the anger of the grandfather of an Israeli soldier who died in Lebanon, “sacrificed by Netanyahu on the altar of his political agenda”

Gur Kehati died in Lebanon on November 20. The grandfather of this Israeli soldier expresses all his anger against the government in place.

He is one of the last Israeli soldiers to die in Lebanon. While the ceasefire has been hanging on a thread for a week, a few days earlier, Gur Kehati was killed by Hezbollah militiamen, during an operation that the army probably should never have authorized. Gur Kehati escorted a civilian dressed as a soldier and tasked with exploring biblical sites on the battlefield. For his grandfather, Asaf Agmon, a former air force general, the ideology of religious Zionists currently in government, killed his grandson.

Gur Kehati died on November 20, in southern Lebanon, at exactly 2:45 p.m., in the same operation as a 71-year-old archaeologist, Zeev Ehrlich, who had nothing to do there. “Gur was the victim of an error by his commander who was unable to prevent the presence of a civilian in an armed operationsays his grandfather, angrily. The civilian was fatally injured. Gur was killed at point blank range, two or three meters away. The bullet shattered the bulletproof vest. And then he collapsed…“

The next day, the young soldier, just 20 years old, was buried at his home in northern Israel. With a quavering voice, behind his dark glasses, his grandfather spoke in front of the family and many relatives. Asaf Agmon claims that the army is infiltrated by politicians and false rabbis and that he no longer recognizes an institution he served for more than 50 years: “Gur died for nothing. This civilian was a settler from the West Bank who thought his mission was to educate the young soldiers of the new generation and make them aware of the importance of many sites in Jewish history, in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.”

“Netanyahu is committing war crimes by sacrificing human lives on the altar of his political agenda. It is a crime!”

In other words, Asaf Agmon accuses the Prime Minister of continuing the war, to meet the demands of his extreme right favorable to colonization, and to maintain himself, thanks to the settlers, in power at all costs.