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One brother is at war in Gaza The other is working to expose war crimes there

Dina RickmanAug 07, 2014 Yonatan Gher, the executive director of Amnesty International Israel, is having a very different war to his younger brother. Mr Gher is a conscientious objector, which means he refuses to serve in the Israeli army - unlike his 20-year-old sibling. His work with Amnesty also means he spends his days "documenting and campaigning on apparent crimes perpetrated by both sides of this conflict." As Mr Gher explains in a blog, he spends his days worried about human rights abuses and being worried sick about his family. "We joke sometimes that if the rest of the world heeds Amnesty International’s call for an arms embargo [to Israel], I’ll be coming for his gun first", he writes. And of his 5-year-old son, he adds: My son spends his mornings in kindergarten, hearing about the soldiers protecting us. He boasts about his own uncle the brave soldier. The children draw pictures which are sent to the combating army units and hung up on tanks and artillery. In the evening, during another siren, he asks me whether there are sirens in Gaza too. I explain that kids in Gaza have none, nor do they have an Iron Dome. “What protects kids there?” he asks. More: Did George Galloway really declare Bradford an 'Israel-free zone'?
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