Members of a group of 27 Israeli pilots refusing to fly missions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are being grounded. At least nine of the active-duty pilots were suspended, according to the Jerusalem Post. In a letter to the head of the air force, the group called Israel’s attack orders “illegal and immoral.”
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