Israeli Soldiers Speak Out: Former Occupation Soldiers Break the Silence
November 10, 2025They called it “security.”
But behind closed doors, it was psychological warfare, midnight raids, smashed doors, children dragged from bed.
Former IDF soldiers now confess: “We made them fear sleep.”
Because in occupied Palestine, even rest was a luxury Israel refused to allow.
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English Script:
Yehuda Shaul: Don’t believe that a soldier who served in the occupied territories has clean hands. It’s not that I think that we are all you know, it’s not that every soldier murders innocent Palestinians far away from that. But no Israeli soldier was served in the occupied territories. His hands were clean after that. Because at the heart of what you do, there is no way of seeing Palestinians as equal human beings to you. I’ll just give you one example, which is nothing extreme, nothing exceptional, something very routine and banal. I served for 14 months in Hebron, right now in Hebron, as we are sitting here and having this discussion. There are two military patrols that their job is to do what we call in the military to make our presence felt. What does it mean? The military logic says this if Palestinians will get the feeling that the IDF is all the time, everywhere, they’ll be afraid to attack. So what do you do to give them this feeling? You make your presence felt? You start your nature patrol 10:00 to 6:00 in the morning, eight hour shift. You walk in the streets of the old city of Hebron, break into a house. Palestinian house, of course, not a house, we have intelligence about. I’m the sergeant. I lead the patrol. I choose a random house. Wake up the family. Men one side, women the other side. Search the place. You can yourself imagine the dynamics. Yeah? Climb to the roof. Jump from one roof to another. Come out through another house, wake and family. And basically, that’s how you pass your eight hour shift. 24 hours a day, seven days a week from September 2000 when the Second Intifada started till today. Now, it didn’t stop for one second. You had the idea is that every Palestinian will feel the military is right here. You don’t know when we’re going to show up, what we’re going to do, when it’s going to end, how it’s going to look like. It’s to do what we call in the military Litzot Rushat Nir Dfutfoot to create the feeling of being persecuted. Now, when this is your mission, again, this is not an action of a rogue soldier officer. This is your mission. There is no way of doing it nice.
