The Bizarre Episode On the Northern Border Yesterday

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2 September 2019

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The News on the Israeli Street

The Bizarre Episode On the Northern Border Yesterday

The scene at Rambam Hospital yesterday as an IDF helicopter landed. What do you think you are seeing?

Let’s begin at the beginning yesterday.

At around 4:05 pm,Hezbollah finally decided to retaliate for the drone attacks on their headquarters in Dahiya. 

From this point on, the events are shrouded in confusion.

Did they fire anti-tank missiles or anti-aircraft missiles? After going back and forth on this through the early evening, the IDF finally settled on anti-tank missiles. How many were fired? The final story was that four were fired.

What did Hezbollah shoot at?
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Apparently several targets: “undescribed” IDF facilities near Avivam, and a moving IDF vehicle–alternately described as an armored personnel carrier and a medical ambulance.

What did they hit?

Apparently, everything they shot at.

However, the story of the ambulance is where the bizarre aspect of this entire tale begins. According to Hezbollah, they had the ambulance in their missile sights, but saw an Israeli-Ethiopian soldier inside along with another soldier. So they decided to intentionally miss because of the “brown soldier” (their words). Then when the missed missile exploded nearby, they saw the IDF soldiers leave the vehicle and then they hit it.

This version of events has been neither confirmed or denied by the IDF.

At this point, an IDF helicopter swooped in and picked up two apparently wounded soldiers and flew them to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. The picture of one of the soldiers being taken to the hospital is what you see above.

Except the IDF and government officials were quick to say that it all never happened. There were no wounded soldiers, and no soldiers were taken to Rambam.

Why? You may recall that in the leadup to this Hezbollah attack everyone from PM Netanyahu to IDF Chief Kochavi said that if any IDF soldier sustained even one scratch on their heads from a Hezbollah attack, the IDF would take drastic action.

But the story becomes even more bizarre.

By early evening, the IDF began disseminating that it was all a sham–a staged sham that the IDF had concocted in advance to deceive Hezbollah. The IDF planners supposedly thought that if Hezbollah though it had inflicted “sufficient casualties” it would not attack further.

To put it a different way, according to the IDF, the whole episode with the soldiers was a deliberate ruse to let Hezbollah save face by enabling them to think that soldiers had been wounded.

Obviously, this story just doesn’t wash.

If the point was to let Hezbollah save face and/or deter further Hezbollah action, imagine the egg on Hezbollah’s face when they discovered the truth yesterday evening. If anything, knowing that it had been egregiously and hilariously deceived would have the effect of enraging them into further action.

And what about those two soldiers; can’t we find out the truth of what happened from them?

Well . . . one report has it that one soldier was “lightly wounded” and released while the other soldier was “just” suffering from shock and was also released.

Who knows if this is true or not?

Bizarre. Just totally bizarre.

Addendum: Your humble servant is currently sitting in a lovely little cafe overlooking the Kineret (Sea of Galilee). I am on my way north to see for myself the area where the attacks took place yesterday.  More tomorrow.