Do you remember going into houses? A little, yes. No, I didn't participate in that too much, in the mapping, but I went a few times.
Was there a form you fill out while mapping? No. You sketch the house on paper. You sketch, you write where this was, where that was.
Whom do you give it to? The commander collects it, I think his clerk would put them into computer sketches, she would do them on the computer.
What an effort. Yes. Just because, we would go in, the girls, we would go in together. Everyone had to sit in place the minute we came in, they already knew it. Sit down, all the inhabitants, sit in place, don’t move around. You’re forbidden to walk around, sit. As soon as you come in, they have to sit down. We would sit them down in one room and one of them, usually one of them had to go around with us so, as if, there wouldn't be looting. Not that it would have made a difference whether he was there or not, but I don't remember things being taken from them or anything.
Was there degradation? I remember there was degradation only in things like, we go into a house, and say you see pictures of shaheeds on the wall, things like that, which they have. Then it was like: Who is this? How are you connected to him? What is this? To the mothers mostly, the older ones. So then you push on, you see a sign like that, then already their whole house is turned upside down, searching everything, like you are a house of terrorists, you have a picture of a shaheed in the house. And there were women who would come and say proudly: That’s my son. Like that. And you get, this is my son, and you see the picture of the shaheed, and that would just make our soldiers go ballistic. They would turn the whole house upside down. They wouldn't hurt them or anything like that. The mappings were very documented.
On video too? No, usually in writing. There were a few mappings where we went with video cameras, but not in our area. Inside, there’s an area like an industrial area or something like that.