GIL HILLEL 2001-03, Sachlav (military police), Hebron On my first or second day in Hebron, my commanders asked me to go on a doll, a foot patrol that we conduct in the casbah and Jewish settlement. I agreed, it seemed cool. It was my first time in the field, come on, lets do it. We went on patrol, into the casbah, and I think that was the first time I sensed the existential fear of living under constant threat. We started the doll and I started feeling bad. The first time in the field is not simple. One of my commanders, the veteran among them, took an old Palestinian man, just took him aside to some alley and started beating him up. And I … it wasfine by all the others … I sort of looked at them and said: What is he doing? Why is he doing that? What happened? Did he do anything? Is he a threat? A terrorist? Did we find something? So they said: No, its OK. I then approached my commander, the [one] who trained me, and asked: What are you doing? He said: Gil, stop it. And that really scared me. I was scared of their reactions, of the situation we were in. I felt bad with what went on there, but I kept quiet. I mean, what can I do? My commander told me to shut up. We left there and went back to the company and I went to my commander and said: What are you doing? Why did you do that? So he said: Thats the way it is. Its either him or me and its me and … They took him aside and just beat him up. They beat him up, they punched him. And slapped him, all for no reason. I mean, he just happened to walk by there, by mistake... theguardian/world/2014/jun/08/israel-soldiers-speak-out-brutality-palestine-occupation?CMP=fb_gu
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:15:34 +0000
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