Thread by @ireallyhateyou

🧵1/10
Some excerpts from an article in Ha'aretz from two months ago (yeah, I have a huge backlog) about "shooting & crying"-type religious "leftist" soldiers and their experiences in Gaza.

In the photo:
"A religious reserve soldier carrying a weapon, marked with 'X' symbols representing the number of enemy combatants killed, in Tel Aviv"

The full article:
archive.md/0QTKT#selectio…

2/10
"It felt difficult using other people's things... It was also complicated by people taking things home. They often took prayer beads... It disgusted me that others took other people's property, knowing that they would burn the house... It's Gaza, everyone does whatever they want"

3/10
"Once, a rabbi (who came to lecture) from Kiryat Arba in the West Bank said we need to destroy and shoot everyone, and that the IDF's (rules of engagement) ethics are a "Distorted Western Morality""

4/10
"There are instructions not to leave the house as we found it. So we burned houses."

5/10
"Sometimes we drove over graveyards"

6/10
Soldiers stand where the settlement of Nisanit used to be, dismantled in 2005. The flag says "Nisanit, we're back 2005-2023"

7/10
"The army said that the people we saw were Hamas spotters"

I've said it before: to make it supposedly "kosher" to shoot any person in the partly-evacuated areas, where battles are taking place, the IDF just calls any unarmed person in the "Extermination Zones" a "spotter".

8/10
"And then we occupied a house again. But this time, there were people physically there and we had to kick them out."

9/10
This is the end of the paragraph from the previous tweet: after he said that "people started to break down" because they felt bad taking people's homes, he added that "they were now in the homes of more affluent Gazans (so) there was even more looting"

10/10
"He could bear listening to military rabbis preaching that "we need to kill everyone""