For months, Gaza has been under constant fire. Bombs are falling, buildings are collapsing, bodies are piling up. These are not “surgical strikes,” they are acts of mass destruction. This is not “collateral damage” ; these are children, mothers, elderly people, entire families, crushed under tons of concrete, murdered. Coldly. What is happening in Gaza has all the characteristics of a crime against humanity on such a scale that we can speak of genocide.

The far-right Israeli government justifies its attacks in the name of the fight against Hamas. But the figures tell a different story. More than 50,000 dead, according to the most recent estimates—mostly civilians—and more than 110,000 wounded. Hospitals bombed. Journalists targeted. Neighborhoods wiped off the map. How can this be justified? Can we still talk about “defense,” or even a fight against Hamas, when all that is happening is destruction, displacement, and mass murder ?

NGOs, UN agencies and observers on the ground are denouncing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. They speak of famine, blockade and mass displacement. They speak of a people being suffocated and collectively punished. And meanwhile, soldiers – some young, others more experienced – are carrying out orders without question.

Israeli soldiers, it is time to face the reality of this war: it does not bring security, it brings shame. It does not protect, it destroys. It does not fight an enemy, it kills innocent people.

Behind every bomb dropped, every bullet fired, there is the human finger of a soldier. It is yours. We like to say that the army is only “following orders.” But since Nuremberg, humanity has clearly established a moral law: to obey an unjust, illegitimate order is to participate in a crime. Have you forgotten that ?

In Gaza, the orders given often require striking without seeing. Shooting “as a precaution.” Demolishing a “suspicious” building. Not distinguishing between enemy and civilian. These orders that you carry out desensitize you, dehumanize you, turn you into instruments of murder and terror. And that is precisely where your moral duty begins: to say no.

Soldiers of the Israeli army, wake up ! There is another front, invisible but decisive: that of human conscience. Don’t be machines! You can think, reflect, doubt. You can refuse. Some have already done so in the history of Israel, often at the cost of imprisonment or ostracism. They refused to serve in the occupied territories, refused to participate in the repression of a people. They were not cowards. They were resisters from within. Human beings who understood that there is no honor in blindness.

How many more deaths will it take for you to understand that you alone are responsible for the tragedy and misfortune of the Palestinian people ? Obeying criminal orders makes you criminals. It is time to break the circle of unconditional obedience that dehumanizes and destroys you. Because in Gaza, it is not only houses that you are destroying, it is not only women, children, and men that you are murdering, it is yourselves that you are slowly killing. And your own country.

To those of you in uniform, refusing to obey is not treason. It is a right. Better still, in certain circumstances, it is a duty. A military order that violates international humanitarian law is illegal, even if it is given by a superior. And carrying out that order does not absolve anyone of responsibility.

The Geneva Convention is clear: civilians must be protected. Attacks must distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. The force used must be proportionate. Yet in Gaza, these principles are flouted on a daily basis. When an entire building is bombed to target a single suspected combatant, it is not a military operation, it is a massacre. When you cut off water, food, and electricity to millions of people, that is not a tactic of war, it is collective punishment, a crime against humanity, genocide.

You cannot say you did not know. The world is watching. Reports are piling up. Journalists are bearing witness. The images speak for themselves. Impunity does not last forever. History catches up with crimes. And one day, each of you will have to answer for your actions. So you might as well choose now to do what is right, before the courts decide. Disobeying in such a context is not weakening your country, it is refusing to cover it in shame. It is preserving what remains of your dignity !

Before you, others in the army have chosen this path. For years, soldiers, former officers, and young conscripts have refused to participate in this war against the Palestinian people. They dared to speak out, they dared to disobey. They are the honor of your country. They are not traitors, they are sentinels of truth.

Israeli soldiers, if you do not want to be accused of cowardice one day—I am talking about the cowardice of dropping bombs on unarmed civilians—there is only one thing left to do: show courage. Not the courage to go to the front as you have been taught, but the courage to say, “No, not in our name, not with us !” That courage, no superior has taught you. It comes from the heart, from the conscience, from that little voice inside that knows that war is a crime.

So now, take action! Don’t silence your doubts, your scruples, your anger. Refuse to obey, desert if you must! History will only remember those who had the courage to disobey. But history will judge harshly those who chose to obey blindly.

Choose your side !