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• “Of course it’s a #genocide. We would shoot at anyone, children and women too”.

• “Even if they didn’t pose any danger?”

• “Of course, none of them had any weapons! I think I saw an armed Palestinian only once, but we used to kill hundreds of them every day”

• “We were fine. We were happy. It was fun. It was like a videogame”

• “What do you mean? Killing was fun? Including children? Even if they weren’t armed? Whole families?”

• “There was a psychologist. We could talk to him if we needed. But we didn’t need it because we were fine”

• “Mine is an elite unity. We would identify the buildings to blow up while families were still in. We destroyed whole neighbourhoods. We destroyed the whole north of the Gaza strip because there should have been no houses to get back to. We set on fire memories, pictures, books, everything. We would fill up houses with gas and set them on fire, or we would gather all the pillows in the middle of the living room and set them on fire. Wool burns very well. In a minute the whole apartment was on fire. Mine was a unit made of left-wing youngsters. From Tel Aviv’s higher classes. We don’t hate the Arabs. We did it because it had to be done”.

• “The settlers, the crazy ones, those who believe in a crooked God and do strange things like not bathing or reproduce like rabbits: those perhaps hate the Arabs. But we progressive left-wing youngsters aren’t like that: we only did what we were told to do and then we’d smoke a cigarette or come back to have an aperitif together”

• “I asked my supervisor: ‘What do you think of what we’re doing here?’ He told me: ‘It’s right. You must just trust the system’”

• “We only do what the Israeli society tells us to do. If they tell us that Gaza must be wiped out, then we must wipe it out”

• “I went to Poland to visit concentration camps. I keep believing that Nazis were Nazis. But I don’t know what I am”

Interviews to Israeli soldiers published in the NAZA documentary