Six IDF soldiers were killed and three others wounded on Thursday morning in two separate incidents. Four soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and two soldiers were killed in a shooting attack at the Allenby Crossing.
The fallen soldiers killed in Gaza were identified as Maj. Omri Chai Ben Moshe hy”d, 26, from Tzafria; Lt. Eran Shelem hy”d, 23, from Ramat Yochanan hy”d; Lt. Eitan Avner Ben Ytzchak hy”d, 22, from Har Bracha; and Lt. Ron Arieli hy”d, 20, from Chadera; Lt. Col. (res.). All four served in the Dekel Battalion of the Bachad 1 officers’ school. Moshe was a company commander, while the other three were cadets who were posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
The two soldiers killed at the Allenby Crossing have been identified as Yitzhak Harosh hy”d, 68, a reservist in the Civil Administration, from Jerusalem; Sgt. Oran Hershko hy”d, 20, a liaison officer with foreign forces in the IDF’s Tevel international cooperation unit, from Tel Mond.
According to the IDF’s preliminary investigation into the Gaza incident, the blast occurred around 9:30 a.m. during an operation in Rafah’s Jenina neighborhood. A D9 armored bulldozer was clearing a route as two Humvees followed behind. When one of the Humvees pulled to the side of the road, it was struck by an explosive device.
The detonation killed the six soldiers instantly and left three others wounded — one seriously and two in moderate condition. The military said it is investigating the nature of the device, how it was detonated, and when it had been planted.
Although Israeli forces have largely cleared Rafah of Hamas fighters and infrastructure, the IDF estimates that several dozen terrorists remain in the area, concentrated in Jenina. Earlier on Thursday, before the attack, troops from the 261st Brigade engaged in three separate clashes with armed operatives in Rafah, the army said.
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The IDF Army Chief of Staff Zamir, and the רמטכ״ל before him, under pressure from the Leftist Military and State Attorney Generals, do not allow our brave soldiers to destroy Hamas terrorists who are clearly seen planting explosives by roads and riding armed in new white trucks and coming out of tunnels and stealing aid trucks, – they send our soldiers over and over again into Hamas explosive traps and snipers, the Leftist Air For e chief Tamir Bar does not monitor and take out the enemy from the air before they can murder our troops! This horrific dangerous IDF LEFTIST LEADERSHIP THAT PROTECTS THE ENEMY WHILE ENDANGERING OUR TROOPS has been going on for 2 years in this Gaza War and exactly the same in 2014 Gaza War.
Their “new Moral Army Doctrine” not only lose the Wars, and strengthens Hamas, they have actually INCREASED the False Propaganda against IDF and Israel in the World, because it weakened our defense and dragged out the War, and shows they are addicted to cease fires instead of destroying enemies and retaking land that was given away in “Peace Treaties” that the enemy VIOLATED with no consequences, except hitting empty buildings.
I call on all the Rabbis of all Yeshivat Hesder to immediately convene an emergency meeting to demand that these Leftist weak IDF Leaders and Commanders be replaced with stronger leadership, and the attorney generals of the courts be replaced by those who are not consistently protecting Hamas terrorists in courts and indicting our troops. They should not send even one more yeshiva Hesder guy to IDF until this leftist weak IDF and IAF leadership are replaced
The IDF Army Chief of Staff Zamir, and the רמטכ״ל before him, HERZI HALEVI, under pressure from the Leftist Military and State Attorney Generals, do not allow our brave soldiers to destroy Hamas terrorists who are clearly seen planting explosives by roads and riding armed in new white trucks and coming out of tunnels and stealing aid trucks, – they send our soldiers over and over again into Hamas explosive traps and snipers, the Leftist Air Force chief Tamir Bar does not monitor and take out the enemy from the air before they can murder our troops! This horrific dangerous IDF LEFTIST LEADERSHIP THAT PROTECTS THE ENEMY WHILE ENDANGERING OUR TROOPS has been going on for 2 years in this Gaza War and exactly the same in 2014 Gaza War.
Their “new Moral Army Doctrine” not only lose the Wars, and strengthens Hamas, they have actually INCREASED the False Propaganda against IDF and Israel in the World, because it weakened our defense and dragged out the War, and shows they are addicted to cease fires instead of destroying enemies and retaking land that was given away in “Peace Treaties” that the enemy VIOLATED with no consequences, except hitting empty buildings.
I call on all the Rabbis of all Yeshivat Hesder to immediately convene an emergency meeting to demand that these Leftist weak IDF Leaders and Commanders be replaced with stronger leadership, and the attorney generals of the courts be replaced by those who are not consistently protecting Hamas terrorists in courts and indicting our troops. They should not send even one more yeshiva Hesder guy to IDF until this leftist weak IDF and IAF leadership are replaced.