Suara.com – Ex pilot air Force Israel provide testimony of war crimes that have been committed by the government and its military.
Adapt Anadolu Agency, Tuesday (18/5/2021), Yonatan Shapira revealed that the government he had defended was “war criminals“.
In an interview with Anadolu AgencyThe former Israeli Air Force pilot explained how he felt when he was still in the military.
“I realized during the second Intifada, what the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli military did was a war crime,” said Yonatan Shapira.
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He continued, “We terrorized millions of people Palestine. When I realized that, I decided not only to go, but also to get other pilots to refuse to be part of this crime. “
Shapira was discharged from the military in 2003 after opposing the Tel Aviv administration’s policies of occupation and oppression of Palestinians.
Since then, he has launched a campaign encouraging other members of the military to disobey orders to attack Palestinians.
As a result of a campaign he has conducted with his friends, 27 military pilots have been dismissed from the Israeli Air Force since 2003 for opposing the war.
Zionist militaristic education
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Shapira also shared experiences when she was educated in Israel. He said the Israeli education system had a strong militaristic and Zionist nuance.
“You know almost nothing about Palestine, you don’t know about the Nakba of 1948, you don’t know about the ongoing oppression,” Shapira explained.
“They were sent to throw missiles and bombs at the center of Palestinian cities. At some point, I realized that this was an act of terrorism,” he said.
Shapira also reiterated, along with friends who withdrew from the military, that the act of the Israeli occupation was criminal.
“… this occupation is a crime in progress and a war crime, and we do not wish to continue to take part in these war crimes,” he stressed.
Shapira also said that because he wanted to protect the public, he had to be on the Palestinian side, rather than being an Israeli soldier.
“It is a psychological process and very difficult but once you realize that you are part of a terrorist organization, you understand that you have to say no, you have to take the consequences,” stressed Shapira.
A total of 192 Palestinians, including 58 children and 34 women, have been killed and 1,235 injured since Israel began its airstrikes on Gaza on May 10.
The Israeli military said more than 50 warplanes carried out a 20-minute strike on the Gaza Strip just before dawn on Monday.
They struck 35 “terror targets” and destroyed more than 15 km (9.3 miles) of Hamas’ underground tunnel network, he added.
There have been no reports of either injured or killed in the aftermath of the attack claim.
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