About 50 female soldiers who were recruited at the beginning of the week and assigned to surveillance duty refused to report for duty at the training base of the Border Protection Corps in the Aravah, Ynet reported.
According to the report, some of them were detained and sentenced to military prison.
The soldiers’ refusal comes in the wake of the disaster that befell the female surveillance soldiers on October 7th at the Nachal Oz base next to the Israeli-Gazan border. Fifteen soldiers and three officers were killed and six were taken hostage. The soldiers, who were unarmed, had repeatedly warned their superiors of ominous Hamas activities on the border but their warnings went unheeded and they paid for their commanders’ failures with their lives.
About 1,600 female soldiers are recruited for surveillance duty each year. However following the October 7th massacre, only about 300 soldiers are interested in serving in the position, according to data obtained by Ynet.
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari was asked about the report on Tuesday evening and responded: “There were female surveillance soldiers in Nachal Oz and we have a moral and ethical obligation to correct what happened that day when we failed to protect this base. Surveillance is one of the most important positions – in the north, the south, in the Shomron – in protecting the State of Israel. This need will continue and therefore we need to persuade soldiers to serve and create the best conditions for service. This is the duty of the IDF and we will continue to persuade and explain that this position is so vital and we need women and men in this position.”
After the story was exposed by Ynet, it caused a public outroar and an update on Ynet on Thursday evening said that the female recruits were all released from military prison and were assigned to other positions in the IDF. The army emphasized that the IDF recruited all the surveillance soldiers they needed, and even in larger numbers than in the past.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Wow. Wow. Everyday we learn more and more about how bad things were on that dark day, Israel always was, and always will be in a state of war, when we let our guards down, we become extremely vulnerable
For Hashem, your G-d, walks in the midst of your camp,’ and He should ‘not see any immodest thing among you.’ When He sees that among the Jewish people, wherever they are, there is nothing that is contrary to modesty, He walks among them, ‘to save you and to place your enemies before you.’ We have lost our sense of modesty.
women shouldn’t be conscripted. only 2 countries in the world have compulsory service for women – israel and north korea! also, what’s the use of observers when the generals ignore their reports?
The normal response would be to take solid steps to address the legitimate concerns.
Only in an army, serving the Heretic “Jewish” State are women conscripted.
Heresy at its best.
It is war. Find others positions or jail. No patience for woke. Israel at war. No sightseeing traffic either to witness horror. Selling tickets to death doesn’t ring well. Stop countries from entering israewho were complicit in Nazi war. We don’t need tourists we need our families. Stop China as well. Stop anything everything that harms.
they’re safer in jail. they won’t be raped and murdered in the next hamas attack, they’ll have 3 square meals a day, somewhere warm to sleep, and they’ll eventually be released – before the hostages!