Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad
Posted on 01/05/2009 5:56:58 PM PST by winoneforthegipper
Cleared for publication: Three IDF soldiers were killed and 20 others were injured, one critically and three seriously on Monday evening, in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza.
Among the fatalities were two officers and a soldier. Colonel Avi Peled, commander of the Golani Brigade sustained minor injuries in the incident.
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Prayer's up!
War always truly sucks.
God Bless Israel.
Death to Hamas.
War sucks, happened in Iraq too many times unfortunately. A damn shame
Just curious...will these be counted as “combat deaths”?
Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad
This must be the terrible incident they were hinting at some hours earlier.
God speed, soldiers. God bless and protect Israel.
Yes they are.
Friendly fire incidents are regrettable but they are a fact of warfare. It has been so since the dawn of time and always will be. That a soldier falls by his own side action is no less of a comment on his service than if the action were by the enemy. IMHO.
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