There was some Engineers battalion whose heavy equipment company was stationed with us at the central brigade HQ, so I was in touch with them. I think their commander or soldiers. . .I think it was the commander. . .placed a sign. . .or perhaps their company commander . . . Anyway, one of the commanders in this company hung up a sign: "Heavy-duty engineering vehicles company 603 – smash, destroy, demolish". Something of that nature. I can't tell you about specific events where soldiers took out their frustration on some miserable house or some farmer who went astray, but there was this general atmosphere. I wasn't involved enough in every warfare to point to specific incidents.

Did you see soldiers getting their pictures taken with dead bodies?I didn't see soldiers getting photographed with bodies, but, like I told you earlier, I did see soldiers take fatigues off the body of a dead militant and take them along to the office. (…)

Were there other symptoms? Looting? Soldiers bragging about how they smashed, how they demolished?I remember all kinds of stories soldiers told about things they took.

Prayer beads?Yes, that is something that seems to happen all over the Territories. I don't think it's just in Gaza. I remember, in fact, about this business of home demolitions, which is something those heavy engineering vehicle companies did all the time, demolishing houses, I always wondered what they were thinking, and how something inside them must break and go loony if they simply keep coming and destroying people's homes. So to tell you, I don't know, that they demolished a little more than they actually had to; I'm sure they did. I didn't see it myself although every time I was on the Kisufim road the villages and outskirts of Khan Yunes seemed to gradually recede from the road, but clearly it was intentional. So I don't know if things happened beyond the orders that were handed down, or something like that.