![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony: "The kids were scared of the dogs" [2013] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes searching a house for weapons using dogs and a sledgehammer. "When we were inexperienced soldiers, we performed arrests without facemasks on" |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Israel made its presence felt" [2013] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how the army "made its presence felt" in a small Bedouin community. "We arrived at some Bedouin tent that was really out in the middle of nowhere." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Did I behave properly during that incident?" [2012] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to break his silence and speak out. "The first vehicle we stopped had two Palestinians transporting goods, and their Hebrew was good." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'A kind of game' [2011] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how the army suppresses Friday demonstrations in villages like An Nabi Saleh. "On Friday morning we went out to the village." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "A moral occupation isn't possible" [2010] - An Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence explaining why he chose to speak out. "A moral occupation isn't possible. I think another necessary thing is for people to understand the effects it has on the society in which we live." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'Desperate shaking' [2010] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how his unit took it in turns to shake a boy they had detained in order to make him stop crying. "Once there was a stone-throwing incident at Gross Square." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'Everything's fine' [2010] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how his commanding officer beat a child for refusing to pass through an x-ray machine. "People were saying all the time that they beat Arabs for fun." |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'That's what they understand' [2010] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how Palestinian children need to be 'slapped around a bit' because that's what they understand. |
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