Smoke billows from the Gaza Strip as an
Israeli army tank monitors the area on the southern Israel-Gaza border
during an exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and Israeli
troops Photo: AFP/Getty Images
It's a very dark day whenever even one Israeli soldier is killed and today is a dark day as an IDF Sergeant was killed when his unit responded to a Pali terrorist breaching the fence from Gaza into Israel - the terrorist killed the IDF soldier and then was killed in the return fire (I'm not going to hazard a guess as to how many bullet holes are in the body of the terrorist).
From the report at The Telegraph:
Shielded by a layer of heavy fog, Ahmed abu Nasser, 22, managed to cut through the heavily guarded border-fence shortly before 5am and cross over into Israel. The account of events provided by the Israeli military is that a unit from Israel’s ‘Golani’ brigade sped to the site and approached the Palestinian who opened fire, killing staff sergeant Netanel Moshiashvili a 21 year-old from the southern Israeli city of Ashqelon. Abu Nasser, who lived in the border village of Abassan, was killed in the return fire.
The exchange was followed by aircraft and tank fire into the Gaza Strip from the Israel, described by military sources as “warning shots”.
A Gaza radio station with tight links to the Islamic Jihad, an increasingly powerful militant group in the Palestinian enclave responsible for the majority of rocket fire into Israel, claimed Nasser was acting for the faction. The Israeli military also claim Abu Nasser was an Islamic Jihad militant but Abu Ahmad, an Islamic Jihad spokesperson, has denied any affiliation.
Every single day of the year the Israelis have to be on guard for this -if that IDF unit hadn't responded as quickly as they had, this piece of shit would have been loose inside of Israel with a weapon and there could have been dozens of civilians attacked and either killed or wounded.
Prayers please for the family of Netanel Moshiashvili - he gave his life for his people, for Israel, for the Heavenly Father.
Israeli soldier and Palestinian die in Gaza border shootout
Shielded by a layer of heavy fog, Ahmed abu Nasser, 22, managed to cut through the heavily guarded border-fence shortly before 5am and cross over into Israel. The account of events provided by the Israeli military is that a unit from Israel’s ‘Golani’ brigade sped to the site and approached the Palestinian who opened fire, killing staff sergeant Netanel Moshiashvili a 21 year-old from the southern Israeli city of Ashqelon. Abu Nasser, who lived in the border village of Abassan, was killed in the return fire.
The exchange was followed by aircraft and tank fire into the Gaza Strip from the Israel, described by military sources as “warning shots”.
A Gaza radio station with tight links to the Islamic Jihad, an increasingly powerful militant group in the Palestinian enclave responsible for the majority of rocket fire into Israel, claimed Nasser was acting for the faction. The Israeli military also claim Abu Nasser was an Islamic Jihad militant but Abu Ahmad, an Islamic Jihad spokesperson, has denied any affiliation.
Following the release of staff sergeant Gilad Shalit, seized by Palestinian militants while on patrol along the Gaza border in 2007 and held captive for five years, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, Islamic militants in Gaza threatened to wage more kidnap attempts to secure the release of the remaining Palestinian political prisoners. "Israel will retaliate fiercely against any abduction of a soldier of the defence army in future just like what happened to Gilad Shalit," a "senior" political source was quoted as saying in December last year.
Major Arye Shalicar, spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force said, said while violent exchanges are a weekly if not daily occurrence on the border and the event may not spark an escalation in the conflict, the Israeli army is ready and prepared to do whatever is necessary ‘to defend our citizens’.
“This got time, the situation got out of control because the terrorist succeeded in cutting through our fence, with very sophisticated equipment, and entering Israel with live ammunition,” Major Shalicar said.
“We don’t know if he crossed the border to commit a suicide bombing or to kidnap a soldier. An escalation of violence in not our aim but as today proves, we have to be ready for any scenario. Are troops are there and ready because if one of these men succeeds in entering Israel, we don’t know what will happen.”
Several hours after the gun battle, the Israeli air-force targeted militant cell in the southern Gaza Strip who the claim were preparing to launch a rocket into Israel. Palestinian medics report that four people were injured, two critically, in strikes on southern Gaza, which witnesses say hit an auto-rickshaw.
A statement issued by the IDF on Friday morning read: “The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians or IDF soldiers, and will operate against anyone who uses terror against the State of Israel. The Hamas terror organization is solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip.”
Staff sergeant Moshiashvili was due to be buried at noon on Friday in a military cemetery in Ashqelon
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