![]() ![]() Learn from Tal about how some women soldiers, in order to earn the respect of their male counterparts, become more aggressive and violent. Hear her recount how one night, out of boredom, she and a fellow soldier broke into a Palestinian family’s home, shut the family in a room, and tore the place apart. Hear her describe the sadistic treatment of powerless Palestinians, with the encouragement of high-ups. Listen to Gil’s experience on a patrol through Hebron’s Casbah, when a fellow soldier beat a Palestinian man merely for being there and she was reprimanded for asking why. ![]() Hear how when she passed on the report of the abuse, her supervisor told her to go back and get a different report. Hear Inbar describe the night she was ordered to investigate why a young Palestinian boy was at an IDF post, and how the soldiers at the post openly told her how they were arbitrarily holding and abusing the boy. Hear her describe her fellow soldiers’ excitement when they finally unearthed something interesting - the father’s stash of porn tapes, humiliating the father even more in front of his wife and children. Not, it turned out, because they expected to find anything – just to show who was boss. Listen to Dana talk about the first time she was ordered to conduct a body search of a Palestinian woman (actually two), during an operation in which soldiers invaded and tossed a Palestinian home in the middle of the night. Then take the time to listen to some of their stories to understand better the experiences that drove them to do so. Watch and listen to people like Dana, Inbar, Tal, Gil and Yael, explain why they are speaking out. These testimonies present a very different face and voice of Israel’s female combatants. Last month BTS launched a campaign focused on testimonies from female soldiers. ![]() This is the one in which young Israeli women are speaking out, candidly and courageously, about their experience enforcing the occupation as part of an Israeli initiative called Breaking the Silence (BTS). There’s another story that the media would do well to highlight. Fortunately, this flashy, tawdry story isn’t the only recent news about women in the IDF. ![]()
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