
One example, is Zaid. He was sitting with his wife and children in his living room, watching a television show, when all of a sudden he hears a loud bang, and immediately after that the front door had collapsed. In the doorway stood three soldiers, and one after another, they began filing into the house. Zaid's wife began screaming and running to the adjacent room, because she didn't have anything covering her hair. The children began screaming and crying. They wet their clothes. Zaid started asking the soldiers for a warrant. They began laughing and continued with their "playtime".They were destroying anything that lay in their path. Television sets, plates, vases, paintings. One soldier made his way to the roof of the house and destroyed the satellite dish. This is considered amusing to the IDF.
For no particular reason, they enter a Palestinian home, and demolish it's contents. No person on Earth has the right to go through another's personal possessions without a search warrant. The innocent family lay there helpless, watching their valuable possessions scattered, destroyed, and laughed upon.
Imagine someone going through your things. You watch the photo albums that had pictures of your dead grandparents being destroyed and laughed upon. You feel desperation and helplessness, and you hate these monsters to a degree you've never felt before.
These raids have a long term affect on people, and can scar them. No matter how long this occupation has been in effect, no one will ever get used to this sort of behavior.
Going back to Zaid's story: After the soldiers were finished, and there was simply nothing left to destroy, they fire hundreds of bullets through the wall and made a hole, so that they can exit the house. After a few days, Zaid found out why the IDF were in his home. They wanted to arrest a man two buildings beside Zaid's home, and the IDF soldiers did not want to risk their lives by walking in the dark streets. Instead, they cut holes in people's houses and have some "fun" while they are at it.
I feel such rage and hate, even though I've never been through this! I cannot possibly imagine what this would feel like and its afffects. Can they get any more cruel than this?
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