For the past 15 months, occupying Israel has carried out brutalities in the besieged Gaza Strip. The extent of the atrocities committed against ordinary people is gradually coming to light.
An Israeli soldier himself has revealed the horrific barbarity inflicted on an 80-year-old elderly man. He was forced to walk for eight hours with an explosive strapped to his neck. Later, the Israeli soldiers killed both him and his wife.
Israeli news outlet HaMakom uncovered these details in an investigative report. The soldier involved in this cruelty told the media, “In the Zaytoun area of Gaza City, we forced him to accompany us on a search operation. An explosive was tied around his neck, and he was warned that if he did not assist us (in searching houses and tunnels) or if he did anything else, the bomb would be detonated, separating his head from his body.”
The soldier further stated, “He walked with us for eight hours like this. He was an 80-year-old man with no ability to escape. He knew that the soldiers behind him could detonate the bomb at any moment and that he could die at any time.”
According to HaMakom, after forcing the elderly man to enter houses and tunnels, the soldiers ordered him and his wife to move to an area called Al-Mawasi. However, the soldiers who subjected him to this brutality did not inform other battalions about them. Shortly after they headed towards Al-Mawasi, other soldiers shot and killed both of them. Their bodies were later found lying on the road.