Hebrew → English transcript

The Hamas guy put his weapon on me. What do you mean? He gives you his weapon?

Gives you the weapon, tells me,“ Run after me.”

I was sitting in an apartment with a few Hamas guys,

and an F- 16 took down a building next to us. Took it down, a high- rise building.

And the whole building basically started collapsing on us.

Everyone is screaming and all that, straight up… an earthquake. A moment of terror.

And the Hamas guy puts his weapon on me, inside this kind of strap, inside a bag.

What do you mean? He gives you his weapon?

Gives the weapon, tells me,“ Run after me.” You could have shot him. Who shot him?

And then what would I do after that? Exactly. Did you think about it?

Of course. They transferred me from one school to another.

Meanwhile, I’m walking, a Hamas guy in front of me and two behind me.

And suddenly it took down a building next to us in the street.

The Hamas guy who was leading me ran.

And I… And the whole building basically sprayed over you.

And I run after him, trying to find him in the night, you know. Really,

then I felt that the army didn’t know where I was.

Intelligence didn’t know where I was.

An intelligence officer who was in charge of me told me: “ Wow,

Eitan, we hardly knew anything about you.”