What is Hebron for you? It’s lots of blood. A kind of nightmare.

Have you thought about it since then? In the first period after [being released from service], I was thinking about it still with military thinking, I mean, I was still in the army, as if I hadn’t been released. I was working as a security guard at the time, so I had a weapon and I was in the north, in Metula, so there was anti-aircraft fire all day. It was hiding from a Katyusha [rocket] here, hiding from a Katyusha there. It was just erasing everything. Then afterwards, at some stage, it started emerging again. I remembered that there had been pictures. I don’t know if that’s what happened or other things, but I think it’s part of it, yes, that suddenly, okay, there is evidence of this. I mean, no one talks about it, no one tells anyone about it. It’s been and gone. I can say over and over that I washed corpses, but no one’s interested. It’s like war history stuff. But there’s a picture of me with a body [of a Palestinian]. And I think that then, at that stage, I started thinking more about what I’d done there and why I’d done it and how.

And what’s your answer today to what you did? There isn’t a clear answer. It was a combination of a lot of factors. A lack of awareness, my lack of maturity, a very heavy responsibility. That you have to be all the time, you can’t let it, you can’t think about it. Today you see a body, and tomorrow you see a body, and the next day you treat a wounded person, and two days later you hear about 10 wounded people. So that’s it, you’re waiting every minute for the call that will lead you to the next incident, so you block everything. And there’s also the fact that it was over there. You cross the border of Jerusalem, you disarm your weapon and that’s it, it’s over. And no one wants to hear about it, no one asks you. It’s ok, it’s the Territories. Everyone knows that something is going on in the Territories, but it’s in the Territories. So you leave it and say okay, it was in the Territories. A different world, different rules, different customs.