Thousands of youngsters have joined the army since October 7 — and it is illegal to refuse. Sofia Orr is likely to become the first woman since then to be jailed for refusing military service, but believes it is ‘wrong to take children and make them into soldiers’
  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    681·
    7 months ago

    KEEP IT UP!

    The Israeli prison system is already overflowing because of the war. Make it flow over even worse.

    As of last week, the number of prisoners in Israeli jails numbered some 19,372, an increase of over 3,000 since October and significantly more than the maximum prison population of 14,500 mandated by law.

    (I’m quoting Times of Israel but I don’t want to link them in any form, you can find that if you want to.)

    Here’s another figured from them

    Amid the war in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has called up a total of 287,000 reservists

    The total prison capacity is 14.500, and it’s already overflowing.

    Even if every 50th IDF reservist or conscript refuses to go, it’s still 6000 people more for them to deal with. If every tenth conscript/reservist refused, it’d be twice the total prison capacity on top of the already problematically overflowing prisons.

    Swamp the system.

    So even a tiny majority refusing to go and instead choosing prison over participating in genocide can have a huge impact, indirectly.