Breaking The Silence: Israeli Soldiers Testify On Their Atrocities.
'The Perimeter' is a 22 page collection of statements by Israeli soldiers testifying on how they were ordered to create a perimeter of destruction around Gaza. The statements were published by 'Breaking the Silence', a group founded in 2004 by Israeli veterans who aim to expose the reality of the military’s grip over Palestinians.
Soldiers were “given orders to deliberately, methodically, and systematically annihilate whatever was within the designated perimeter, including entire residential neighborhoods, public buildings, educational institutions, mosques, and cemeteries, with very few exceptions”. The ultimate result, was the creation of “a death zone of enormous proportions”, the report said. “Places where people had lived, farmed, and established industry were transformed into a vast wasteland, a strip of land eradicated in its entirety.”
"This distinction [between civilians and terrorist infrastructure], it didn’t matter. Nobody cared. We decided on a line … past which everyone is a suspect.”
While the Israeli government says that civilian deaths were the result of Hamas using innocent people as "human shields", these confessions by IDF soldiers proves the killing would have happened even in the complete absence of Hamas. The IDF created psychological trauma by relentlessly attacking Gazans at will, and leveled buildings knowing no one would ever be allowed to come back.
The genocide in Gaza is one of the worst human tragedies the world has ever seen, and it's still going on thanks to Israel breaking the ceasefire agreement and the rest of world doing nothing to stop the bloodshed. Worse, the United States is complicit in the genocide by providing money and an endless supply of weapons so that Israel can continue its violent rampage.
If you'd like to read 'The Perimeter', click here or download it from my cloud drive.
