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The documents were reported to be low classification. The IDF forbids officers from leaving classified documents unsupervised in their cars.
At the Israel Navy Erez Arena Control Center just north of the Gaza Strip, officers and soldiers turn an array of high-tech sensors in the direction of Gaza, aware that any blind spot could end up carrying a heavy price tag for the Israeli civilian communities all around them that they protect.
In the Boston area, students learn life lessons from a group of wounded Israeli soldiers known as “Brothers for Life,” who grapple with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other post-combat challenges.
Palestinian violence has become commonplace at the security fence, particularly after Friday-morning prayers. But “Naksa Day”—the day chosen to decry Israel’s victory and territorial acquisitions during the 1967 Six-Day War—was expected to bring additional acts of terror.
Hamas is not the only entity trying to set things on fire. Iran and its proxies, such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, have sought to infiltrate the West Bank and create armed cells there.
Multiple targets within a military compound connected to the Hamas naval force were pounded by Israeli airstrikes following renewed rocket attacks by the terror organization.
“The Hamas terror organization again chooses to act against the interest of the residents of the Gaza Strip. After it failed during the violent riots along the security fence, it now chooses to conduct and allow a wide-scale attack against Israeli civilians,” according to the IDF Spokespersons Unit.
“The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is terrorist organization rooted in Iranian ideology,” said the IDF Spokesperson Unit. “Today, they used Iranian-made weapons.”
A large IDF force entered the al-Am’ari refugee camp in Samaria on Monday to find the attacker who fatally wounded Ronen Lubarsky, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier from the elite Duvdevan unit.
Today, Israel stands out as the dominant military power in the Middle East. It has been able to accomplish this while reducing the burden of defense expenditure on its gross national product from a peak of 24 percent in the post-1973 war years to about 6 percent today.
A member of the elite Duvdevan army unit, he passed away two days after a large slab of marble was dropped on him during a mission to arrest terrorists.
