The Israeli journalist, Nir Hassoun, who published a report last week containing the testimonies of soldiers and exhausted officers in the Gaza Strip, complained that he was subjected to death threats from extremist right -wing circles accusing him of serving the Hamas movement.
However, Hassoun declared that he will continue to reveal the facts that political and military leaders hide, indicating that the destruction of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, will be parallel to the destruction of the American nuclear bomb Bahirushima at the end of World War II.
While his newspaper, “Haaretz”, called to stop ignoring what the Israeli army is being implemented against the Palestinians and working to change this terrible reality.
Hassoun said, at the “Podcast” symposium, to the Haaretz newspaper, that the government is pushing the army to manage a war without a real or real political goal, and it is forced to war just because of the war.
He added that the army, for its part, runs this war in terrible brutal methods that are not imagined and not appropriate for any liberal values, and do not adhere to the rules of war and international covenants.
And the fact that the Israeli media hides it from the attention of the public, so no one in Israel can be acquitted of responsibility for it, especially since the International Court of Justice in The Hague had issued a decision in which he asked Israel to stop its practices in Rafah during February 2024, and returned and issued a more severe decision in May. The two decisions sparked many discussions in Israel.
Hassoun said that what happened in Rafah is only a model. Beit Hanoun, mountains, and the majority of towns in the northern region of the Gaza Strip were destroyed in the same way. According to international reports, 80 percent of homes and buildings in the Gaza Strip were destroyed, completely or in a way that does not make it suitable for housing.
There is no family without deaths and injuries. Infrastructure, all schools, hospitals and universities were destroyed, most mosques and churches were injured, and more than 60,000 were killed, and it is believed that the number can reach 100 thousand when the war subsides, and the investigation begins with its results.
He stressed that his conscience as a human being, and his duty as a journalist, and his religious and cultural morals, does not allow him to know these facts and silence.
He was asked what he says to the citizen who knows nothing about what is going on in Gaza, and therefore attacks him. He replied: “I tell him, do not believe me. Do not believe what (Haaretz) is publishing, nor what the Western or Arab media say. But go and examine yourself. Open (Google Map) – (Google Maps) – and compare what happened in Gaza and what happened in Japan in World War II.
I tell you that the destruction that occurred in the city of Rafah alone exceeds the destruction caused by the American nuclear bomb that was thrown at Hiroshima. Check it yourself. ”
Hassoun, who is known for his professional reports on the situation of the Palestinians in the occupied areas and the abuse and abuse they were exposed to for many years, published a report last Friday in which I heard the voices and testimonies of soldiers and officers in the Israeli Reserve Army serving in the Gaza Strip during the war. Their accounts showed how they are receiving orders that allow killing for Palestinian innocent people.
One of them narrated that he and his soldiers were complaining about these orders by giving live bullets at the citizens who flowed to the relief centers funded by America in northern Gaza, and they asked: “If the purpose is to disperse them until we prevent chaos or prevent the attack on us. So why do you not give us tear gas canisters first. They replied: There is no need for that. ”
The soldiers narrated how they became physically and psychologically exhausted from this war. They revealed many signs that indicate the disregard for people’s lives and the lack of differentiation between the men of “Hamas”, innocent children, women and the elderly.
This report was huge, and was quoted in international media. And in Israel, the report destroyed many. As usual, in the right they did not believe, while those on the left felt shy, but those in the political community ignored the one in it.
But activists on the extreme right chose, in return, inciting it and his newspaper. The mayor of Arad announced that this newspaper was banned from entering his city (then he retracted when he found that his behavior was illegal).
On Friday, the Haaretz newspaper published an editorial entitled “Enough for an indispensable killing”, in which she said that “the mind does not tolerate these numbers of Palestinian victims that have become daily.”
She said: «Everything in Gaza screams to stop the war immediately. Non -fruitless, very brutal and brutal. This war must be ended almost every price. The blood on the two sides is shed in vain, and no one comes out of this winner.
Test the leader or military commander not only in the decision to go out to war. This leadership test is no less than this in a proper time. On the eve of the travel of Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) to Washington, he must carry the war in Gaza to its end.
