MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights – Israel is often accused in international arenas of racism and even of operating as an Apartheid state, yet the recent attack on a Druze minority community in the Golan Heights tells a different story.
Company Sgt.-Major Eyal Ghanam, a Druze Israeli, is an Israel Defense Forces commander in the Givati Brigade. He fought in the 2014 Gaza-Israel war and now serves as a reservist in the ongoing war after October 7th.
Ghanam spoke to journalists in the Druze town of Majdal Shams after a Hezbollah rocket killed 12 children as they played on a soccer field last month. Dozens were wounded.
“It’s important to us in every event/incident that we do, this is my message to the whole world because the world needs to understand this,” Ghanam explained. “Every time we need to do an operation or (have) certain operations to do, we always endanger ourselves, we put the highest risk on ourselves so we won’t injure any innocent person.”
Ghanam noted that for a military operation that should take just six hours, the IDF will often spend 12 to 24 hours to avoid civilian casualties.
“This is exactly the reason I personally believe that this war is taking so long,”
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