The Israeli website "Siha Mekumet" discussed this issue in an investigation entitled "They all loot, the leaders know" Soldiers are not ashamed to film what they are doing, nor even to appear in their recordings with their faces uncovered. Soldiers justify cases of theft by wanting to preserve a “memory” For him, the fact that the house is “finished” (i.e., destroyed) entitles him to seize a rug or a plate.
Even rosaries and school textbook maps were stolen, “to show them what they teach their children there,” says another.