A reserve Israeli drone operator named Nir describes in a Haaretz how Israeli soldiers killed 15 aid workers, including 8 Red Crescent medics, in Rafah on March 23, 2025 - shooting them as they lay behind ambulances begging for their lives, then crushing the ambulances with D9 bulldozers and burying the bodies on site. He describes the "yellow line" in Gaza shifting westward without authorization, turning civilian farmland into firing zones, and soldiers retroactively fabricating justifications for killing unarmed people: "he came for a weapons deal," "he touched the ground, maybe planting a mine." He describes the word "terrorist" becoming flexible, a building struck on an estimate that killed 15 civilians while the wanted person was not among them, and soldiers in attack cells screaming "kill him" like spectators at a sports game. A division intelligence officer told him: "You have two million targets in Gaza." When he asked his commander what to do if a child appeared on screen, the answer was: "It's gray."
[...] In recent months he decided to file a claim with the Ministry of Defense so they would recognize his psychological injury. Then he discovered that he was alone, in more than one sense. The connection with the squadron was gradually cut off - some of his friends stopped answering his phone calls or messages in the WhatsApp group, and then he also discovered that he was no longer part of it. "My best friends kicked me out," he says. He is now left to deal with his feelings, which are not going anywhere. "The fact that you kill someone from a distance doesn't mean you're not affected by the consequences of the killing," he emphasizes. "The technology is designed to keep the soldier away from physical danger, but it doesn't keep the soul away - sometimes it does exactly the opposite."
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/2026-09-09/ty-article-magazine/.premium/000001a0-7712-d7d5-a9fc-7fffb1a00000
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