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Testimony: "It's a question of mood, how the commander shows up"

[2015] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence describing night raids on Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. "An arrest can be a polite, reasonable thing that happens or it can be a barbaric incident."

Testimony: "You choose the house randomly"

[2015] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence describing night raids on Palestinian homes and the taking of children. "We went into the house, we were 15 soldiers, knocking or not knocking on the door"

Testimony - "The occupation is the most anti-democratic thing happening"

[2015] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "The occupation itself is the most anti-democratic thing happening. There are many people who know what it looks like."

Testimony - "They were Arabs and as far as I was concerned they lost all human form."

[2015] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "I was in such a situation that corrupted me to a degree which after some time Palestinians didn't really have human faces. They lost all human form."

Testimony- "This system needs violence, that's its basis."

[2015] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "This system needs violence, that's its basis. The system of repressing the population there. Otherwise it wouldn't work."

Testimony: "It [the mapping] was totally arbitrary; I could choose whatever house I wanted"

[2014] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence describing the process of how a Palestinian home was selected to be "mapped". "I could choose whatever house I wanted, like checking the wind, when you lick your finger"

Testimony: "Sometimes you knock on the door and sometimes you break down the door"

[2014] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence describing how the army gains access to Palestinian homes at night. The decision whether or not to knock or break in may come down to whether the soldiers require training.

Testimony - "Every night my company ruined the nights of a few such families"

[2014] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "Every night my company ruined the nights of a few families. How can it not be an occupation when the army enters your home once a month?"

Testimony - "I would also throw stones if they came to take my brother away"

[2014] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "I would also come out and throw stones if they were to come take my brother away in the middle of the night, no matter what he did."

Testimony - 'Provocation and reaction'

[2014] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes the tactic of 'provocation and reaction'. 'Provocation and reaction' is the act of entering a village, making a lot of noise, waiting for the stones to be thrown at you."


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