Roy Sommer knows he could go to jail if he refuses to return to Gaza, but that's a risk he's willing to take.

Sommer, a reservist, has already served five years with the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), including recent tours in Gaza and Lebanon, but made a decision not to return to Gaza when his commander officially summons him for military service.

The 24-year-old is among a growing number of Israeli youth who are publicly questioning their role in the war in Gaza. Some who are just coming of age are refusing their country's mandatory military drafts . Others who already served, like Sommer, are refusing to go back.

"In my opinion, the moral circumstances that are currently ongoing aren't allowing me to go along with the war," he told CBC's host Nil Köksal.

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