The IDF announced today (Wednesday) that it “did not find a value failure in its functioning” of a walnut soldier whose weapon was stolen during a night navigation. The kidnapping of the weapon, because the soldier did not understand that he was in danger until they started attacking him. “
In a press release, the IDF spokesman said that “the conclusions of the investigation, all the evidence and the police investigation show that the fighter fought the attackers with all his might and acted offensively.”
The army revealed the details of the incident: “The investigation revealed that during a lone navigation, the fighter identified two suspicious civilians in the area who tried to contact him. “A long struggle, the fighter pulled the cartridge from the vest in order to step on his weapon. At that point, the suspects snatched the weapon and fled the scene, wounded.”
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The IDF updated that the soldier was wounded in the head and slightly injured, and his commanders arrived at the end of the incident, after calling them. The soldiers’ efforts to obtain the vehicle in which the suspects fled were unsuccessful.
The IDF Spokesman concluded by writing that “in summary, the Chief of Staff stated that this is an exceptional event that must be taught in all IDF units.”
The commander of the Walnut unit, A., sent a message to his fighters last week, in which he announced that “a walnut fighter who does not know how to defeat two people in a contact battle and snatch the weapon from him, cannot be a walnut fighter.”
A. continued in his statement and said that “even in combat, I will not receive a prisoner unless he is, God forbid, a body, I am sorry but this is a minimum standard in the unit.
The message conveyed by the commander of the Egoz unit to his subordinates (Photo: Private)On Sunday, the police announced that they had arrested two suspects in the robbery and kidnapping of the soldier, and the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth extended their detention for a week by two days. The detention of two other civilians suspected of aiding them has been extended until Thursday.
The suspects, according to the police in a press release, are 25-year-old residents of the Bedouin community in Ibtin in the north, who were arrested inside a hiding apartment near the Bedouin village of Zabidat in the Jordan Valley, with ammunition in their possession.