During his visit to the south, Defense Minister Galant met today (Sunday) with the reservists of the 11th Brigade, who had just left a round of combat in the Gaza Strip. The fighters, who were jumped on October 7 to the Golan Heights and after two months moved to fight in Gaza, are now being released – with their mission not yet completed.
One of the reservists, a resident of Kfar Blum in the Upper Galilee who was evacuated from his home, asked the minister when his family would be able to return home – to which Gallant replied that Israel had not yet exhausted the political process that would allow this. “We were in Gaza for three and a half months, but at the end it’s hard for us at home, it’s hard for us to go back. I’m not going back home, I don’t have a home – I’m not officially evacuated either,” said the reservist. “Everything I get from the army I give to the B&Bs. It’s really the hardest thing for the family, they don’t manage to live.”
“Give a chance for an agreement process” | The Minister of Defense with the fighters of the 11th Brigade Photography: Elad Malka
Gallant explained that the task of returning the residents of the north to their homes is of utmost importance, and that he is working to advance the process. “We are committed to restoring security to the residents of the north, we will not keep people as refugees in their country. We are trying to exhaust the processes by agreement, but we are preparing for a military alternative. We are given a chance, we prepare, prepare and strike hard every day. They have 200 dead and they do not tell “.
In addition, Minister Galant noted that the security system “is aware of the meaning of war in the north before dragging the country into it. We are giving a chance to the subject of an agreement process. If this does not happen, we will come to military action, I will not go into the details of it.”
“Preparing for a military alternative”. IDF documentation of an attack on targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon | Photo: IDF spokesman Another tense day in the northern sector
Today, the IDF attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon from the air and with artillery. This was after four rockets were fired at the IDF base in Ramim Ridge, a rocket weighing a quarter of a ton was launched into the Margaliot area and an anti-tank missile hit a house in Moshav Zerait. Also, a UAV that arrived from Syria Yort over Katzrin.
In the north, you hear all the time that the IDF is preparing and prioritizing the fighting in Gaza first, but no one thought it would take so long – despite the IDF’s many achievements against Hezbollah.
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