Breaking the Silence to give state info from its Gaza war report

Breaking the Silence agrees to give the state some of the raw materials it collected for a report it published last year on the 2014 Gaza report, a Petah Tikva District Court announces.

The report included allegations by more than 60 officers and troops of abuse and excessive use of force.

The decision to hand over some of the raw material came in response to a court case brought by the state against the NGO, demanding it release the information. The state attorney’s office says that anonymous witnesses allow potential lies to spread and make it impossible to investigate alleged abuses.

The organization argued that they should be given journalistic privileges to protect their sources as they do “journalistic work.”

Breaking the Silence has now agreed to give information on four specific incidents but will not give any details of the sources.