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  • An IDF soldier's description of his experience in Gaza

    Matan Barad|Jun 22, 2018

    (JNS)—Gaza, a place with so much meaning. Words cannot describe the situations my comrades and I have been through. The first time we got to the border we couldn’t imagine what the next four months would be like. The first thing my officer told us when we started duty is that “the fence is a metaphor... only where the IDF is, is there a border.” We couldn’t imagine how right he was. In the past four months, my unit took control over the border, it was at this time the most difficult border in Israel. Israel Independence Day, “Yom Nakba,” prison...