"You entered Gaza (after Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught) to take revenge — as much as possible. [Against] women, children — everyone you saw. As much as possible. That's what you wanted," said Uriah Ben-Natan, the brother of 22-year-old Sgt. First Class (res.) Shuvael Ben-Natan, from the northern West Bank settlement of Rehelim.
"You were the happiest and biggest goofball in the platoon. We realized this for the first time when you set a house on fire without approval in order to boost morale," said one of his fellow soldiers in a subsequent eulogy at the funeral.
Ben-Natan's father David referenced his son's arrest last year for shooting dead a 40-year-old Palestinian man in front of his wife and children while they were harvesting olives in the West Bank.
Despite having been severely wronged, Ben-Natan put what happened behind him and decided that he was still going to enlist after October 7, his father claimed at the funeral.
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