“No soldiers, no occupation”: Israel’s protests against the small war, but grow Israeli conflict news

“He came to one of the guards and asked me if I was there to save the children of Gaza, then he punched me in the stomach,” said Alon Green, who was telling his experience in an Israeli prison this week.

Green and eight others were arrested on Sunday because of their protest with about 600 others along the Israeli border with Gaza, and they spent two nights and nearly three days in prison before his arrest. Together they represent part of a small but increasingly clear resistance from the resistance in Israel for a war, for various reasons, many Israelis operate their backs.

“Some people protest because they see it as a political war,” said Green, who is also the national director of the active group that stands together, said about the increasing sense of Israel that the war on Gaza is only working to maintain the coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Some are tired of fighting, others want the hostages (to be released from Gaza), and some (protest) as we do to the Palestinians. All of them are welcome.” “Do you want to resist the government? On a welcome and capacity. You do not want to recruit? Welcome. You have supported the war until recently? On welcome and capacity.”

Opinion polls in Israel show that the majority now prefer a deal that would secure the issuance of prisoners who were held in Gaza, even if that means an end to the war on Gaza. However, the war continued.

Green said: “I don’t know whether the common pressure will stop the war,” Green said. “I mean that its supporters were in a minority for a year. He refused (the answer to the call) is our strongest weapon: no soldiers, no occupation. We need more and more people to reject them.”

escalation

All activists against the Al -Jazeera war spoke about an increase in their interest in their movement after the unilateral Israeli side Decision in mid -March For the collapse of the ceasefire, which was previously approved, after months of negotiation.

Others talked about a dramatic increase in support when, after 11 weeks of the continuous blockade in Gaza, Israel announced the latest Collective terrestrial process In the destroyed Palestinian territories on May 17, what is meant, According to one of the Israeli officialUntil it leads to “the invasion of the Gaza Strip and the land contract.”

Before its last attack, Israel summoned what was “tens of thousands” of reserve soldiers to strengthen its numbers in Gaza.

Speaking after announcing the last military attack on Gaza, the Israeli Finance Minister in the right of the extreme right was clearly in what he saw as the targets of the attack, saying that, within months, Gaza will be “completely destroyed” and the remainder of its residents before the war, which numbered millions to a narrow strip of land along the tonic border.

The only resistance

However, despite the new attack to restore the land that was largely destroyed by the Israeli army, the opposition is gaining the land.

Open messages protesting the war have become from military units and reserve forces that publicly refuse to appear to serve more frequent. In April, more than A thousand current and former pilots in IsraelWhich is generally considered the unity of the elite, she wrote an open speech protesting a war that they said served “political and personal interests” of Netanyahu, “and not secretaries.

There are no official numbers for a number of reserve soldiers who did not appear for the duty. However, according to Israeli media reports, the number may reach 100,000. These numbers are in addition to those who reject the initial period of compulsory military service.

Activists say most of these “gray” refuse. That is, people who have not given any political reason for the service rejection, officially rejects other reasons, such as a decrease in medical foundations.

But Sofia Ur, 19 -year -old from Bardis Hana in northern Israel, is one of the increasing number of recruits who refuse their compulsory service and make this rejection as publicly possible.

ORR rejected the service three times after it was summoned on February 24, 2024, each of which was received by the first and second military prison in the military prison. The third cost it 45 days.

“I have already decided to refuse when I was 15 years old,” Ur told Al -Jazeera. She said: “I asked myself, if I went and used in the army, what is the reason I served, is it in line with my values, who really helped?”

“If you recruit, do I just enter the bloodshed cycle that occupies and persecutes the Palestinians daily?” She said about challenging what she described as solid societal expectations for Israeli life.

“I wanted to challenge that, so it was not only about refusal, but doing this publicly and loudly as possible. I needed people to see it and know that we are, so that they could do the same, to bring the Palestinian suffering to Israeli society and the Palestinians to see it and know that they are not alone,” she said.

Organized political resistance

ORR is a member of “Mesarvot”, an Israeli organization that supports conscience opponents in the face of calls from prominent politicians to accompanying them to arrest and prosecute them, including from the cabinet member and former Israeli military spokesman Miri Regev.

“There has been steady growth for escorts since October 7,” said Nimrod Vlashenburg, a political analyst and spokesman for Missarfot, in reference to the 2023 attack on southern Israel, which led to the Israeli war on Gaza, referring to the 2023 attack on southern Israel, which led to the Israeli war on Gaza. “But we have seen a massive increase in 16 years of age, who rejects service recently. There are about a hundred open speech, all of them refuse to serve and explain the reason.”

Vlaschengg said that this broader movement, some of them refused to serve in a war they considered political, and others because they felt that they risked the lives of the prisoners and a minority out of mass killing in Gaza and the West Bank in which they are required to participate.

“There are still Israeli public taboos to show any public sympathy with the Palestinians,” Vlaschengg said about the emergence of Gaza in the reasons that most of the accompanying were presented, nevertheless with the widespread anger. Yer Golan, the former year and the leader of the Democrats Party, Yair Golan, Because he warned that Israel had risked to become a “outcast country” that killed Palestinian children as a “hobby” if it did not “return to rationality.”

“This really indicates the level of ignorance that we are talking about,” Vlaschengor said. “Of course, Israel kills children, but the Israelis cannot accept this.”

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However, while the international condemnation of Israel focuses on exposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Ur, he risks the approval of a more harsh reality.

She said: “For many people here, the Israelis are the real victims, the first, the last and only victims in all of this.” “They do not even see the Palestinians as people, like a threat.”

Green, who immediately joined the protest against the Gaza border after his launch ended during the night of the arrest of the house, was just a killer.

He said: “I am not sure that we will succeed. The government represented a minority of the Israelis for a year, and the war continued.”

However, though, he was not ready to abandon the invitation of the Israelis to wake up.

“Things are already bad enough,” added Green. “We have almost destroyed every building in Gaza, we have killed 18,000 children, and about 53,000 people. This is something that we will have to live with.”

“Do we really want to live with more?”