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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "The terrible banality of the occupation" [2008] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "It's very important to shed light on the terrible banality of the occupation and what it does to us as a society, as human beings." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "A kind of fun" [2008] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how children trying to cross from Gaza into Israel were sometimes left outside tied and blindfolded for two days. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'A kind of routine' [2008] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how the army would try to provoke children in Hebron so that they could be arrested. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'Gotta keep my spirits up' [2008] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how his friend slapped a 14-year old Palestinian boy in the face because he was humming but he he could not report the abuse. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Human advantage" [2008] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes a debate in his platoon where most soldiers thought Palestinians should be beaten 'so they'll know what's what'. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "It's not right" [2008] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes a video clip on a mobile phone taken by another soldier showing shackled children being kicked. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "One checkpoint, three lanes" [2008] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes dividing a checkpoint into lanes based on race or national identity. Israeli settlers would complain if they had to wait. |
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