Kipa reporter Amiel Yarchi, who is currently serving as a reserve soldier in the Gaza Strip, shared what he saw in middle-class Gazan homes he and his fellow soldiers entered while carrying out operations.
“We wake up early in the morning, hastily drink coffee, and head out for an attack. The tank platoon fires a shell or two, we lead the assault, clearing explosives around the house with a bulldozer and breaking down walls for the infantry to clear the house.”
“We enter a middle-class home — a nice living room, an ugly kitchen, a master bedroom, and three children’s rooms. The bathroom is clean, and the children’s rooms are full of dolls, toy guns, and a child’s Hamas hat. Upstairs, we find Nukhba uniforms, vests, and a grenade. There are Dora sheets on the girl’s bed – her father works in murdering Jewish children.”
“There’s a Hamas tunnel in the backyard of the adjacent house and in the bedroom, there’s a permit to work in Israel. Such is life in a neighborhood like this.”
“IDF soldiers on the outskirts of Khan Yunis must look east before every attack – to see the houses of Kibbutz Nir Oz in which the family’s father entered to kidnap and murder.”
“The soldiers exit the house, and we begin to demolish it with the bulldozer. Revenge is not a dirty word.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Revenge is not a dirty word.” Because this ain’t revenge:- This is rescue mission to rescue all innocent hostages & remove all further threats to Israel from the Nazi Hamas, for ever & ever.
Sick people. We should puke all over the house. May the soldiers have strength to continue their holy work.
As an Israeli, I get the feelings he is sharing because it talks to me. But in the world out there, this post will be taken out of “context” and it sounds like a purely vindictive and conquestive sentiment.
May Hashem continue to bless the holy work of the IDF and rescue our hostages very soon.
1. Or the family bought them, either from a Gazan soldier who stole them while murdering or kidnapping the previous owner, or from a merchant using the same suppliers as Israeli merchants use
2. What does destroying the house accomplish other than increasing the amount of aid Gaza will receive. They would have made better use of the energy and time used tearing down the house to look for the hostages.