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'I saw the bodies of children': Moral injury and mental strain breaking IDF soldiers (www.haaretz.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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But on that day in Beit Lahia, something happened, says Yoni (a psyeudonym, as are the names of other interviewees). "Terrorists, terrorists," one soldier shouted. "We go into a frenzy, and I get on the Negev [a machinegun] right away and start spraying, firing hundreds of bullets. We then charged forward, and I realized it was a mistake."

There were no terrorists there. "I saw the bodies of two children, maybe 8 or 10 years old, I have no idea," recalls Yoni. "There was blood everywhere, lots of signs of gunfire, I knew it was all on me, that I did this. I wanted to throw up. After a few minutes, the company commander arrived and said coldly, as if he wasn't a human being, 'They entered an extermination zone, it is their fault, this is what war is like.'"

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[–] MrSmoothPP@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I have no patience for IDF sob stories. End the genocide or shut the fuck up.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's incredible that the primary thing this story does is make clear that probably the best (or second best) thing you can do for the world as an IDF soldier is just kill yourself

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Kill almost anyone besides those you are being told to kill, yes.

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