{"id":303241,"date":"2025-09-22T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303241"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:26:03","slug":"israeli-soldiers-facing-ptsd-from-their-time-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/israeli-soldiers-facing-ptsd-from-their-time-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Soldiers Facing PTSD from Their Time in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 Sep 2025 – Haaretz published a Hebrew-only article today about Israeli soldiers and PTSD with numerous admissions to killing children.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c\u2026 \u2018We enter the area\u2026and start spraying, firing hundreds of bullets. Then we charged forward, and then I realized that it was a mistake.\u2019 There was no terrorist there. \u2018I saw two bodies of children, maybe eight years old, maybe ten\u2019\u2026 the company commander arrived and said coldly, as if he wasn\u2019t human, \u2018They entered the extermination area, it\u2019s their fault, that\u2019s how it is in war.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Every day we have the same mission, to secure the humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip\u2019\u2026 the residents try to move forward to take a good place in line, but there is a line ahead of them that they do not notice. \u2018A line that if they cross, I can shoot them,\u2019 explains Benny. \u2018It\u2019s like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and l\u2019m there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, \u2018Take it down, take it down. I shoot 50-60 bullets every day, I stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The officers don\u2019t care if children die, nor do they care what it does to my soul. As far as they\u2019re concerned, I\u2019m just another tool.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them even said that during one of the operations in the Gaza Strip, the platoon\u2019s soldiers accidentally killed a woman and her two children, who had entered an arbitrary extermination zone set by the army. \u2018We didn\u2019t know, we saw three figures and we shot according to orders,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n

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