{"id":261563,"date":"2024-05-06T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261563"},"modified":"2024-05-02T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T08:57:47","slug":"israeli-soldier-speaks-out-why-i-turned-against-the-war-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/israeli-soldier-speaks-out-why-i-turned-against-the-war-on-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Soldier Speaks Out: Why I Turned against the War on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>23 Apr 2024 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fleeing Palestinians waving white flags gunned down, buildings flattened with whole families inside&#8211;the Israeli army has been widely condemned for its misconduct in Gaza. It\u2019s rare to hear from soldiers who\u2019ve served on the ground, but an Israeli soldier says that what he witnessed turned him against the genocide.<\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;s voiced by an actor to protect his identity. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And a warning: you may find some images upsetting<\/span><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israeli soldier speaks out on war in Gaza\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aa-VDAjL8vM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Apr 2024 &#8211; It\u2019s rare to hear from soldiers who\u2019ve served on the ground, but an Israeli soldier says that what he witnessed turned him against the genocide. He&#8217;s voiced by an actor to protect his identity. And a warning: you may find some images upsetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[532,1854,2898,1199,2242,87,865,1643,1029,1966,1644,88,2416,715,427,124,70,965,1025],"class_list":["post-261563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ecocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-hamas","tag-hunger","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261564,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261563\/revisions\/261564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}