These dramatic clips graphically demonstrate the intensity of the battle now raging between Israelis and Hamas in war-torn Gaza.
They revolve around one incident during the ground war within the enclave, when a squad of Israeli armored personnel carriers was ambushed by Hamas terrorists emerging from their tunnels and firing rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the vehicles and attempting to attach explosives.
But the Israelis called in airstrikes and artillery, as well as reinforcements against the attackers, and although they suffered injuries, they survived.
Video from inside one of the 63-ton APCs shows sweat glistening on the face of one of the crew as gunfire can be clearly heard outside.
Video and audio footage released by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shows the men of the elite Golani Brigade coming under fire from Hamas terrorists after being ambushed, calling on the radio for fire from other tanks or possibly drones to suppress from the air.
These dramatic clips graphically reveal the intensity of the battle now raging between Israelis and Hamas in war-torn Gaza
They revolve around one incident during the ground war within the enclave, when a team of Israeli armored personnel carriers was ambushed by Hamas terrorists.
Speaking from a ‘Namer’ (leopard) armored personnel carrier, which carries three crew members and nine infantry soldiers, the officer urgently asks: “We need you to come to us and kill anything outside the armored vehicles is located.’
The officer under fire, Lieutenant Colonel Tomer, commander of the brigade’s Battalion 13, tells his brigade commander, Colonel Peli, that his unit has suffered injuries from rockets.
He adds, “We are doing our best, and we are at war now, we are surviving here and we need your help. About.’
The full audio track continues: ‘Peli, this is Tomer, we are on the road south to ___, we have had a significant attack on us with rockets and terrorists coming towards us, we have wounded men, hard to say how many ,
“I need some suppressive fire to help us repel the terrorists,
“It seems the situation is calming down a bit, but we still need you to come to us and kill everything outside the armored vehicles. We are also getting machine gun fire on our vehicles.”
Perhaps not wanting to alarm his men, he adds, “It’s all good, the main thing is to clear this terrorist nest that’s here. We are doing our best, and we are at war now, we are surviving here and we need your help. About.
Peli replies to Tomer: ‘First of all, great, you are relaxed and you work excellently.’
Tomer replies: ‘Great, and I repeat: it seems that things are calming down here, most of the terrorists are dead, the attacks on us are slowing down,
“We are confident, please keep moving towards us and fire everything west and east of our route, on the south side of ___ in a few minutes it will be over and we can even start our mission tomorrow morning.”
Later, in a video (26 sec), Colonel Tomer tells the camera: ‘As we came to a stop, Hamas terrorists jumped out of the tunnels and surrounded us.
A video from inside one of the 63-ton APCs shows sweat glistening on the face of one of the crew as gunfire can be clearly heard outside
Video and audio footage released by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shows the men of the elite Golani Brigade under fire from Hamas terrorists
Speaking from a ‘Namer’ (leopard) armored personnel carrier, the officer urgently asks: ‘We need you to come to us and kill anything that is outside the armored vehicles’
‘They bombarded us with RPGs and tried to approach the Namers (armored vehicles) to attach explosives to them.
“Thanks to our quick reactions, we were able to kill some of them and push back the others, using air fire, artillery and mortars, and we stormed them with the armored vehicles.
“The result is that they are dead and we continue our ground war until victory.”
And in an even happier clip, Lieutenant N from the same unit tells the camera, “We’ve had a night of fighting and ended up in an ambush, fighting dozens of terrorists and killing them. We have almost no wounded soldiers.
“We had a good fight, the spirit and morale are good, and we are getting ready for the next fight… until victory.”
Only time will tell how many more battles these men will experience and what victory will look like.