Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes
Haaretz by Yoel Elizur 23 December 2024

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  • Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes
'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God':

As a psychologist dealing with brutality in the military, Elizur sees, how the government rhetoric of hatred is worsening the problem

Concern for the safety of family members serving in the army is part of family life in Israel
Like Elizur's contemporaries, he was a worried father when his children served in the IDF and he is a more worried grandfather

Elizur is horrified by the mass killing of civilians, in Gaza and he is disturbed the impact of this brutality, on soldiers' mental health
Israeli soldiers are imperiled by the government's inflammatory rhetoric and weakening of the civilian and military justice systems

These policies undermine the IDF's
1. code of conduct
2. support atrocities
3. and increase the risk of moral injury