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Unit 669 was founded in 1974 by Yoram Shachar and Avner Ilnai, in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when an ad hoc medevac unit made some 5000 extractions. Its initial mandate was to extract and provide initial medical treatment to downed (and possibly injured) pilots beyond lines. However, in later years the unit also participated in ...
Some of the military equipment developed locally have been: Small arms. Dror light machine gun. IWI Negev light machine gun. Uzi submachine gun. Uzi machine pistol. Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol. Jericho 941 semi-automatic pistol. BUL M-5 semi-automatic pistol.
The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF; Hebrew: צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵלTsva ha-Hagana le-Yisra'el ⓘ, lit.'The Army of the Defense for Israel' ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal ( צה״ל ), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the ...
The road to the hospital from Rafah is now unsafe: The United Nations says an Israeli tank fired on a marked U.N. vehicle on the road Monday, killing a U.N. security officer and wounding another.
Israel's Defense Ministry says roughly 3,000 members of the country's security forces have been wounded since Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly ...
Two more Palestinian men, injured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank last week, have told the BBC that Israeli soldiers forced them on to the bonnet of an army jeep and drove ...
The name "Merkava" was derived from the IDF's initial development program name. The tank was developed in the Merkava and Armored Combat Vehicles Division of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and most of its parts are manufactured in Israel. The Merkava was designed to provide maximum protection for its crew, and therefore its front armor was ...
July 2023 →. On 19 June 2023, Israeli soldiers and border police officers entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest two wanted suspects. This resulted in clashes between Palestinian gunmen from the Jenin Brigades and Israeli soldiers. The clash had led to seven Palestinian deaths and upwards of 90 Palestinians wounded; 8 wounded Israeli soldiers.