‘I’m an IT worker from Radlett drafted to fight for Israel – I’m petrified but people need us’

'In my head you are a soldier, you need to be strong, brave and show the other side that they don't scare you,' Josh Banks, 24, told i

‘In my head you are a soldier, you need to be strong, brave and show the other side that they don’t scare you,’ Josh Banks, 24, told i

In Israel, at least two years’ military service is compulsory for most Israeli citizens over the age of 18. Mr Banks, who usually lives in the central city of Herzliya, said his roommate suggested recording a video for his family “in case anything happens to you”, an idea the server technician initially “laughed off”.“In my head, you are a soldier, you need to be strong, brave and show the other side that they don’t scare you,” he said.Mr Banks decided to film himself nonetheless, and when he started recording, the 24-year-old burst out crying.

When his family calls, it’s “very hard to hold back the tears”, Mr Banks said as the death toll on both sides has risen to a total of more than 2,150 in just a few days. To the 2.3 million residents of Gaza, the mobilisation and intense bombardment look ominously familiar: the prelude to a ground invasion that may match, or even eclipse, Israel’s incursions in 2008 and 2014.

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