Maintain morality: The IDF spokesman published this evening (Friday) a special event that occurred during Operation “Dawn”, when during an attack by the tank battalion on observation posts of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory, a girl was identified in the area of one of the posts that was to be attacked. was canceled and the place was shelled afterwards.
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Major B, who commanded the event, said that “upon receiving the order to fire to destroy the jihad position, the tank commander spotted a little girl climbing the ladder of the position. At that time I ordered the tank commander to cease fire. The position was completely destroyed after a few minutes without harming those not involved.’
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The identification of the girl on the Islamic Jihad position (photo: courtesy of the IDF spokesperson)
As I recall, this is another case from the last operation in Gaza in which the IDF avoided harming civilians, after on the third day of the operation a document was published in which IDF forces are heard canceling an attack due to being uninvolved in the incident. “During the thwarting of Khaled Mansour, children were identified in the area of the attack and therefore the attack was postponed several times. Later, when the children were not present in the area, the attack was carried out successfully and the senior Palestinian was foiled,” the IDF spokesperson said.