I Served in the IDF in the 2014 War in Gaza. The Friends I Lost There Should Have Been the Last Ones.

"We are the soldiers who served the Israeli concept of “managing the conflict” and the endless rounds-of-fighting policy."

Former Israeli sniper says war on Gaza is strengthening Hamas

"Indiscriminate bombing is not a way forward, definitely not a way to shift public opinion within the Strip. But also not a way to move forward to a day after, where we don’t conduct our relationship with Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza through the scope of our gun,"

An Israeli man remembers his Gazan friend

"Here, they try to convince you that everyone in Gaza are just monsters that want to kill you because you're Jewish. And here, I know someone who lives there. He wasn't looking for trouble. He wasn't hurting anyone. And when he died, something kind of broke inside because it made it more difficult to hold on to this belief that we can make things better."

Learning from Israel’s past Gaza Strip invasions

Israeli military veteran sounds the alarm about Israel's occupation of Palestinians

But the Hamas attack last month that took the lives of so many civilians in Israel, has not changed Givati's position on his countries occupation of Palestinian territories. "We have been saying it failed, because we know how it works as soldiers who are sent to maintain it, to expand it, to entrench it. It failed before Oct 7, but now more than ever we know it failed. And that means we have to change course."

'Guns alone are not going to defeat Hamas,' says fmr. IDF soldier

"When I started seeing the images of the massacres my heart went out, and when I saw the images of the retaliation, of the bombing, I felt a deep pain, because I felt like I was seeing what I had experienced in 2014 happening all over again."

Why this former IDF soldier believes Israel is making "a catastrophic mistake" in Gaza

"And frankly it's my worst fears, because many people, colleagues, in the Israeli peace camp, in the Israeli anti-occupation camp, have been warning for so many years, saying that there is no military solution. We can't just manage the conflict and maintain a very brutal military regime of control over Palestinians."

'This is a horrific mistake' Former IDF soldier on why Gaza incursion may not bring peace

"I came out and I looked, and I started thinking about what we accomplished. And I saw that actually what happened was, that Hamas just got stronger. And not only did it get stronger, it got stronger with the help of my own government."

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