Zionists' female soldiers recount terrors

Zionist regime's documentary featuring six women speaking of their compulsory military service has revealed new details of the regimes atrocities.

The documentary called "To See If I'm Smiling" explores another dark side of the Zionist Regime's 40-year-old occupation of the Palestinian territories and examines its impact on a generation of young men and women.

All but one of the six women interviewed spent time as conscript soldiers in the Palestinian territories during the uprising that erupted in 2000. In the film, they recount their memories from that period, describing how they coped with military machismo and with the residual guilt about what they witnessed.

One girl who had wanted to save lives as a paramedic said she ended up scrubbing corpses of Palestinians to hide signs of abuse by Israeli soldiers.

Director Tamar Yarom said personal experience prompted her to make the film. As a support soldier during the earlier Intifada of the 1980s, she was shown a Palestinian torture victim, slumped over a generator, his neck bent to the side and his face covered in blood.

Almost two decades later, she still cannot shake the image of the man. "It's the kind of picture that stays with you forever," she told Reuters.