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Former IDF Combat Officer Testifies at UN Human Rights Council
(Jerusalem Post) Anna Ahronheim - Cpt. (res.) Ravid Elfassi, an IDF officer in the Golani Brigade's reconnaissance unit, was given 90 seconds to present his testimony to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. "It has been said that terrorism in the eyes of one person is a freedom fighter in the eyes of another, but how can you consider yourself a freedom fighter for stabbing a three-month-old baby, Hadas Fogel, in front of her parents? How can someone call himself a Jihadi, a "holy warrior," for taking the life of a child? These are the fanatics who we as IDF soldiers are fighting against on a daily basis." "In 2007, I was sent on a mission in Gaza to seek out a Hamas squad which was launching rockets at Israeli cities. With my own eyes, I witnessed as Hamas sent out six- and seven-year-old children to search for me and my men. When these children found us, Hamas opened heavy fire using AK-47s and RPGs, while the children were still between us and them," Elfassi said.