A former Israeli Air Force pilot has described the Israeli government and army as “terrorist organisations” run by “war criminals.” According to a report in The Middle East Monitor (MEMO), Yonatan Shapira has confessed that the Israeli army is a terrorism organization.

Captain Shapira who had resigned from the Israeli army in 2003 at the height of the Palestinian Second Intifada explained in an exclusive interview with Anadolu News Agency why he realized after joining the army that he was “part of a terrorist organisation”.

“I realised during the Second Intifada what the Israeli Air Force and Israeli military are doing are war crimes, terrorising a population of millions of Palestinians. When I realised that, I decided to not just leave but to organise other pilots that will publicly refuse to take part in these crimes,” he told The MEMO.