Post-traumatic stress syndrome, which affects not only victims but also perpetrators, is beginning to be the subject of reports on soldiers of the Israeli army. An article published on CNN talks about Eliran Mizrahi: “He left Gaza, but Gaza did not leave him,” said the mother of this Israeli soldier who took his own life, overcome by the memory of his experience in what some continue to call war and which is pure genocide, extermination , ethnic cleansing. Eliran Mizrahi was stationed in Gaza, he returned home due to a grenade wound in his knee, which could be treated, but with invisible and incurable wounds to his spirit. Two days before rejoining the army, he took his life with a gunshot to the head.
History repeats itself, the soldiers’ statements are repeated (“how can I go home after this?”, “how am I going to hug my children after what I have seen?”), the complaints of their families They repeat themselves: (“no one knows how to help them”, “they feel that no one understands them”). And this time something is added that should not go unnoticed: the soldiers of the Israeli army affected by this syndrome say that This war is very different, they have seen things that were never seen in previous campaigns. Precisely, among other things, because this is not a war, we will have to continue insisting on this.
“He left Gaza, but Gaza did not leave him”
The hell that this completely out of sorts army has created and to which it has condemned the Palestinian population in Loop and West Bank (now also in Lebanon) also finds accommodation in their minds. It is the worst hell, the inner hell. This may be one of the ways to understand that famous phrase attributed to Socrates: better to suffer injustice than to commit it. Better to suffer evil than to cause it. It seems impossible to imagine a worse fate than that of the refugees, the hundreds of refugees, who the Zionist army has burned alive in tents. But it is evident that these flames will not be forgotten by the executioners either.
In Gaza, thousands of civilians are being exterminated, children being deliberately shot in the head, as has already been denounced countless times. This week we talked about a specific child, an eleven-year-old boy who was shot in the heart for throwing stones at an armored vehicle in Nablus. It can’t be easy to forget an image like that, of course for the child’s parents, but not for whoever pulls the trigger either. Dragging and destroying tons of garbage with excavators, regardless of whether among those remains there are corpses, and who knows if there are also badly injured human beings, is also a type of scene that is not at all uncommon and will reappear in the dreams of those responsible. Dropping bombs on a hospital or a school is an infamy, preventing access to medicines to those whom you have previously injured, burned, mutilated, is more than an infamy, it is a memory that should haunt, until making them lose their minds, those responsible. Not to mention something that has always seemed unthinkable to me: torture. Can you forget the screams of a tortured human being? I doubt it.
The magnitude of the war crimes being committed by Israel is unfathomable. Europe’s indolence to condemn them forcefully too. Israel has already clearly stated what its intention is, to raze Gaza, expel all Palestinians and annex the territory. “This land belongs to us,” said the far-right Israeli minister Ben Gvir. If to prove that that land belongs to them they have to kill or expel all its inhabitants, they will do it. They have turned Gaza into hell. But in Europe, in the European Parliament itself, it causes more scandal that a female representative wears a Palestinian scarf in solidarity with the massacred people, than the fact that the massacre, the genocide, is taking place. Europeturned into a hell of immorality, has not yet declared a total arms embargo on Israel, to our shame.
And despite everything, the worst hell, the brightest flames, no one doubts that they burn in the heads of these soldiers who find no rest, who are incapable of sleeping and forgetting the horror caused. Some of them end up taking their own lives, others take their lives from their friends or family, something common in patients with post-traumatic stress syndrome. History repeats itself. Nor can it be said that we did not know about this.
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