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Yotam Vilk says the image of Israeli soldiers killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip is seared in his mind.

An officer in the armored corps, Vilk said the instructions were to shoot any unauthorized person who entered an Israeli-controlled buffer zone in Gaza. He saw at least 12 people killed, he said, but it is the shooting of the teen that he can’t shake.

“He died as part of a bigger story. As part of the policy of staying there and not seeing Palestinians as people,” Vilk, 28, told The Associated Press.

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How is there literally anything left intact in Gaza? With how long this has been going on, they could have leveled the entire place with a bulldozer by now.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 17 hours ago

Well part of it is that they can't afford to piss off the EU too much, the rest is that unlike in the West Bank the people of Gaza have no problem tossing an IED at said bulldozer.