What you would call the political right in israel, i was infantry combat soldier and a commander, i finished my service as a company of sergeant, my sisters are settlers, one of my brothers is settler today, even though i grew up in the political right, i found myself in a place where i couldnt justify any more 90 of actions i took part in, but after serving Israeli Military forces as a combat soldier, decided to do something that changed his life forever. He was the first israeli soldier to tell the truth about the occupation of palestine. Really hope that ill see the end of the occupation. The first real place was deployed was hebron. The second i arrived in hebron, i started having doubts. December 2016, the United NationsSecurity Council approves resolution 2334. It reaffirms that israeli settlements in Palestinian Land are illegal and violation of the international law. A few weeks later with donald trump already in the white house, israel announces the expansion of the west Bank Settlements between the United States and the state of israel. It means more settlers to add to the 600,000 that are now living in pale. And the occupied territories in general, you basically have two communities, palestinians and settlers, these two communities do not have the same rights. Palestinians are under military law, enforced by the army, and settlers are under israeli civilian law, enforced by the israeli police. So i arrived to. And my mission is to protect the settlers. They come from all over the world, invited by jewish organizations and travel agencies working for the settlers cause. I come from los angeles, 15 hours yesterday to come show support for. Heavily guarded by Israeli Soldiers, every tour of hate contributes to putting more pressure on palestinians. On the days of the tours, palestinians are with a gun at their. Heads seaged inside their houses while settlers explain to the tourists how they conquered the land. The first advice to the tourists is, keep away from the palestinians, or you will be killed. Settlers create hate tourism. The goal, bring more settlers to set down in Palestinian Land. Im 30 years old and i served in a special unit called duv devan specialized in Counter Terror inside the west bank specifically. Now whats special about my unit is that it does um undercover operation. For at least half an hour, four men had been throwing stones at Israeli Soldiers. But in matter of seconds. They pulled out their guns, opening fire at the group of protesters. We have soldiers, fighters that know how to assimilate within the palestinian society. They speak arab, they dress as arab. The four men are, in fact, Israeli Soldiers disguised as palestinian. They are known as mustabiin, an arabic term that literally means arab pretenders, infiltraters among. To carry out military missions, with that ability, we are um able to specific missions from kidnapping or stopping um all kind of terrorist or wanted to complicated and even classified operations. They also carry out selective executions. It was 12th of november 2015, about two dozen men wearing bulky jackets barged into a palestinian hospital, pushing what appeared to be a pregnant woman in a wheelchair, but they were not heading to the delivery ward. The people caught on the hospital were, in fact undercover israeli officers. About 10 minutes later, the israelis were on their way out, leaving behind a palestinian man dead and taking his cousin with them. Um, and i remember really clearly, they divide us to two groups and were standing one in front of another, and then they told us, you need to imagine that you going into the field there a palestinian a terrorist, hes going to shoot your mom, rape your sister, and hes going to kill your little. Little brother and right before you go in, this is how you need to to be in your mind, ill just give you one example, what we call in the idf making our presence felt, we start night patrol 10 00 to 6 00 in the morning, eight hour shift, we walk in the streets, bump into a house, its a random house, the sergeant, the officer or leads the patrol chooses these houses, yeah, wake up the family, now its the middle of the night, around 34 ocl in the morning, we have our weapon, our face is covered with colors, so well be intimidating, lock them in one room, separate men from women, search the place, you can yourself imagine the dynamics, what happens when a military unit bumps into your house, two oclock at night, we knock on the door, the head of the family opens the door, the first time we realized this is this is family were going into knock on some door. Make some noise, throw some shock grenades, run to the other corner of the another random house, wake up the next family, open all the doors, open all the lights, open all the windows, wake up all your family and bring them here to the living room, we need to question you, search the place, you know, climb on the roof, jump from one roof to another, go down through the balcony, wake up the next house, be exciting on one point cuz this is the first time you were out there, on the other hand, this is this is not exactly the war zone that i was looking for, or i was really anticipating, thats basically how you pass your ad, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in september 2000 when the second 84 started till today and then stop for one second. I remember one of the Main Operations that i have done it was this big operation, we were all very proud of it, we decide we need to do a thing called a hot operation, get into a house through blowing up the door with explosives and the guy with explosives put explosives