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Eighteen-year-old Israeli Tal Mitnick explains his decision to refuse mandatory military service in this video posted by the organization Mesarvot. ‘The criminal attack on Gaza won’t solve the atrocious slaughter that Hamas executed,’ Mitnick says in the video. He was later jailed for his decision.
Tal Mitnick, the first Israeli jailed for refusing mandatory conscription after the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, leans back in his seat in the Saint Paul University’s auditorium in Ottawa.
On Dec. 26, 2023, Mitnick arrived at an enlistment centre in central Tel Aviv and publicly announced that he would refuse to serve with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
“I had a choice: to be part of this force currently genociding my neighbours, that is killing people’s loved ones, or I had a choice to refuse,” he told CBC News.
He was detained for five consecutive 30-day sentences, the maximum sentence refuseniks get, in accordance with Israeli law.
The 19 year old, who was …
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