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Israeli soldier testimonials stoke Gazans' claims of war crimes

Palestinians believe a report of firsthand accounts by Israeli soldiers and officers who fought in the 2014 Gaza war prove that Israel committed war crimes in its conduct of the conflict.
Palestinians walk past the ruins of houses that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, where Palestinian boy al-Hassan, who was born in January 2014 after being conceived with his jailed father's sperm smuggled out of an Israeli prison, lives May 10, 2015. Hana, the Gaza wife of al-Za'an, a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail, gave birth to a baby boy in January 2014 in the first successful smuggling of sperm to lead t
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Breaking the Silence, an organization founded in 2002 to document the Israeli army's activities in the occupied territories, surprised Palestinians on May 4 with a report on the 2014 Gaza war. The 240-page "This Is How We Fought in Gaza," published in English and Hebrew, features 111 testimonials by 60 Israeli soldiers and officers who participated in Operation Protective Edge.

According to the report, the Gaza war, which lasted 50 days, claimed the lives of more than 2,200 Palestinians and wounded more than 11,000, most of them civilians. In addition, the total population of Gaza is slightly less than 1.8 million, and more than half a million of them were displaced. Some neighborhoods were completely destroyed.

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