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Searching and Capturing of Houses
World-Cup
Rank: Staff Sergeant Unit: Charuv battalion Place of incident: Beit Ilma refugee camp Description: I’m telling you, during Operation Determined Road, which took place in August, there were families who were thrown out of their homes because there was a TV there, and people wanted to watch Argentina vs. Nigeria [a World Cup soccer game].
Same thing happened where we were, in Ramallah and Bethlehem. What’s the dynamics? What does “thrown out” mean?
You have a really cool division commander, you belong in an experienced company, this one is not a beret, a second-lieutenant rank on the shoulder, and a ‘keep-your-distance’ kind of commander. It’s a man you go out with on Friday night. He’s one of the crowd; we had some laughs together. There’s this commander authority … cool. Now he too happens to be an Argentina fan; he too wants to watch the game. So you say to him: “Listen, man … here and there … this house and that house, they’re all the same, but here they have a TV, man”. He simply chucked out a family so he can watch Argentina-Nigeria. You see, I’m not even talking to you about the small things.
Searching and Capturing of Houses
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