At least five terrorists were killed in the night between Sunday and Monday during an operation by the IDF and Shin Bet to arrest a Hamas squad that tried to carry out a shooting attack at Almog Junction last week. A., one of the fighters who participated in the activity, told Anat Davidov and Gideon Oko on 103FM this morning (Tuesday) about the action near Jericho and the dramatic moments.
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“I didn’t have time to sleep, I always have one eye open. You start a mission, finish it and go back to your routine as if nothing had happened. Everything is fine. I was informed that I was going to be arrested, for an activity, this is a service with male and female fighters together, our goal was to catch a certain person,” A said. “When we came to leave, they made a change in the 90th minute and said we were going to do AMLA scans, and this target was supposed to be Magellan and Dvedvan before me. It’s not the first time I’ve done IDF scans, we started moving towards the village, from Jericho to the refugee camp there, where the action took place. It was right inside the refugee camp, I had a bad feeling.”
“It was strange to me that everything is quiet here and no one throws a Molotov cocktail at you,” the warrior continued. “I’m used to people throwing or throwing stones. My MP led the way, and I was with my squad. As they told us to start unloading, suddenly shots started, a crazy mess started, the police officer announced that we ran into each other, and we started to take cover. The police officer took two shots on his vest, everything is fine with him of course.”
When asked if they knew the identity of the terrorists, A answered: “I personally didn’t know, we realized after we cleared them. We had such a good feeling that we caught the people we were looking for a whole week. The shootout lasted about 40 seconds, but it felt like an eternity. It’s really Like in an action movie, you go inside and there’s all this tension. A lot of people ask me if it’s scary and why I decided to become a fighter. Yes, it’s scary, in the end we’re human. My mother knows less about the whole thing about the arrests because I don’t prefer to share, I’m more I’m involving my father because he has a combat past, he was in the First Lebanon War.”
At the end she said: “I am the most strong supporter of women who will enlist in the war, we proved, the girls here, to everyone, that girls can do anything. I am the best supporter of female power. The fact is that my partner was a boy, and he knows I can trust him and he can trust me. Before arrest, When you train, it’s a whole day, they prepare you for battle procedures and prepare your equipment and give you exercises on how to get out and get in, how to treat the wounded.”
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Michal Kadosh, 103fm