200 Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse To Fight In Gaza Send Letter To Netanyahu Demanding An End To The War – Libertarian Institute

 200 Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse To Fight In Gaza Send Letter To Netanyahu Demanding An End To The War

As the Israeli onslaught in Gaza drags into its 15th month, a growing number of IDF soldiers are refusing to return to the battlefield. Some say they witnessed war crimes in Gaza and no longer want to be a part of the conflict that several human rights organizations have labeled a genocide. 200 Israeli soldiers signed a letter calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war.

One of the soldiers, Yuval Green, a 27-year-old medic, told the AP he walked off his post last January. He said he decided he could no longer be a part of the war in Gaza after witnessing his fellow soldiers loot and destroy Palestinians’ homes.

A second soldier, Yotam Vilk, explained that he decided he would not return to Gaza after he witnessed the murder of a Palestinian teenager in what he described as a “buffer zone.”

Israel has set up multiple “kill zones” in Gaza. As Haaretz explained in March, anyone killed in a designated kill zone is labeled a “terrorist” even if they “never held a gun in their lives,” and they are “often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF.”

Green and Vilk are some of the 200 Israeli soldiers – members of the group Soldiers for the Hostages – who signed a letter addressed to Netanyahu demanding an end to the war in Gaza. The IDF told the AP it condemned the soldiers’ refusal to serve.

At the group’s conference, the AP said they spoke with seven Israeli soldiers who reported witnessing war crimes including indiscriminately killing and destroying homes. Some reported they were ordered to set fire to the houses.

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