From razing rubble to blowing up homes: IDF soldiers share how they expanded Gaza buffer zone in new report [Video]

A new report from Breaking the Silence (BtS), an Israel-based NGO, has compiled testimony from soldiers who detail how they razed plots of land during the war in their mission to expand the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel deeper into the strip. 

BtS, which was founded by Israel Defence Forces veterans, has released a report titled The Perimeter: Soldiers’ testimonies from the Gaza Buffer Zone 2023-2024, containing information from interviews with dozens of IDF soldiers who served in Gaza and participated in the expansion of the buffer zone, which the report refers to as the perimeter. CBC News was able to speak to one of those soldiers who provided details of the IDF’s activities in the area that runs north to south along the border.

Since it was founded in 2004, BtS has published reports based on more than 1,400 accounts from IDF soldiers based on their experiences while serving in Gaza, the West Bank …