testimony: "The first candle of Hanukkah"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how his Unit would celebrate Hanukkah with drums close to where Palestinian child detainees were tied and blindfolded.

Testimony: "Delete, delete, delete"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes cancelling permits for Palestinian family members to visit relatives in Israeli prisons for protesting conditions.

Testimony - "You disrupt their daily life"

[2017] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he spoke out. "There's a story [which] in my eyes is the weirdest, the most messed up and reflects the reality of ruling over civilians for the sake of ruling."

Testimony: "The procedure is five or six houses per night"

[2016] -A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence describing how they would "map" 5 or 6 Palestinian homes in a night. "Wake the kids up, wake up the wife, bring everyone, so we can see everyone, everyone who lives here"

Testimony - "And then I arrived in the territories and saw what's actually being done there."

[2016] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "I went through a process in the army thinking that we couldn't be doing anything wrong. And then I saw what's actually being done there."


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