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Inside the IDF elite Egoz Unit: Northern guerrilla experts descend into Gaza tunnels
IDF Spokesman ^ | Dec 10, 2021 | NEWSRAEL

Posted on 12/09/2021 10:30:27 PM PST by JerusalemOne

The Egoz unit set up to emulate Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon and specialize in field warfare has recently changed its face and developed new capabilities in the face of the latest challenges. With a new and classified missile and upgraded intelligence capabilities, Walla! joins them in a unique training in the South.

The tanks entered the narrow street and a cloud of dust spread between the buildings.  The fighters of the Egoz unit, equipped with new protection and combat equipment from head to toe, advanced rapidly in a dark and narrow alley that simulates a refugee camp in Gaza.  The force split between the buildings.  The fighters aimed their rifles at any suspicious spot, window or passageway if a terrorist emerged from there.

The rapid progress up the street was made possible by night vision means for each fighter turning the night into a day and covering of tanks, snipers, and crew operating various aircraft in the air and aiming to reveal the enemy location in real time and aid in his attack.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; egozunit; gaza; hezbollah; idf; israel; lebanon

1 posted on 12/09/2021 10:30:27 PM PST by JerusalemOne
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To: JerusalemOne

What stopped you from posting the whole thing?


2 posted on 12/09/2021 11:10:36 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: JerusalemOne

The IDF has its faults and weaknesses, but it has exceptional capabilities across the military spectrum. This particular unit is no doubt the best of its type in the world. That it exists must strike fear in the hearts of the Palestinian terror leadership in that it is likely capable of finding and rooting them out, even in their deep hidey holes in Gaza.


3 posted on 12/09/2021 11:14:12 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: humblegunner

Inside the elite IDF Egoz Unit: Northern guerrilla experts descend into Gaza tunnels

Walla! News 09:30 04.12.2021 6 days ago

The Egoz unit set up to emulate Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon and specialize in field warfare has recently changed its face and developed new capabilities in the face of the latest challenges. With a new and classified missile and upgraded intelligence capabilities, Walla! joins them in a unique training in the South.

The tanks entered the narrow street and a cloud of dust spread between the buildings. The fighters of the Egoz unit, equipped with new protection and combat equipment from head to toe, advanced rapidly in a dark and narrow alley that simulates a refugee camp in Gaza. The force split between the buildings. The fighters aimed their rifles at any suspicious spot, window or passageway if a terrorist emerged from there.

The rapid progress up the street was made possible by night vision means for each fighter turning the night into a day and covering of tanks, snipers, and crew operating various aircraft in the air and aiming to reveal the enemy location in real time and aid in his attack.

The unit that sits away from the combat zone will be defined as the “brain” while marching. A staff body that analyzes all the information flowing from the field and various units and makes decisions for the commanders. This allows them to view recently taken videos, photos, talk over an encrypted contact at any point across the globe. While fighting the attack vehicals will advance with the forces and allow them to receive and transmit any classified information in real time.

Every few minutes the skimmer buzzed in the sky after gathering information about the next space and transferring it to the PDA of the unit commander, Lt. Gen. A. Between buildings until he located a good vantage point on the continuation of the street.

“For more than two days the fighters have been marching in the field. They had a lot of surprises and uncertainty, they will finish this long exercise in a few more days on their knees. There are almost no hours of sleep,” said Major E., the engineering officer of the commando brigade to which Egoz belongs. Because in the first phase of the exercise, Hamas “used” approach tunnels to surprise the fighters from behind.

“At the beginning of the exercise the enemy approached the wigs and attacked from behind. Wounded (simulated AB) who were evacuated by helicopter fell.” The following scenario involved a bomb blast, and suspicion of pulling a fighter into a tunnel. The force on the ground mapped the route of the tunnel and decided that there was no abducted soldier. A scenario that is very reminiscent of the abduction of a Golani Brigade fighter, Sgt. Oron Shaul, and the abduction of Lt. Hadar Goldin in Operation Eitan.

“The guiding principle for the team commander is: ‘Do not try to deal with any obstacle - bypass it. Soldiers understand that the area will be trapped. Never enter a house before firing a shell. This is an area where there should be no civilians but only terrorists. This is a combat zone,” explained an officer. A senior member of the commando brigade that accompanied the forces in the alley and saw them neutralized by rocket launchers. The warrior teams met in one of the houses and exchanged impressions of the next battle moves. Those who practiced them were cherry officers, it is impossible to say that there is no competition between the units.


4 posted on 12/10/2021 12:46:22 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo
Walla!

Voila!

Bloggers are illiterate thieves.

5 posted on 12/10/2021 1:06:04 AM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: humblegunner

This is AMERICA...speak SPANISH!


6 posted on 12/10/2021 2:15:43 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war in 1939 and 1941.)
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To: JerusalemOne

Ignore the blog pests.

What is ironic about them is that they never complain about the posting of links to such as CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, or a thousand other propaganda fake-news sites. Indeed, almost all of these fake news outlets have a policy to forbid the re-posting of full content. So only excerpts are allowed.

But the pests, small-minded bureaucrats, only focus on the independent blog producers from which we might actually learn something, from which we might get accurate information.

Relish the irony. Ignore the pests. Keep on posting your blog.


7 posted on 12/10/2021 4:15:01 AM PST by Blennos ( )
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To: Blennos

Thanks!


8 posted on 12/10/2021 5:08:22 AM PST by JerusalemOne
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To: Blennos

Indeed, almost all of these fake news outlets have a policy to forbid the re-posting of full content. So only excerpts are allowed.
***So on the blogpimping sites where excerpts are NOT required, FReepers ought to be posting the whole articles so as not to draw traffic away from FR.


9 posted on 12/10/2021 9:01:50 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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