In the Lebanese town of Blida, late October 2024, Company C members of 8207th Battalion entered into the its downtown and started blowing homes systematically as a revenge bc the families allegedly collaborated with Hezbollah:
At the same time, Eyal’s C Company worked alongside the Combat Engineering company attached to the battalion in another part of Blida. The company's soldiers cleared the houses, and the engineering troops laid mines around them. Every four hours, all the battalion's soldiers were required to take cover inside the buildings — a countdown was heard over the radio: 3... 2... 1... a massive explosion — and another row of houses was wiped off the face of the earth…. Yom Kippur arrived. In synagogues across the country, people gathered for the holy day's prayers, and the special atmosphere of the fast day was felt everywhere — except in Lebanon. The battalion's fighters could not afford to fast or gather for prayer. They seized every moment to clear another house, to destroy another part of the village, understanding that while civilians had lived here — every family that lived here had collaborated with Hezbollah.”
🧵”their fate is death” Finished reading a book about IDF’s 228th Brigade & its operations in Lebanon autumn 2024. I thought I’d share a few quotes with you My takeaway: an intoxicating culture of satisfaction in comitting war crimes, embraced from command to the front line 👇- Commenting on an incident that occurred near Khiyam along the Israeli border, a soldier fired warning shots at a suspect rather than using lethal force. In response, the commander of Company A, 8207th Battalion, became verbally abusive on his troops and issued the following
- In the Lebanese town of Blida, late October 2024, Company C members of 8207th Battalion entered into the its downtown and started blowing homes systematically as a revenge bc the families allegedly collaborated with Hezbollah: At the same time, Eyal’s C Company worked alongside the Combat Engineering company attached to the battalion in another part of Blida. The company's soldiers cleared the houses, and the engineering troops laid mines around them. Every four hours, all the battalion's soldiers were required to take cover inside the buildings — a countdown was heard over the radio: 3... 2... 1... a massive explosion — and another row of houses was wiped off the face of the earth…. Yom Kippur arrived. In synagogues across the country, people gathered for the holy day's prayers, and the special atmosphere of the fast day was felt everywhere — except in Lebanon. The battalion's fighters could not afford to fast or gather for prayer. They seized every moment to clear another house, to destroy another part of the village, understanding that while civilians had lived here — every family that lived here had collaborated with Hezbollah.”
- This one is particularly cruel, I will show why in the tweet below it. But read this Mais Al-Jabal. Just prior to Battalion 5030’s withdrawal back to Israel October 2024, Captain Yair Schnurmacher, the battalion’s combat engineering officer and a civilian firefighter, used hisWhat makes this mass arson even more egregious is what followed: months later, soldiers actually printed custom t-shirts celebrating the destruction of civilian homes in Meiss El Jabal. The text on the shirt reads: "The arsonists from Meiss El Jabal"Back to the town of Blida. Following a week of operations in Blida, Battalion 8207 received orders to withdraw from the town. But before departing, several soldiers manually entered the few remaining homes that had survived the heavy demolitions and set them on fire leaving theIn Aitaroun, preparing for the battalion's scheduled withdrawal back to Israel in the afternoon, 8207th Battalion Commander Lt. Col Yuval Dagan ordered all of his subordinate commanders to switch their tactical military radios to speaker mode so every single soldier could hear
They cleared the houses, laid the mines, counted down over the radio, and wiped entire rows off the map. Then the battalion rabbi told them fasting was optional. Destroying the village was the real commandment. The doctrine, in their own words.
