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Why Israel will now conceal its soldiers’ identity
FirstpostThe Israel Defense Forces has announced that the names and faces of its soldiers – both on active duty and in reserves – will be kept secret. The development comes after a court in Brazil initiated a probe into allegations of war crimes in Gaza by a visiting Israeli soldier IDF soldiers navigating through the rubble. “All that was there was a picture of me in uniform in Gaza.” He said he wanted to “get off the radar and continue my life.” As per Times of Israel, it remains uncertain if this will have any impact on the attempts to get IDF soldiers tried for war crimes. A former senior officer in Israel’s Judge Advocate General’s department told CNN that the activist groups were not going after high-ranking soldiers and politicians but regular members of the army.
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