"About 30 minutes into a new documentary featuring testimonies of Israeli soldiers about being deployed to Gaza, a soldier reflects on the enclave after months of sustained Israeli war on it: Terrible heat. Sand. Stench. And dogs wandering around in packs. They eat dead bodies It's horrifying It's a kind of zombie apocalypse. No trees. No bushes. No roads. There's nothing."
"Included are the details of a firing policy that takes little to no account of cause, the wholesale destruction of property and homes, the systematic use of human shields, drone warfare and indiscriminate killing tied to a weaponised system of aid. People don't think about it, one participant, credited as Eli, tells the camera. Because if you do think about it, you'll want to kill yourself."
"Through its two years of genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has killed more than 69,000 people and injured hundreds of thousands more. International agencies say it will be decades before the enclave recovers, if it ever does. Israel's own intelligence suggests that 83 percent of those it has killed in Gaza were civilians. There are no civilians in Gaza,' you hear it all the time, Daniel, a commander with an Israeli tank unit, said."
Israeli soldiers' firsthand accounts describe Gaza as devastated—heat, stench, scavenging dogs consuming corpses, and a landscape stripped of trees, roads and shelter. Soldiers express shame and some admit participation in actions they call genocidal. Testimonies outline a firing policy indifferent to cause, wholesale destruction of homes, systematic use of human shields, drone strikes and indiscriminate killings linked to a weaponized system of aid. Official and international figures record more than 69,000 killed and hundreds of thousands injured, with Israeli intelligence estimating 83 percent of the dead were civilians and recovery requiring decades, if ever.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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