Israeli teen jailed for refusing to serve over Gaza conflict | Watch in Full

why have you steadfastly decided not to enlist violence doesn't solve problems and that I think that for 70 years we've been seeing the same policy of occupation of Siege and I can't take part in it and the war has only strengthened my opinion I believe that every person should work to stop the violence from their own position you reported for Duty so to speak but told them that you would not be participating what is the process so I I arrived at the uh enlistment uh place I told them I'm not I'm not doing this I refuse um so they've heard of this before and they sent me to the um holding cell and then I got sentenced for 30 days and you spend your sentence in a military prison yes what what is life like that we're treated like soldiers inside the military prison you wake up early you always clean your cell you have to stand still for long periods of time do you think some of the people that you serve time with or some of the guards or even The Wider Israel public consider you a traitor I don't only think I've I've heard it a lot of times before I don't consider myself a traitor obviously I think that I'm working for both the best interests of Israelis and Palestinians because none of us are free until we are all free it's only peace and it's only Freedom that will bring us security what do you think specifically about the war in Gaza at the moment the objective of the war is to eliminate Hamas and to bring back the hostages I feel like both of these objectives they can't be achieved with more and more fighting because like we saw the way that we brought back the hostages at the end of the day was a deal where we exchanged prisoners for hostages about the the second objective of uh eliminating Hamas also will not be achieved with fighting the way that Hamas will not rule in Gaza anymore is when the gazan civilians uh will lose lose trust in them and the only way to make that happen is by showing people that there is another way you now got a report for Duty again on Tuesday you'll refuse to serve again will you yes they think that sentencing me for 30 days will somehow make me feel threatened but I don't feel threatened I I'm still I stay with my beliefs and I'll refuse to serve once again there are ways of getting exemptions in other ways for example mental health um exemption but I feel like not wanting to serve is not a mental problem and it shouldn't be SE is such I want to show that I don't want to serve because of my beliefs and because of my values and that is not a mental problem and you fully expect to go back to prison on Tuesday evening yes on Tuesday afternoon or evening I'll be sent back to prison for another sentence must play on your mind a bit I think to myself that I've gone through 30 I can take another 30 and I can take another 30 after that because I know that a lot of people support me um and that I'm and I'm succeeding in making a change and showing the world that there's another way and that we can choose nonviolence over violence

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Id: 4n5fjslB3XY

Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 22 2024