on the door and put a little bit more and we go and we hide on the corner and three, two, one and huge boom went off and i really remember it and also sent it later on the camera and right after the boom we quickly go inside looks like the house was picking up in the air and throwing down, all the windows were broken, the doors were torn and we quickly find a guy, we take him outside, we put against the wall and theres something really weird, the guy doesnt look like the guy that were looking for and the house doesnt exactly look like the house that was. Supposed to break in, then we notice we blew up the wrong house, and we go out to the next corner, find the right house and continue the mission, almost a weekly basis, i would sit down with my soldiers and talk about values and morality, i remember one thursday, you know, you just finished sitting down talking about values. And then you start a patrol and you walk in the streets of the old city and suddenly we see a suspicious bag in the side of the road, could be bomb, could be garbage, both happened, what do we do . We grabbed the first random palestinian and send them to pick it up, if its a bomb will explode, if not we continue. Two hours ago we spoke about the equality of human life and our human being, and now we just prove that the life of random palace in the street is worth less than what . One bullet of an m16 that we can. Shoot it and check whether its a bomb or not, 20 minutes waiting for a prob you know engineer, what is obvious for me is that protecting israel from terrorism. Is very small part of what we do, but we many do in the occupied territories, its about making sure palistinans will never be free. We are going back to jerusalem alkuds to meet a socalled ngo. They call themselves, my truth, and the organization was born in the social media. Controversy is being stirred up in israel involving one of the countrys most polarizing activist groups. They stand. For the values of zionism and their goal tell the truth about the occupation of palestine, but their truth denies any violation of human rights, killings, or even the occupation. Their members are veterans of the Israeli Military forces and were created to fight breaking the silence. My name is lior shah. I have served in the idf. Im also part of an Organization Called my truth. My name is. Ben, i served in the idf, my truth was open up in direct response to breaking the silence. My name is athan meir, im the International Relations coordinator for emptsu. I was born and raised in new jersey in the United States and i immigrated to israel in 2008. Imtertsu, its a Nongovernmental Organization and its goals are simple, to promote and advance science values in israel. Do you think breaking the silence are traiters . Breaking the silence gets millions. And millions of shekels, foreign governmental entities in europe, denmark, holand, spain, even germany, france, i dont know what the ultimate goal is in breaking the silence and all these other organizations that receive funding from foreign european governments in order to the fame and deal state of israel. I look at their actions and their actions are 100 anti israel. How do you feel when the minister of defense say that you are traders . You can just say um, moshe yalon, the former israeli minister of military affairs, says openly that breaking the silence is an organization of traitors and that they were banned from all military events. Lieutenant general moshe yalon, defense minister of israel, after all the controversy and war crimes committed under his orders during the last operation in gaza, he says, i can still look at myself in the mirror. I can look. About the cases open in several civil courts across the world, he has an explanation and european countries, but when it comes to the international bodies, like the human rights council, we find ourselves in a war after the war, the world is lying, when the minister of defense calls you a traiter and a spy. People on the street respond to this incidentment and then our office gets physically attacked once, our activists get physically attacked twice on campuses and rightwing bullies published phone number of in the grandparents of our executive director and theyve been getting calls in the middle of the night, your granddaughter was in a car accident, shes dead, shes in the hospital on that, yeah, its becoming very filthy, what we see in the last few years is more and more attempts by the government to try to silence anyone whose speaks out about the occupation, this is the website of breaking the silence. Here you can find hundreds of testimonies of soldiers that served the occupation in gaza and the west bank. They tell about crimes committed against the palestinians, abuse, assassinations, bribery, confirmation of killings, deaths. Everything documented with place, date and names. Also lot of times they find that, with breaking the silence, lot of their stories are not true, and you have the commanders of these soldiers coming and saying, hey, i was there, thats not how it played out, what are you talking about . Breaking the silence, um, felt bad for me to see, how they act. I was there, i served in the army, i was in very difficult situations in the golani brigade, and these things breaking science says, did not happen, the either did not happen or exaggerate, and they certainly do not reflect. או שאנחנו עברינים או שאתה שקרן, אני הייתי המפקד של הפלוגה. Becoming friends with people, embraced by people, being brought into the homes of people while everything is recorded from head and camera. Theyve sent a guy to give us state secrets