Yesh Atid MK Haim Jelin, who was head of the Eshkol Regional Council before becoming an MK, says that 4-year-old Daniel Tregerman, who was killed during Operation Protective Edge, “paid with his life for the morality of the Israel Defense Forces.”
Speaking at the Knesset after the publication of the UN report on the summer war between Israel and Gaza, Jelin says “the IDF knew that in Shejaiyah [an east Gaza neighborhood] there are ten barrels aimed at Nahal Oz, but the army also knew that there were some 3,500 noncombatants. The ID did everything to save noncombatants – dropped leaflets, did the ‘knock on roof’ procedure and even then sometimes avoided firing back.”
“No one can teach me what morality means,” Jelin adds. “I live dfacing the Gaza Strip for 39 years. I came here from a dictatorial country [Jelin was born in Argentina in 1958], I served in the IDF, I lost friends because they did everything to protect the innocents on the other side. We teach to defend, while they teach to kill,” Jelin says.
The local council head is among the few Israeli civil servants who testified to the commission.
Yesh Atid MK Haim Jelin. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
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