Four Soldiers of the FDI imprisoned for 10 days after refusing to lead Hummer without protection in the city of Gaza

The soldiers who were arrested had asked to make the trip a few hours before, while it was still dark.

Four soldiers in the Nahal Brigade of the FDI were imprisoned for 10 days after they had refused to drive a unprotected Hummer through an area in the city of Gaza that the military had not completely assumed, the Israeli public broadcaster Kan News reported on Wednesday.

The purpose of the mission was to bring workers who would take engineering tools to the Gaza Strip.

The soldiers who were arrested had asked to make the trip a few hours before, while it was still dark.

‘The last of the forces in the city of Gaza’

“We are the last of the forces in the city of Gaza, there are no forces behind us, we were asked to travel on a very dangerous route surrounded by buildings that the IDF have not yet destroyed,” said one of the soldiers to Kan. “Such missions are carried out in a tank or in a armored vehicle, or at night. We have made innumerable missions in the dark, never in daylight.

“During the day, we are like ducks in a shooting field. It is easy for a sniper or a grenade propelled by rockets. This is a true threat to our lives. These are things that have already happened; the IDF should have learned this for now.

“I don’t even care if they kill me if I’m saving my friends,” he continued. “We feel that we have been spitting on the face.”

Kan’s report interviewed a mother from one of the arrested soldiers, who also said that the army “spit on the faces of the soldiers.”

The Commander of the Battalion of the soldiers responded to the critics of the order, stating: “I am the commander of the battalion, making decisions about human life every minute. I have the discretion regarding the risk for my soldiers in relation to the values ​​of the mission. A red line has been crossed here, to shun to carry out a very legitimate mission.”