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The Israeli regime military says seven of its troops were killed in the southern Gaza Strip after an armored vehicle they were traveling in was hit by an explosive device on Tuesday.
Effie Defrin, the chief spokesman for the Israeli military, said on Wednesday that seven personnel, including an officer, were killed by an explosive device in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
This marks the highest death toll in a single incident in Gaza for the Israeli military since a ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement collapsed in March following Tel Aviv’s resumption of aggression.
He described the deaths as painful and difficult and part of a “complex” incident that was still being investigated, adding that the battalion to which the soldiers belonged had been locating and demolishing tunnels and killing Palestinian resistance fighters.
sure seems like they only had minutes worth of training. All of them were sitting in their armored vehicle with the hatch open, not moving. The Hamas fighter just walked up and dropped an IED in the open lid lmao
Just for context, there was an airstrike ordered nearby so SOP mandates infantry remounts into armored vehicles for protection against shrapnel.
With that being said, yeah, obviously people fucked up operationally, and they should have had some kind of situational awareness, but, they weren’t just like chilling. They were sheltering in place for a couple minutes.
With their lid open and no visibility on their surroundings?
I mean, you’re not going to have shrapnel entering it, shrapnel doesn’t generally have arcing fire lol or the likely hood is so low, why bother. However, like I said, idk what they were doing. Obviously there’s a lapse in situational awareness. I’m also not defending them lol just pointing out the obvious.
The real chad