In [Operation] Protective Edge there were drizzle missions on the roof.

By drizzling you mean Roof Knocking (procedure involving firing a small missile at a building to warn its inhabitants that it is about to be bombed)? Carry out Roof Knocking, then see to it that the building is evacuated and then take the building down. Personally, for me, it became very hard, first of all, the whole concept of taking buildings down and harming people, I saw innocent people, it seems completely useless to me. I really didn't understand why we were doing it, I just couldn't grasp why we were going and taking down buildings. I saw a crazy amount of shaking buildings on the screens. First they did Roof Knocking, and then the next stage was to take the building down, and you say [to yourself], some of the buildings were legitimate [targets], where there was ammunition and stuff, some were [the homes] of battalion commanders from Rafah [serving for Hamas], houses in which nobody even lives, whomever lived there was evacuated. And there were [cases] where they took down the building when everything around it was simply in ruins, and hundreds of people probably lived there.

When you say that they took down a lot of buildings, can you estimate how many such buildings you encountered that were taken down? [Within the unit] there were about a hundred and something, according to my estimation. I saw about 10 or 20.

Why is such a house taken down? Say, that battalion commander's [home]. You say there wasn't anybody in the house, so why take down the house? Not just that, everyone is also evacuated with Roof Knocking and fliers and phones.

So why nevertheless? Because according to IDF methodology, it's very intimidating when you knock someone's house down.

Intimidating for whom? Intimidating. It's a deterrent force, now that the family has nowhere to live. You [as a Palestinian] say: everything I had in the house – is gone.