IDF Sacrifices Its Commandos to Minimize Lebanese Civilian Casualties
IDF commandos carried out their 17th operation deep in Lebanon. They were dispatched under the cover of darkness to Tyre to make sure that less than 24 hours would be allowed to pass between when a Hezbollah cell launched rockets into Hadera and when that cell would be eliminated. Two of them ended up severely injured in the mission, one sustaining shots to the midsection. Why didn't Israel just let the IAF take care of the job? Because the terrorists were firing from a civilian neighborhood and hiding in an apartment building:
"The 13th Flotilla (Naval Commando Unit) set out during the night in an operation against those responsible for the firing of strategic weapons from a vehicle inside a built-up neighborhood... Forces reached the building inside the city. They approached the five-storey, 16-flat building and went up to the second floor... The fighting area [was] very crowded, inside of a small apartment building... Forces quietly entered the apartment, where three terrorists were hiding out with Kalashnikovs and grenades. When contact was made, the three Hizbullah men were hit by our forces"...
He added that the area of Tyre, to the northeast of the city, is a Hizbullah stronghold, where operatives are taking cover behind innocent civilians. "It was very right to send the crew on the mission," he stressed.
The IDF is the most moral army in the world.
"The 13th Flotilla (Naval Commando Unit) set out during the night in an operation against those responsible for the firing of strategic weapons from a vehicle inside a built-up neighborhood... Forces reached the building inside the city. They approached the five-storey, 16-flat building and went up to the second floor... The fighting area [was] very crowded, inside of a small apartment building... Forces quietly entered the apartment, where three terrorists were hiding out with Kalashnikovs and grenades. When contact was made, the three Hizbullah men were hit by our forces"...
He added that the area of Tyre, to the northeast of the city, is a Hizbullah stronghold, where operatives are taking cover behind innocent civilians. "It was very right to send the crew on the mission," he stressed.
The IDF is the most moral army in the world.
