There were nights when they just entered [a Palestinian village] shooting stun grenades for no reason. It would happen after stones were thrown near the Focus Checkpoint on Route 60. I think they called that village Beitin. We would have to go in there after stones or Molotov Cocktails were thrown, to throw stun grenades into the courtyards, to knock on doors, ask for IDs, separate between men and women and then leave. It was supposed to be very aggressive and intimidating. The explanation for why such things are done was to create deterrence. They went into Ramallah twice to do the exact same thing after Molotov Cocktails were thrown at the division. We also had two nights in Ramallah when we took over a location, due to the Molotov Cocktail. It was a very very big house, there were a few residential units and he just vacated a residential unit for us. So we were there. We received an order to guard there and shoot anyone who throws a Molotov Cocktail at the division. I remember it really bothered me because it contradicted the open fire regulations. Maybe it’s a Molotov Cocktail and that’s not cool, but it’s not killing anyone, because inside the division there’s a large distance between the fence and the houses. I was really scared during my guard duty there that someone would come and I’d have to kill him. I always thought to myself, how would I do it? Shoot the leg or do something that wouldn’t be considered refusal of an order.

Was there an incident in which they shot someone? I don’t know if to say, luckily for us, but they didn’t succeed. Our company was really stupid. What did they think, that if we take over a house and hang an Israeli flag the size of a café and….

Is that what they did? Yes. Really. So why would that person come throw again?