Israel recruits non-Israeli Jews to fight in Gaza

Israel recruits non-Israeli Jews to fight in Gaza

Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:26AM GMT

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Israel is recruiting young Western Jews to use them in the war on the besieged Gaza Strip, Press TV reports.

The young Western Jews include many Britons, who have been joining Israel’s army under a program called “the Mahal,” which targets young non-Israeli Jews, men younger than 24 and women younger than 21.
The death toll from Israel’s military attacks on Gaza has risen to more than 800 now, with thousands more injured and displaced.
Some estimates show there are currently as many as a hundred British Jews fighting for the Israeli regime against the oppressed Palestinian nation.

“Many of those have gone to join the Israeli army, perhaps for an 18 months period or something similar, will presumably be taking part in operations within Gaza, some of which have been alluded to very recently of course, and the UN body has seen them as potential war crimes,” Charles Shoebridge, a security analyst, told Press TV.

“That has implications for those British people taking part because those people could then be prosecuted,” Shoebridge added.

“Should people come back to the United Kingdom, perhaps they are traumatized, perhaps they had caught PTSDs. Those people could come back to the United Kingdom and even if they were not to take action against the mainstream community  or the state itself, then there’s a possibility of course that they could decide to target individuals in Britain based upon their religion or their ethnicity,” Shoebridge said.

"The Mahal" recruitment project is reportedly currently working on plans to have thousands of volunteers from more than 40 countries enrolled in all branches of the Israeli military, many of them in combat units.  
Last week, the US State Department confirmed that two US citizens, Max Steinberg and Sean Carmeli, who were serving in the Israeli army, were killed in Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.
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