Israel – The IDF announced Friday that Staff-Sergeant Major (res.) Yair Ashkenazy, a 36-year-old soldier from Rehovot serving in the reserves brigade of the Bahad 1 officer training base, was killed in battle early Friday morning in the north Gaza Strip.
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The funeral for St.-Sgt. Maj. Ashkenazy will be held on Friday at 4:00 p.m. at the Rehovot Military Cementary.
On Friday morning, the IDF and Shin Bet struck the Rafah home of senior Islamic Jihad member Salah Abu Hasnin. A member of Islamic Jihad’s supreme military council, Hasnin was killed in the attack. Hasnin was also the head of Islamic Jihad’s spokesman division in Rafah.
Also on Friday, the Armored Corps Unit uncovered a tunnel shaft. The unit came under fire near the tunnel by a terror cell, and returned fire. Two terrorists were killed.
An additional armored unit then uncovered a booby-trapped home filled with explosives, as well as underground rocket launchers.
Overnight between Thursday and Friday, the IDF struck several command and control posts used by Gazan terror organizations It also struck Hamas’s domestic security ministry, and the military office of Ra’ad Thabat, a senior weapons production operative in Hamas.
On Wednesday, three IDF paratroopers were killed when Palestinian terrorists detonated a bomb in their vicinity in the southern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, two soldiers were killed on Tuesday evening in fighting in Gaza.
Thirty-three soldiers have been killed over the past week of combat.
The IDF has killed around 240 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists since the start of the ground offensive last Thursday.
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two years ago IDF cut the budget for annual retraining of the reservists.
Now they are being sent into Gaza out of shape and with Vietnam era weapons.
B’DH
All of the American armchair generals calling for war war war are not the children who will grow up without a father, the wife who is alone now or the parents who must bury a son.
The Arab League Peace Initiative has been on the table since 2002.
Israel will not even TALK. Why, why, why oh dear G-d??
Only 240 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists?
Forget the tunnels…go after the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists. Tunnels don’t kill…terrorists kill.