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On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:42:55 -0400, NefeshBarYochai wrote:

> Israel's army has warned several infantry brigade soldiers that they
> will face trial if they do not return to combat in Gaza, Israel's KAN
> public broadcaster reported on Wednesday.
> 
> The channel reported that at least 20 soldiers have refused to return
> to Gaza, with at least 10 having received official warnings from the
> army on Tuesday.
> 
> Families of some of the soldiers were quoted by Kan as saying that
> their relatives “are forced to conduct ground manoeuvres in Gaza or
> face prison”, with some offering to return to duty in areas other than
> Gaza.
> 
> “There are only a few soldiers left in their company who are capable
> of fighting... This is our time as parents to help them confront a
> system that does not care about them,” the families were quoted as
> saying.
> 
> Israel's army responded by saying that it is working to ensure that
> soldiers are supported in their assigned tasks, with a spokesman
> saying that punitive actions will not be meted out against soldiers.
> 
> More than ten months of war in Gaza has seen Israel destroy vast
> swathes of the enclave, including entire neighbourhoods, roads,
> schools and hospitals. Israeli forces have killed at least 40,602
> Palestinians and wounded 93,855 since 7 October, according to Gaza's
> health ministry.
> 
> In the same period, at least 704 Israeli soldiers have been killed,
> including in Gaza and during the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel.
> 
> During the course of Israel's war on Gaza, several soldiers have
> spoken out against what they witnessed on the ground.
> 
> Earlier this month, Israeli reservist Michael Ofer Ziv told CNN that
> he and other soldiers were given quotas of buildings to remotely
> destroy each day in Gaza.
> 
> “They will tell us, today you have seven, today you have nine… you
> sometimes argue for more, but you will never fire less than you’re
> given,” Ofer Ziv said.
> 
> Another soldier who spoke to CNN, Yuval Green, recounted the scale of
> the destruction meted out by the army.
> 
> “They don’t really care about the lives of Palestinians… we’ve
> inflicted so much damage upon Gaza, something that would be beyond the
> imagination of any reasonable person… I can’t imagine how people would
> go back to living there,” he said.
> 
> Green also recalled the rhetoric of Israeli soldiers on the ground,
> where discussions of mass killings were normalised.
> 
> “Ideas like killing the entire population of Gaza suddenly became
> almost normal… suddenly hearing our commanders say that we’re not
> going to be merciful this time… I felt like we were going to a very
> bad place,” Green said.
> 
> Israel has been accused of committing genocide in Gaza, with an
> ongoing case filed against it at the International Court of Justice.
> 
> Judges at the International Criminal Court are also deliberating
> whether to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister
> Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, after an
> application by the court's chief prosecutor in May.
> 
> https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-soldiers-facing-trial-over-refusal-return-gaza

Move to Canada, Yuval.  Your bosses may no be so welcome, but you are.

Dhu

  -- 
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 C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-) 
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