We're implementing a scorched earth policy. Nothing left.

No.

2931

Date

4 November, 2023

Found by

B.M.

Location

📍 Gaza

Original Social Media Post

""Scorched Earth" Deputy Head of the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank, Brigadier General Yogev Bar Sheshet, early November, outskirts of Gaza City: "Whoever hurts Jews, whoever hurts Israelis, we will destroy their houses. Kill him wherever he lives... There is nothing left. Whoever comes back here later, if they come back, will find only scorched earth. No houses, no agriculture, nothing. No future." Brig. Gen. is the third highest rank in the IDF. Aired on Channel 14, November 4."
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Quoting from https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/389806

"The senior officer requested special permission at the beginning of the war from the director of the Civil Administration to join the Nahal Brigade, whose commander, Col. Yehonantan Steinberg, was killed fighting terrorists. During the war, he assisted in numerous complex battles and maneuvers deep in the Gaza Strip.

In the past, he served as the commander of the Nahal Brigade's 50th Battalion and fought in it during Operation Protective Edge in the Beit Hanoun area. Before that, he served as the Deputy Commander of the Steel Formation (162nd Division), Commander of the Yoav Battalion in the Red Formation (80th Division), and the operations officer in the Southern Command."

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