{"id":13429,"date":"2025-11-10T01:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2025\/11\/10\/israeli-soldiers-speak-out-former-occupation-soldiers-break-the-silence\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:45:32","slug":"israeli-soldiers-speak-out-former-occupation-soldiers-break-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2025\/11\/10\/israeli-soldiers-speak-out-former-occupation-soldiers-break-the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Soldiers Speak Out: Former Occupation Soldiers Break the Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQ21QBaE5bC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQ21QBaE5bC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"background:#FFFFFF;line-height:0;padding:0 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:100%\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:50px;margin:0 auto 12px;width:50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color:#3897f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;line-height:18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQ21QBaE5bC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">They called it \u201csecurity.\u201d<br \/>\nBut behind closed doors, it was psychological warfare, midnight raids, smashed doors, children dragged from bed.<\/p>\n<p>Former IDF soldiers now confess: \u201cWe made them fear sleep.\u201d<br \/>\nBecause in occupied Palestine, even rest was a luxury Israel refused to allow.<\/p>\n<p>#IDFConfession #WarCrimes #FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation #ExposeTheTruth #HumanRights<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nYehuda Shaul: Don&#8217;t believe that a soldier who served in the occupied territories has clean hands. It&#8217;s not that I think that we are all you know, it&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t stop for one second. You had the idea is that every Palestinian will feel the military is right here. You don&#8217;t know when we&#8217;re going to show up, what we&#8217;re going to do, when it&#8217;s going to end, how it&#8217;s going to look like. It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon) They called it \u201csecurity.\u201d But behind closed doors, it was psychological warfare, midnight raids, smashed doors, children dragged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,37,33,1],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-13429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-daizy-gedeon","category-israel-hamas-war","category-israel-hamas-war-live-updates","category-middle-east-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}