An Israeli soldier posted an image of a Palestinian 'for sale'. The Palestinian is missing
On 18 November last year, an Israeli soldier named Harel Amshika posted a nine-image carousel on his personal Instagram account, accompanied by some reflections on his time spent fighting in Gaza.
His years spent fighting had “passed quickly, but left a big mark,” he wrote. “Being a warrior in such a time is a privilege… Gratitude for sleepless nights... And a very long war. To friends who became family. To experiences that I never thought I would have, for better or worse.”
Amshika went on to thank his unit, the Shaked Battalion, which falls under the Givati Brigade of the Israeli military. He paid tribute to the soldiers he knew who’d been killed in Gaza, with his bio singling out Ido Zano, a combat medic who also served in the Shaked Battalion.
One of the photos in the carousel showed a Palestinian man in an all-in-one white hazmat suit with “B4” scrawled just beneath his right shoulder in black marker pen.
The man’s feet are bare. His hands and ankles are tied. He is sitting against a cement block. He is blindfolded with what appears to be green cloth, or green tape. Above him, sitting on top of an adjacent block, the bottom half of another man, his hands and feet also bound with plastic zip ties, can be seen.
Over this image, posted to Instagram, is a caption. It reads: “For sale”.
The Instagram post has since been deleted. The whole account, in fact, has been deleted, though Amshika has started a new one with a very similar username and a bio that reads, “Just for fun”. But archived copies of the post and screengrabs of the photograph have circulated on social media.
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His years spent fighting had “passed quickly, but left a big mark,” he wrote. “Being a warrior in such a time is a privilege… Gratitude for sleepless nights... And a very long war. To friends who became family. To experiences that I never thought I would have, for better or worse.”
Amshika went on to thank his unit, the Shaked Battalion, which falls under the Givati Brigade of the Israeli military. He paid tribute to the soldiers he knew who’d been killed in Gaza, with his bio singling out Ido Zano, a combat medic who also served in the Shaked Battalion.
One of the photos in the carousel showed a Palestinian man in an all-in-one white hazmat suit with “B4” scrawled just beneath his right shoulder in black marker pen.
The man’s feet are bare. His hands and ankles are tied. He is sitting against a cement block. He is blindfolded with what appears to be green cloth, or green tape. Above him, sitting on top of an adjacent block, the bottom half of another man, his hands and feet also bound with plastic zip ties, can be seen.
Over this image, posted to Instagram, is a caption. It reads: “For sale”.
The Instagram post has since been deleted. The whole account, in fact, has been deleted, though Amshika has started a new one with a very similar username and a bio that reads, “Just for fun”. But archived copies of the post and screengrabs of the photograph have circulated on social media.
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