about classified operations behind enemy lines in syria so they can initiate a security investigation against. Now our researcher sits down with this guy and during the interview he insists four five times to talk about syria and our researcher tells them were not interested in syria. Lets move on, go back to the west bank in gaza. And right away we sent this interview to the Israeli Military. Against the occupation, breaking the silence, you have to realize this is the credible minority of it, and in those cases that they are found to do it, there are laws and they say because soldiers are afraid to join breaking the silence, um, anyone thats been to israel, and i encourage all the viewers to do so, will realize that israels are the last people, i would say have a problem about speaking their mind, you think there are many soldiers desiring to speak out . Inside the idf, they are afraid, yeah, what we know is that the Israeli Government is trying to do many different things, try to make sure that soldiers will not speak, for example, the now taking us to court to force us to expose the identity of soldiers served in gaza in 2014 and testified to us, so they can throw it into prison. בנושא עיני לחטירת הגולני, בציפית הנפגע בחמס, אני בטוח שחטירת הגולני תדעה לעמוד במשימה, יצאו להתקפה, התקפה סוף, תוך הטנק, פתאום עלינו לעמדה וראינו את הצעיר הזה והתחילה מין תחרות, אתה תותחן, בוא נראה את הגבר, בוא נראה אם אתה מצליח לפגוע ברכב נושא, אז מצאתי רכב מונית, ניסיתי לראות פגז, לא הצלחתי, שתי רכבים, עוד פגז או שתיים, רוכב אופניים שסתם מדבש לו בכיף ואז פתאום הוא התחיל לדובש במהירות פסיכיתים עליו אז כל הצות בטנק התחיל להקרע מצחוק שוואלה וחשבתם על זה מה קורה אם יש שם אנשים כלומר זה עלה בדיון ביניכם בתוך הטנק שזה אזרחים כל דבר שזז וגם מה שלא זז בכמות פסיכית every day during that operation between 1 to 3 00 in the afternoon, the idf had something called a humanitarian ceasefire to allow the local population in gaza to go out, get the food they need, visit, their relatives, breathe some fresh air. When you go to an organization like hamas, unfortunately. That was the time when they would shoot the most rockets. We decided not to do anything because we decided it was the ceasefire and we just allowed them to keep firing rockets, putting you know palestinians top of the israelis. Gaza is the most heavily populated enclave on the globe, 1. 8 million people, and more than 1 million a refugees that before 1948 lived in what is now the occupation. This strip of land is, in fact a huge refugee camp, but also an open air prison sieged by israel by land, sea, and air. The last Israeli Aggression on gaza lasted 50 days of intensive bombings, entire neighborhoods were reduced to rubble, operation protective edge, as it was called by israel, continued for seven weeks, leaving behind around 3,0 deaths and around half million garsans displaced. הרב של הגדוד היה מאוד נוכח זה בערך אחרי כל שיחת ה the massive amount of destruction of infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, you have about 18,000 apartments destroyed, its not a coincidence, its a direct result of two new doctrines that the idf has adopted, that shaped the way this operation was conducted led to this destruction that we left behind. צריך להבין שהכמוות של הפגזים והכדורים שירינו הם הצלומות פנק שלי למשל ירינו 25 פגזים לאורך כל המבצע, אבל כשיצאתי החוצה וסיפרתי את זה לחברים שלי הפלוגה, הם צחקו עליי, אנשים יראו את הכמות הזאתי ביום, אנשים,ים, your orders are to shoot to the knees and the bottom and youre afraid youre going to hit the stomach, you have no doubt you dont pull the trigger, because once you pull the trigger, there is no way back. In gaza, the same sentence was used, exactly the opposite, there is doubt, there is no doubt, if you have doubt, if youre not sure, hold the trigger because we prefer the mistakes to be at the expense of the other side. במבצע אמרו לנו כל בן אדם שאתם רואים הוא לא אמור להיות שם כי צעל להוריד כחוזים לאכלוסיה להתפנות מהאזור ואם הוא לא אמור להיות שם אז אוטומטית הוא לאחף מבשע ורדחורים ביש. you know, we we we dont have any red lines anymore for our security, dont we stop somewhere and say, am i going to do this in the name of the security, really . You might say its security, but i know that this is not my value, the problem is the occupation, any army in the world that will get the order to go and occupy and other people forever, well behave this way, and the only way you can do. This is if you dont see palestinians as equal human beings to you, because to equal human being to you, you just dont do this, that is immoral, and its because the mission is immoral, our behavior was immoral, the problem is the Political Mission the army has sent to carry out, hence the solution is ending the occupation, is changing the Political Mission the army is sent to carry out, the Israeli Occupation demonstrates its hatred on houses of the lord. This mask was reduced to rubble by f16 warget. Their weight led to the destruction of the houses around the mask causing the fall of marchers and injuries of. Amongst neighbors of the mask. The palestinians did not stand on the romans the moskly, but they created temporary most that dont protect them from neither the cold of winter nor the heat of the summer. The headlines at press tv, more than 2700 palestinians have been killed in israels onslot on the besege gaza strip with some 1,000 others still unaccounted for. Iran strongly deplores human rights claim and silence on israels atrocities in gaza. As hypocritical and a sixyearold palestinian american boy is brutally murdered in the us city of chicago after being stabbed 26 times by his landlord and an apparent hate crime