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Two Years in Hamas Tunnels: Nimrod Cohen Tells His Story
(Ha'aretz) Shay Fogelman - On Oct. 7, Nimrod Cohen, 19, was part of a tank crew which reached the Gaza border fence. But the engine overheated and the tank moved very slowly. It then took a hit from an RPG. They couldn't rotate the turret and the tank filled with smoke. He was the only one who got out of the tank alive. "When we got to Gaza they took me out of the vehicle and tore off all my clothes with a knife, my overalls, everything I had on. They left me completely naked, tied my hands behind my back and took me into a tunnel." "The young people in Gaza were raised on pure hatred from age zero. They see us as monsters and blame us for taking their land and for their not having a future. It feeds itself, because that's how the next generation grows up. The older people, who maybe worked in Israel and spoke a little Hebrew, saw us as human beings. They behaved more moderately and you could communicate with them, but they were also the ones who educated the younger ones to hate."