You're watching Israeli soldiers dump piles of psychiatric medications on the table during a Knesset subcommittee meeting on mental health. The medications included fentanyl and other drugs that soldiers have resorted to as a result of the mental health crisis they're facing due to their role [00:00:17] in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And they argue that the Israeli government is not providing enough support to keep them sane. Now, I think anyone that has a conscience would struggle [00:00:33] with the slaughter of innocents. That continues to happen in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the IDF. And so this has taken a toll not only on the innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip, but it's apparently taking a toll on the mental health of the IDF soldiers [00:00:51] who interrupted and protested during this Knesset subcommittee meeting. Now, this has led to suicides among soldiers. According to figures cited by channel 12, at least 12 soldiers have died by suicide so far in 2025, a figure that does not even include reservists not on [00:01:08] active duty at the time of their deaths. So the number is actually an underestimate. It's actually higher. So in 2024, 21 soldiers died by suicide, the highest annual toll in over a decade. In 2023, the figure stood at 17, including seven [00:01:25] following Hamas's October 7th assault. Most of them reservists. And despite the absolute destruction that Netanyahu's genocide on the Palestinian people has led to, both in Gaza and in [00:01:40] Israel, their economy not doing so well. You have mass protests happening on a regular basis. It's tearing the country apart. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. His complete and utter disregard for the hostages should infuriate and enrage people who were absolutely enraged after what happened on October 7th. [00:02:00] Because there's no indication to me that this current Israeli government has ever given a damn about the hostages. They have used the hostages as a pawn to continue carrying out, you know, the butchering and the brutalization and slaughter of innocent people in Gaza. [00:02:17] And so this, again, what we're seeing with the IDF soldiers, again, I think has a lot to do with the death and destruction they're carrying out. And an Israeli sniper just spoke to Haaretz and admitted to killing [00:02:32] innocent civilians, including children who were attempting to get aid in Gaza. Now, you might be thinking, Anna, isn't this an old story? No, this is a new one. This is a new story with new IDF soldiers who are essentially reinforcing previous reporting from [00:02:47] Haaretz that indicated that they were ordered to shoot at starving Palestinians at these aid hubs that, you know, for the most part, at this point, are run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. So let's get to some of the comments, some of the statements [00:03:03] that they've made in this reporting. So one IDF soldier says it started about two months ago. The soldier who went by the pseudonym Benny, told the Israeli paper as part of a story focusing on the mental toll on IDF soldiers in Gaza. Every day we have the same mission to secure the humanitarian aid [00:03:22] in the northern Gaza Strip. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different direction every time, and I'm there with the sniper rifle and the officers are yelling at me, take him down, take him down! I fire 50 to 60 bullets every day. I've stopped counting kills. [00:03:43] I have no idea how many. I've killed a lot children. So as angry as the IDF's conduct in the Gaza Strip makes me. And it does make me angry. You guys all know this. [00:04:01] There are some percentage of those soldiers who have a conscience, and that conscience is weighing heavy at the moment, considering how many innocent people they know they've killed. Another soldier who went by Yoni shared a story about killing [00:04:16] two children in Bethlehem. That's in northern Gaza after one soldier shouted that terrorists were approaching. So without even confirming anything, you know, they shout terrorist! And at that point, according to this IDF soldier, I saw the bodies of two children, [00:04:34] maybe 8 or 10 years old. I have no idea. There was blood everywhere. Lots of signs of gunfire. I knew it was all on me that I did this. I wanted to throw up. After a few minutes, the company commander arrived and said coldly, [00:04:52] as if he wasn't a human being. They entered an extermination zone. It is their fault. This is what war is like. So it doesn't surprise me at all that the commander said that because they're pretty heartless when it comes to the Palestinian people, [00:05:09] they don't really seem to have any remorse when innocent people die. In fact, even when they are responsible for the slaughter of innocent people, they some way somehow manage to blame it on Hamas. But obviously, some of these IDF soldiers know what the truth is, [00:05:24] and they really can't stomach the fact that they're responsible for killing so many innocent people. But it keeps happening. And there are no brakes on this car. And again, Netanyahu, just to prove how little he cares about anyone, including his own people, [00:05:41] he is tearing his own country apart through his actions, through the continuation of this genocide in Gaza. He knows that by bombing Qatar as cease fire negotiations are supposed to take place with the Hamas negotiators. [00:05:57] Well, he doesn't want peace. He literally blew peace negotiations up because it was never about getting the hostages back. It was always about exploiting the atrocities that took place on October 7th. The fact that those hostages exist to [00:06:14] essentially carry out a political project that Netanyahu has always wanted, which is this expansionist Greater Israel policy. And it also allows him to remain in power at a time when he's facing serious corruption charges. [00:06:29] That's who Netanyahu is. So the ground invasion in Gaza City continues. Already we know that a ton of innocent people have died. You know, you have, the former chief of staff, in Israel opening [00:06:48] up about what the death toll really is. And guess what? Very similar to the death toll that keeps getting reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. You know, the same health ministry that the Israeli government wants you to disbelieve because of the fact that they're run by Hamas. [00:07:03] But then you have this Halevy guy who's like, he's not remorseful. Let me just be clear about that. He's just shedding light on how many people they've killed and how many people are injured in Gaza. So let's put the first graphic up on this, because I want to read you some of his quotes. [00:07:19] Sorry, guys. I don't know what happened to my papers. I'm a mess. But he says so. The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza's 2.2 million population had been killed or injured more than 200,000 Thousand people. [00:07:36] Again, these are numbers that are very similar, very similar to what we have seen reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. The current official toll is 64,718 Palestinians killed in Gaza and 163,859 injured since the start of the war on October 7th, 2023. [00:07:56] Many thousands more are feared dead with their bodies burned in the rubble. So I guess part of me feels at least a little bit of relief that there [00:08:14] are still people who feel guilt, who are able to feel guilt, who are able to see Palestinians as human beings. But even IDF soldiers who have been speaking out and testifying against Netanyahu, against the Knesset, against the Israeli government just get ignored. [00:08:35] And it just kind of shows you the level of brutality this current Israeli government is willing to carry out.