This was on a mission in Nablus, done in the same way as I described in Tul Karm, going through house walls. For the first house, we chose someone for the "neighbor procedure" and this neighbor stayed with us for three days. He went on with us. We simply took him with us from house to house, as we already knew him. As I said, much use was made of hammers to break up houses. I remember once he offered to help us so we let him, and from a certain point on it seemed sort of obvious that he did this work. I'm now telling it in retrospect, talking about what took place back then. Now, I realize it wasn't like that. It seemed as though he wanted to be helpful. I realize he must have been very scared but looked as though he was enthusiastic about it, "Here, let me do this". When we had to climb on something, he'd go bring a chair, he really helped us. And so he went on, and all the guys – I was a young soldier then, not in the older company and as such you are less active, you stay further back -- he guys up front, the older company, already called him by his name and joked around with him, like, asking him whether he was for or against Hamas, or. . . I don't know, stuff like that. So he stayed on with us and only after three days he was just simply told, okay, you can go now, but he couldn't really8 go because he could not walk along the street. So the last family in whose house we had been seemed really nice, and with a show of solidarity they let him sleep over and I don't know whether or when he got home, probably when the operation was over or something. In hindsight, I just think it was really inconceivable to pick up someone like that for three whole days and made him our semi-slave without even giving it a thought.

And he would smash the wall with a 5-kg hammer?Yes, smash away and they'd be looking on. I don't know. . .this was the "neighbor procedure" taken very far indeed.