What were the rules of engagement for entering Gaza? Fire at whoever was found in the street at the time?Usually rules of engagement were to open fire only at armed persons.

Only armed men?Yes, but I don't remember that well. These things were not always on our mind, rules of engagement.

Did you experience, for example, instances where you were told that during certain hours at night you should shoot anyone seen out on the street?No, I didn't experience anything of the kind.

Shooting at lookouts on roofs, people standing on the roof holding a phone?Not to my knowledge, but our own missions were always more focused, not ongoing guard shifts where you have such things. You're not supposed to engage with anyone who's unconnected to your own mission. If, for example, you see someone walking and you do want to get to the house quietly, you simply hide, hoping he won't notice you. We were more on recon duty, not routine security.

Did you have any crowd-dispersing ammo on you?What's that?

Rubber bullets.Ah, no.

Did you happen to fire any rubber ammo in the army?Only in maneuvers, I think. Once, to see what it was like. We didn't have any.

Did you ever run into riots?We had nothing to do with such things.

Human shield and neighbor procedure?Yes.

When you conducted arrests, was it always with 'neighbor procedure'?Yes.

Any real cases of human shields?I was never in a situation where you walk with someone, hiding behind his back, not that, but a part of "neighbor procedure" is that he enters every room in the house with you, and he goes in first so that if anything is booby-trapped he'll be the one to blow up, not you. And if you want, you keep telling him to open things, 'open up this closet', 'pick this up, take a look', or sometimes you say that to one of the people who live in that house, too. Say for instance it is not the guy you're looking for, but perhaps the wife or someone. So you tell her to open up everything, but the neighbor will really enter each room before you do.